‘North Must Take United Stand On Security, Economy’

To combat the menace of insecurity ravaging the northbound and retool the region’s economy, its leaders indispensable talk with 1 voice, Governor Dauda Lawal has said.

Governor Lawal spoke, yesterday, successful Abuja, erstwhile helium chaired the archetypal time of the Northern Nigeria Investment and Industrialisation Summit.

Governor Lawal commended the Northern Elders Forum for its accordant committedness to the advancement of the Northern portion noting that “By convening this gathering nether the taxable ‘Unlocking Strategic Opportunities,’ you person erstwhile again demonstrated a clear-eyed absorption connected our corporate future.

“The prime of sectors—Mining, Agriculture, and Power—is not accidental. It is simply a strategical diagnosis of the halfway pillars upon which the prosperity of Northern Nigeria indispensable beryllium built. In Zamfara, we are alert of the paradox we face: a onshore blessed with immense mineral wealthiness and immense arable land, yet our radical person not afloat reaped the dividends of these endowments.

“The cardinal question for america arsenic leaders is not what needs to beryllium done, but however we tin collectively crook imaginable into prosperity. To pull indispensable concern and industrialize our portion for the nation’s benefit, we indispensable determination beyond rhetoric and follow a caller attack of collaboration.”

Governor Lawal further stressed that a harmless North is simply a bankable North, a portion that leaders crossed the 19 Northern States indispensable deepen collaboration beyond politics.

“We indispensable collectively unafraid radical and investments. Security is the cardinal prerequisite for immoderate meaningful development. Investors, some home and international, are not philanthropists; they are realists. They volition not perpetrate superior wherever it is not safe. We indispensable integrate our information architectures, stock quality successful real-time, and foster greater assemblage policing to make a unafraid and predictable environment.

“In Zamfara, our committedness is clear. We are moving from a past of informality and illegality successful the mining assemblage to a authorities of formalization, regulation, and worth addition. We are revitalizing our cultivation assemblage by promoting mechanization, agro-processing, and entree to credit. And we are creating the unafraid and unchangeable situation that is the bedrock of it all.

“My telephone to enactment contiguous is for a Northern Nigerian Economic Compact—a binding committedness among the 19 states to talk with 1 dependable connected information and economical matters. Create a Single Window for large investors looking to bash concern crossed the region. Co-invest successful captious infrastructure similar power, rail, and fibre optics that link our states.”

A connection by the governor’s spokesperson, Sulaiman Bala Idris, disclosed that the concern acme with the taxable ‘Unlocking Strategic Opportunities’ was organized by the Northern Elders Forum, led by Professor Ango Abdullahi.