(l-r) The Director, Inland Transport Services Department, Nigerian Shippers’ Council, Mrs Ify Okolue; Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer, Barrister Pius Ukeyima Akutah; Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun; Director, Legal Services, Alhaji Bala Saleh; Deputy Director, South West zone (Ibadan), Alhaji Garba Mohammed, during a visit to the Governor in Abeokuta, on Monday
By Nudoiba Ojen
THE Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council, Barrister Ukeyima Akutah, has said that Ogun State is leading the rest of the country in the ongoing industrial revolution embarked upon by the Federal Government.
Akutah said this was based on the remarkable level of the Ease of Doing Business Index in Ogun State.
The NSC boss spoke on Monday when he led a delegation of the Council to the Governor’s Office at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.
He said that this is in tandem with the policy statement of President Ahmed Tinubu-led administration to change the old system of production and make the country more industrialized to the level of appreciable prosperity and job creation.
Akutah added that the efforts of the Ogun State Government in the area of infrastructural development had enhanced industrial growth, thereby complementing the strides of the Federal Government towards sustainable transformation and industrialization.
The delegation, which comprised directors and other heads of units in the agency, also presented an Outlined Certificate of Compliance to the Governor on the Inland Dry Port located in the Papalanto area of the state, which was flagged off recently by the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Alhaji Adegboyega Oyetola.
Akutah further commended the governor for his determination to raise the bar of business activities in the state and develop critical infrastructure as a way of opening the state for an array of productive activities.
“We commend you and your team for being consistent with infrastructural development in all sectors of the state’s economy. One of those infrastructures is the Gateway International Agro-cargo Airport, as well as the Inland Dry Port for which we are presenting its Certificate of Compliance to you today.
“Obviously, you have demonstrated capacity and quality leadership by all standards, and your state is piloting the ongoing industrial revolution in Nigeria as conceived by President Bola Tinubu,” Akutah said.
Governor Dapo Abiodun commended the delegation for the visit and for granting the Certificate of Compliance for the take-off of the Papalanto Inland Dry Port, saying it was a significant step in the quest for the establishment of the port.
The governor described the Papalanto Inland Dry Port as a strategic port of operation aimed at decongesting the Lagos Ports and boosting industrial activities in Ogun State, which has the highest number of industries in Nigeria.
He explained that through the concept of the Multi-modal Transportation System adopted by his administration upon assumption of office, the Inland Dry Port would be an efficient mechanism for the industrial revolution embarked upon by the Federal Government.
