The Federal Executive Council FEC has approved the setting up of the Presidential Council on Industrial Revitalisation roadmap, to be chaired by President Bola Tinubu with 10 subcommittees.
Addressing State House Correspondents on the new council and its duties, the Industry, Trade and Investment, Doris Uzoka-Anite, said the subcommittees are to consider all the policies within different ministries, as well as the Ministry of Industry, trade and Investment.
She said: “We have a lot of policies, frameworks and guidelines that should help to revitalize the industries within these different ministries and agencies. And we’re supposed to collaborate and come up with a single roadmap for each of these subcommittees or each of these roadmaps. And that is geared towards developing the full industrial revival of the economy in line with the eight-point agenda of Mr President.
“At the end of this, we expect to see a boost in investment coming into the different industrial sectors.
We expect to see a boost in job creation and employment and a general increase in our indices, especially our GDP growth rates, which were said to be growing from 3.5% hopefully to 7%. And the GDP base of about 1 trillion which is in line with Mr. President’s vision.
“It is actually because of how to actualize this that we came up with a roadmap to stimulate industrial growth, especially catalyzing SME growth and in the whole industrial sectors.”
The Sub Committees include, “ Subcommittee on Consumer Credit, Subcommittee on Commodity Exchange, Subcommittee on heavy industries and steel development, and Subcommittee on trade facilitation and ease of doing business.
Others are the Subcommittee on licensing and certification of artisans, Subcommittee on trade facilitation and realization, Subcommittee on mining and solid minerals, Subcommittee on oil and gas and Subcommittee on Creative Industries.”
Uzoka-Anite added that the subcommittees on defence, industries and pharmaceuticals were stepped down.
The minister further disclosed that the council also approved the setup of the committee to review the Free Trade Zone setup.
According to her, the committee is to “look at the setup, look at incentives, look at the laws and the reforms and come up with reforms that will help to stimulate and catalyze the economic benefits of the free trade zones and special economic zones.”
Dominica Nwabufo
