KNSG hails SMEDAN over conference hosting right
KANO state government has commended the Director-General, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) for choosing Kano as venue for public presentation of the regional conference on National Policy on micro, small and medium enterprises.
The commendation was made by the state governor, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, who was represented by the commissioner for commerce, industry and cooperatives, Alhaji Ahmad Ibrahim Yakasai during the opening ceremony of the public presentation, held at Durbar Hotel, Kano.
Malam Shekarau disclosed that new industrial estates have been proposed in various parts of the state to provide enabling environment for the establishment of new industries.
The governor further disclosed that government is ready to collaborate with SMEDAN to ensure that government’s objectives in the area of wealth and poverty reduction are achieved.
He pointed out that since the assumption of the present administration, it has embarked on a number of programmes aimed at increasing and sustaining the growth of entrepreneurship, adding that the programmes include cottage industries, loan scheme, artisan loan scheme, enterprise support etc.
He then urged them to task themselves so as to give the nation a workable policy document that will enthrone a vibrant SME’s sub-sector and wished them a successful deliberation.
Earlier, the Director General, Small and Medium Enterprise Development Agency of Nigeria, Mrs. Modupe Adelaja had commended the governor of Kano state for accepting to host the presentation in Kano.
Mrs. Adelaja stated that the choice of Kano is not only appropriate, given its commercial antecedents, strategic and significant but the most populous state in Nigeria.
The director-general further stated that, the agency had in 2005, commissioned a high level study of Kano leather cluster with the aim of upgrading its status.
Also speaking, the Special Adviser to the President on Manufactoring and Private Sector, Alhaji Abdulkadir Ahmad, expressed satisfaction with she Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between SMEDAN and Kano state government.
The MoU was later signed by the commissioner of commerce, industry and cooperatives on behalf of she state government and on the other hand by the director general, SMEDAN on behalf of her agency.