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By Chinedu Adonu
The Enugu State governor, Dr. Peter Mbah, made this known during the authoritative opening of a starring concern and fiscal services firm, Afrinvest’s bureau successful Enugu.
The Enugu State Government has reiterated its committedness to strengthening Igbo-owned enterprises and ensuring semipermanent concern sustainability.
Representing Governor Peter Mbah astatine the inauguration, the Deputy Governor, Ifeanyi Ossai, welcomed Afrinvest to Enugu and described the firm’s accomplishment arsenic “the opening of galore bully things to come.”
“Your estimation has travelled farther than you. For us, it is peculiarly breathtaking that you are present due to the fact that of the scope of services Afrinvest provides,” Ossai said. “We are putting successful spot the indispensable infrastructure to pull investments specified arsenic this. But businesses cannot thrive successful an situation wherever the enactment services that thrust businesses bash not exist, and that is wherefore your beingness present matters.”
Ossai stressed that Afrinvest’s expertise would assistance Igbo entrepreneurs physique enduring institutions alternatively than personality-driven ventures.
“Most of the businesses we grew up knowing could not transcend from the procreation that established them to the adjacent due to the fact that we Igbo radical are predominantly radical with precise beardown personalities. Everybody wants to person an ‘Ifeanyi Ossai Nigeria Limited,’” helium said.
Speaking earlier, the Group Managing Director of Afrinvest, Dr. Ike Chioke, said the determination to found a beingness successful Enugu was inspired by Governor Mbah’s efforts to marque the authorities much business-friendly and charismatic to investors.
“We’ve ever had our eyes connected Enugu. We had planned to travel into Enugu 3 years agone during the medication of erstwhile politician Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, but it did not materialise. But erstwhile Peter came connected committee and rapidly began to alteration Enugu and marque it much concern and capitalist friendly, that urgency to unfastened an Enugu bureau increased,” helium said.
Chioke described the determination arsenic portion of Afrinvest’s “aku ruo uno” (think home) philosophy, saying the steadfast was bringing implicit 30 years of expertise successful concern banking, plus management, securities trading, trusteeship, consulting, research, fintech, and microfinance services to the region.
“With america here, Enugu radical cannot accidental they didn’t person entree to adept fiscal advice. All excessively often, we spot that Enugu has precise palmy entrepreneurs who physique large businesses and adjacent grow beyond Nigeria, but erstwhile the laminitis dies, the concern collapses. Part of those problems are governance and strategy — immoderate of which is the expertise we bring,” helium explained.
Citing the illustration of the once-thriving Ekene Dili Chukwu Transport Company, which collapsed aft the decease of its founder, Chioke lamented the deficiency of concern continuity civilization among Igbo entrepreneurs.
“There are galore specified businesses that died due to the fact that their proprietors died. What we are saying is that determination are standardised ways of ensuring concern continuity and of raising superior for your business. There are structured ways of hiring the close radical for your business,” helium said.
He added that Afrinvest’s beingness successful Enugu would assistance section entrepreneurs larn however to physique businesses that endure crossed generations.
“That wealthiness of expertise which we regular supply Nigerians successful the occidental and bluish regions of the state is what we are gladly bringing to Enugu State. The essence is that our clients present volition recognize what it takes to physique a concern for the agelong word and guarantee continuity,” helium said.
Chioke noted that the determination to unfastened the Enugu bureau was a committee solution leveraging existing relationships successful the state.
“We felt we could leverage relationships we already person successful Enugu, 1 of which is Rangers International Football Club, whose shirts we began sponsoring successful 2023,” helium added.
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