President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, December 21, inaugurated the first African quality assurance centre in Sagamu, Ogun state.
Buhari noted that the centre would give confidence to producers and manufacturers that raw materials from Nigeria were of the highest acceptable quality.
The president, while speaking at the inauguration, stated that the centre would help in job creation, and address unemployment challenges.
Buhari said that, “This centre will improve domestic consumption as our priority is to protect the lives and well-being of our people by ensuring the quality of what they consume.
“This is in line with the federal government policy of growing what we eat and eating what we grow.
“Quality assurance places us on the right footing as we continue to drive Nigeria’s industrialisation,” he added.
In his remarks, the Ogun state governor, Dapo Abiodun, said that the opening of the quality assurance centre was a significant representation of government commitment to the diversify the nation’s economy from the over reliance on crude oil, The Punch reports.
Abiodun said that, “We are sincerely proud to be part of this success story.
“Our vision is to give Ogun state focused and qualitative governance and to create the enabling environment for a public- private sector partnership, which is fundamental to the creation of an enduring economic development and individual prosperity of the people of Ogun.
“For us in Ogun state, we know the strategic importance of agriculture in the economic development of Nigeria.
“Our main objectives in the agricultural sector include food security, agro value-chain development and agro-industrial transformation.
“Developing and leveraging on our agricultural sector will create employment generation, poverty alleviation, increased export and foreign exchange earnings,” he added .
The governor said that his administration, since inception, had focused on creating an enabling environment through the implementation of various business-friendly reforms like the establishment of the Ogun state investment promotion agency, enactment of the public private partnership law and the establishment of the public private partnership office, to provide a robust regulatory framework for private sector engagement.
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