According to Vanguard newspaper, Vice President Kashim Shettima emphasized the importance of re-evaluating the situation in the North and developing strong strategies to improve society. He made these remarks during a meeting with the President of the Coalition of Northern States Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (CONSCCIMA), Mallam Dalhatu Abubakar, at his office in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He said, “It is imperative for the north to embark on the re-strategizing and re-engineering of the region in order to reposition it for accelerated development”
The Vice President, who was speaking to the leading industrialists and agents of change from the North, stated that “most of the issues highlighted by the President of CONSCCIMA are very poignant as these are issues that touch the lives and wellbeing of our people.”
Vice President Shettima praised the CONSCCIMA leadership for their dedication to promoting the growth of the northern region through different industrial initiatives. These projects have the potential to foster development by collaborating with the Federal Government.
He observed that any society that seeks to achieve economic development must cultivate peace and stability, restating that “there can never be development without peace and there can never be peace without development.”
He described President Bola Tinubu as a visionary and committed democrat for his passion to seek and achieve development through addressing the challenges of insecurity in the North especially in the North-west through the Pulaku initiative.
Explaining the initiative, he said “the Pulaku initiative is a robust solution towards addressing the challenges in the North-West. It is a solution aimed at addressing the challenges of armed banditry, kidnapping and the situation in the North-West which cannot be divorced from the issue of governance.”
“Poor governance has a direct bearing on what we are harvesting in the North-West,” he stressed.
Earlier in his remarks, the leader of the delegation, Mallam Abubakar, expressed the readiness of its organisation to seek partnership with the Federal Government towards the revitalization of the economy in the North.
He emphasized several initiatives that can stimulate the economy of the Northern region, such as revitalizing existing industries and establishing new ones, creating pharmaceutical companies, constructing modular refineries, replenishing the Lake Chad, finishing the Mambila Power project and other power-related ventures, and acquiring the Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemicals Company.
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