President Muhammadu Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari says it is heart-warming that more Nigerians are beginning to show appreciation towards the implementation of policies and projects of the Federal Government.
President Muhammadu Buhari said this during a meeting with the leadership of Kano Traders Association led by the Chairman of Kanti Kwari Traders Association, Alhaji Ahmed Sani, in Daura, Katsina.
President Muhammadu Buhari pledged that his administration would not relent in doing the necessary, to create jobs, expand trade and encourage greater productivity.
He reinstated the Government Enterprises and Empowerment Programme (GEEP) and the CBN Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP), more traders and farmers had expanded their trade and increased food production, adding that the GEEP had provided free interest loans to farmers while the N40 billion ABP targets rice farmers across the country to boost their production.
The President promised to look into the concerns of the traders on the GEEP programme as well as the influx and domice of foreigners in the retail sector.
Sani commended the President for reviving the $2.8 billon Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano gas pipeline, which was abandoned by the previous administration due to corruption and mismanagement.
The market leader also applauded the Buhari administration for the ongoing works at river ports in Baro, Niger State, Lokoja, Kogi State and Oguta in Imo State which were abandoned for about a decade but would now be completed before May 2019.
‘‘It is also another gesture of Mr President in fulfilling his promise to end fuel problem in Nigeria by signing the Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment of a new 150,000 barrels per day refinery in Katsina State,” Sani said.