Dangote extols Nigerians’ perseverance, canvasses for agric resurgence

The President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote has commended Nigerians for their resilience and perseverance in the face of prevailing economic challenges, while stressing the need for Nigerians to return to agriculture.

 

Dangote who stated this while addressing a group of small and medium scale enterprises in Lagos, on the challenges faced in the country stressed the need to become a producing nation and reduce importation.

 

According to him, “We need to produce what we consume as opposed to importation, which takes away our forex. 

 

We import just anything and the reality is dawn on us now that we have to change this habit, this is why the federal government has been emphasizing the need to go back to agriculture and total manufacturing so that we also can produce what we need and even export rather than import.”

 

He furthered that the nation has abundant raw materials to produce and did not need to import of some of these products.

 

Expressing confidence that the sacrifices made by the citizens would see the country out of the woods the business mogul urged the people to cooperate with the government in bringing Nigeria back to a path of sufficiency and economic buoyancy.

 

Vanguard reports that the business mogul had indicated that his new $12 billion three in one project, the refinery, petrochemical and fertilizer plants currently under construction would create a minimum of 235,000 new jobs, both direct and indirect jobs, as it becomes operational in the first quarter of 2019.