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The need to return Kaduna state to its pride of place as a competitive business and industrial hub with attendant benefits to the citizens through the upgrade of infrastructure which has multiplying effects towards increased job creation, poverty reduction and wealth spread is necessary more than ever before; especially as the state’s population increases, next only to megacities like Kano and Lagos. Kaduna’s population was over 6.
Conversely, the Kaduna state government does not have the huge resources required to implement and operate the proposed infrastructure development projects. Therefore, it was impressive that the current government understood the need to tow international best practice lines of exploring various non-budgetary financing options. Budget ; public private partnership and other public sources.
Secondly, as a seasoned politician and engineer, the governor understands the need to effectively tap into the infrastructural opportunities. Under his watch in the last year, he has been able to prioritise international collaboration, and private sector growth, encourage entrepreneurship, empowerment and job-creating programmes, promote vocational and technology skills acquisition, enhance ease of doing business, boost trade and investment and enhance transparency.
In line with the governor’s priority to give the state infrastructural facelift, strategic inputs have been put in place to fill realistic gaps related to the rapid completion of ongoing projects handled by various MDAs across the state in the form of task-based interventions and multi-pronged, people-oriented projects.
Agriculture infrastructure is also one of the mainstays of the state and a major growth driver. The administration is addressing inadequate rural road networks through the rural transformation initiatives, to enable effective movement of farm produce from the farm gate to the market. Also, limited silos and cold rooms or even processing centres for effective storage and processing of farm produce which often leads to huge post-harvest losses are in the pipeline for holistic approach.
Moving further, the information & communication technology infrastructure needs to have enhanced leverage and young entrepreneurs should be given more encouragement to tap into e-commerce platforms, online marketplaces, and digital payment systems, enabling them to reach a broader customer base and improve their business viability.
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