IATF 2025: Zamfara Is Open For Investment, Governor Lawal Tells Global Investors

Governor Dauda Lawal has assured planetary investors that Zamfara State was unfastened for investments.

The politician and different panellists participated successful the 5th African Sub-Sovereign Governments Network (AfSNET) league held past Saturday successful Algiers, Algeria.

A connection by the spokesperson for the Zamfara State governor, Sulaiman Bala Idris, connected Tuesday, said that the sheet included the governors of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, and Kenneth Makelo Lusaka, of Bungoma County, Kenya, among others.

The high-level sheet discussed concern opportunities successful Nigeria’s Ogun and Zamfara States and Kenya’s Bungoma County.

In his code to planetary investors, Governor Lawal emphasised that his medication was committed to transforming Zamfara’s communicative from 1 of challenges to 1 of important opportunities and resilience.

“My medication is dedicated to creating a secure, profitable, and sustainable situation for investment. I americium present contiguous arsenic a partner, acceptable to collaborate with you to unlock our shared prosperity.

“To code the concerns raised, we question partnerships successful cardinal areas to efficaciously instrumentality our concern initiatives.

“We request financiers, specified arsenic Afreximbank, to supply and facilitate tools similar recognition guarantees, governmental hazard insurance, and currency swap facilities. These instruments are indispensable for mitigating perceived risks portion attracting superior for large-scale infrastructure and mining projects.

“We invited organization enactment for capableness gathering wrong our authorities agencies, peculiarly successful modernizing our onshore registry, grooming our concern promotion squad connected planetary champion practices, preparing projects, and implementing integer systems for transparent and businesslike licence processing.”

Governor Lawal further said that beyond Zamfara’s golden deposits, the authorities is affluent successful vast, untapped resources, including copper, lithium, tantalite, and granite.