Buhari sets up commission on ease of doing business ---Osinbajo
(Nigeria) Federal Government has emphasized the need for
ease of doing business in the country just as President Muhammadu Buhari has
approved the formation of a Presidential Commission on the matter, according to
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN.
“President Buhari has approved a high-powered commission to
work on the issues around the ease of doing business in the country," the
Vice President announced while presiding
over the first Quarterly Consultation between the presidency and the
Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN.
Prof. Osinbajo said, “The commission will have a secretariat
to be headed by a private sector professional," who will be appointed to
lead the secretariat of the presidential commission that will now pay even
greater attention and focus to the issues of doing business in the country.
At the consultation MAN
raised among many concerns, their worries about cases of multiple
taxation, and in response the Vice President promised to follow -up on the
matter, adding that "one of the key issues the presidential commission
which I am heading would be looking at
is the case of multiple taxation."
He added that this is also an issue that the Ministry of
Trade and Investment is also actively engaged with.
At the end of the meeting, the President of MAN, Dr. Frank Jacobs, while speaking with State House Correspondents expressed concern
about the acts of vandalism regarding the nation's oil and gas installations
describing such as economic sabotage.
According to him, while “the association is happy about what
the Federal Government is doing, but we are concerned about what is happening
in the Niger Delta area which is a kind of sabotaging the economic activities
of government and therefore we want to call on them to lay down their arms in
the interest of the country.”
He called on the militants to join hands with government and
move the country forward. The MAN president stated that diversification of the
economy is the best way to go now given what is happening in the
internationally.
He said the association is "keying" into
government policy in terms of diversification of the economy by doing their
best to increase the capacity of production.
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