Governor, Nasiru El-Rufai
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The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Monday,
said the state has attracted more than $800 million of local and
foreign investments since 2016.
The Government made the remark during his opening presentation
at the fifth edition of his administration’s economic and
investment summit, KadInvest.
The Governor also said the state has had investment
announcements of over $2.1 billion in 2020, far ahead of Lagos and
any other state in the country.
El-Rufai said his administration’s focus was to enable the
private sector to create jobs.
“We want to make Kaduna the state of choice for investment
choice,” he said.
“We have been able to facilitate these investments by the
creation of a one-stop shop called the Kaduna Investment Promotion
Agency chaired by the Deputy Governor, with His Royal Highness, the
former Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, as the Vice-Chairman,
and our commissioners as members, to operationalise and ensure the
implementation of our Ease of Doing business charter.”
The Governor noted that in 2014, Kaduna was ranked by the World
Bank as the 24th state, out of 36 states and the FCT, in the Ease
of Doing business metric.
“By 2018, we had become number one,” he said.
He said the summit is designed to showcase Kaduna, to show our
progress on an annual basis, and attract investors.