By In what is the result of painstaking efforts towards industrialising Ogun State, the Governor held the groundbreaking of the development of the $400million, first phase of the Ogun Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone, SAPZ.
“This project will be aptly complemented by the Ogun Agro-Cargo Airport, the deep sea port, Nigeria’s biggest presence of the Nigeria Customs Service and our takeaways from the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, AfCFTA.” He said.
Dapo Abiodun, governor of Ogun, says the state’s Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone (SAPZ) will generate over 20,000 direct jobs.
In a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, Abiodun said the $400 million SAPZ project, sited at the Agro-Cargo Airport in Ilisan-Remo, will be executed by the state government in partnership with Arise Integrated Industrial Platforms.
He said the decision by his administration to encourage the push factor from Lagos to Ogun instigated the introduction of various policies and reforms.
He said it also prompted the deployment of technology to improve the efficiency of government and increase the state ranking on the ease of doing business index.
“Today, we are adjudged one of the safest — if not the safest state — in the country,” he said.
“We have constructed over 400km of interstate roads in three years and six months and it is worth mentioning that we have at least one road in every one of our 20 local government areas, and we have built over 1200 affordable homes across the state creating jobs for artisans.
“We will be back here very soon to commission our international agro cargo airport in another few months, and our deep sea port is also loading.”
Niyi Adebayo, minister of trade and investment, in his remarks, described the project as a step forward in Nigeria’s economic revolution.
He added that SAPZ would help in agri-industrialisation and create jobs for the people, noting “this is going to be a regional trading hub”.
