Buhari woos CEOs of Dutch companies
President Muhammadu Buhari has invited Chief Executive Officers of Dutch companies to invest in Nigeria, assuring them of safe and secure business environment that guarantees handsome returns.
The president met with over 20 heads of Dutch companies on the sidelines of his official visit to The Hague, Netherlands.
A statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina said the CEOs pledged to invest in the country.
“Stability was first thing in campaigns. You the our have to secure a country first, before you can efficiently manage it. Before businesses can thrive, security is paramount. That is why we lay so much emphasis on securing the country.
“After security, our next emphasis is reviving the economy, and then, fighting corruption,” the President said.
He commended the Dutch-owned companies operating in Nigeria for dealing fairly, noting that with many of them, “the relationship dates back more than two generations, and it is now almost a blood relationship rather than commercial.”
Speaking specifically about Royal Dutch Shell and the harnessing of Nigeria’s gas potentials, the President said: “We are more of a gas than petroleum producing country. We should be making more money from gas today than we make from petroleum.”
Mr David Suddens of Vlisco said the company would invest on 400 hectares of land for a textile park in Nigeria, while Mr Hein Schumacher of FrieslandCampina described Nigeria as “a most important country to us,” adding that the conglomerate would invest about 11 million Euros in a “ready to drink project, using 100% locally sourced milk.”