Do Business, Not Marriages With SABER Funds, Gov Lawal Tells Beneficiaries

Zamfara State politician Dauda Lawal has cautioned beneficiaries of the State Action connected Business and Employment Reforms (SABER) funds to transmission the enactment into entrepreneurship and wealthiness instauration alternatively than marrying other wives and incurring different frivolous expenses.

The politician spoke successful Zamfara yesterday during the authoritative flag-off of the programme successful Gusau.

He described SABER arsenic a caller section successful Zamfara State’s history, stressing that it was not simply a backing inaugural but a reaffirmation of the state’s unwavering resoluteness to alteration itself into a exemplary of reform, transparency, and shared prosperity.

According to him, the SABER programme, supported by the World Bank with backing betwixt $20 cardinal and $52 cardinal from 2022 to 2026, is designed to dismantle barriers to investment, stimulate backstage enterprise, and make sustainable jobs.

He said it is being coordinated by the Ministry of Budget and Planning alongside cardinal agencies specified arsenic Commerce and Industry, ZAGIS, Finance, Housing, Justice, Agriculture, ZIDA, and the Internal Revenue Service.

“This programme is anchored connected subject and results, not promises. We person embraced the reforms with determination and delivered results with integrity.

“Zamfara met each eligibility criteria nether World Bank guidelines for 2023 and 2024, which enabled america to unafraid $9 cardinal by June 2025. This is not charity, it is the reward of our performance, discipline, and accountability.”

Lawal stated that the programme had already recorded achievements, including the digitisation of implicit 16,000 onshore registry files, streamlined entree to Certificates of Occupancy, and the constitution of SABER desks crossed captious sectors.

He added that Zamfara had improved its gross illustration from N90 cardinal astatine the clip his medication took implicit to implicit N2.5 cardinal presently.

“Transparency present defines our taxation system. We are gathering a estimation for progress, resilience, reforms, and results. Very soon you volition statesman to spot the inflow of businesses into Zamfara.”

The politician announced that disbursement would chopped crossed the state’s micro, small, medium, and ample businesses, explaining that thousands of beneficiaries had been cautiously selected successful collaboration with authorities institutions and the backstage assemblage to guarantee fairness and impact.

He assured that funds amounting to astir N1.1 cardinal were acceptable for contiguous release, with beneficiaries expected to commencement receiving enactment without delay.

“This wealth is to empower you. Please, bash not spell and wed an further wife. Do business, marque wealth first. If you marque money, past you tin wed arsenic overmuch arsenic you want.”