Ogun creating more industrial clusters for investors, says Abiodun
OGUN State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has said that his administration is creating different industrial clusters to provide conducive environment for more investors to berth.
Abiodun, who stated this when he received the management of Mikano International Limited on a courtesy visit to his office in Oke- Mosan, Abeokuta, expressed satisfaction that the state would soon be open for industrial revolution.
He stated that, aside the
Agbara industrial cluster, others would be sited along the Epe- Ijebu- Ode axis, Magboro and the Interchange axis.
He said: “We are creating different industrial clusters around the state. Before, we had the Agbara industrial clusters and now we have the new interchange. We have identified different other clusters. We have what we call Ijebu Cluster, which will be along the Epe- Ijebu- Ode Road. Remo Cluster somewhere around the agro airport that is coming up. We have the Magboro Cluster, which is around MFM.”
The governor noted that his administration embarked on massive road infrastructure and had also created an Energy and Electricity Board to identify locations where gas pipelines could be extended to.
He pointed out that with good roads and availability of gas, the state would be open for industrial revolution.
The governor said his administration had put in place Ogun State Investment
Promotion Agency and Business Environment Council to make siting of businesses hitch- free.
In his remarks, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mikano International Limited, Mofid Karameh, acknowledged the state’s deliberate attempt at making the business environment conducive for investors.
He, therefore, urged the state government to help the firm in its efforts at expanding into food, beverages, syringes and disposable face- masks and automobiles.
COUNSEL to former Imo State Governor Ikedi Ohakim, Chief Aloy Ejimakor, yesterday, said that Lady Chinyere Amuchienwa ( nee Igwegbe) has lost her bid to stop an Imo State High Court from hearing the case filed by Ohakim against her and the police.
The case borders on fundamental human rights enforcement.
Ejimakor told The Guardian at Umuahia that the court, presided over by Justice I. G. Chukwunyere, after hearing his ( Ejimakor/ Ohakim’s) submissions, upheld them and ruled that “Amuchienwa’s application was pre- emptive and therefore refused. The application fails and is accordingly struck out.”
Ejimakor, who spoke when asked to state the present stage/ position of the pending suit between Amuchienwa and Ohakim, made copies of Ohakim’s suit and the court ruling available to The Guardian.
He said that Amuchienwa who had been accusing Ohakim of some wrongdoings, for which Ohakim had sued her, asked the court to refer Ohakim’s case against her from the High Court to the Court of Appeal, stating the originating case reference suit as No. HOW/ 717/ 2020.
Ejimakor also said that Amuchienwa had in her application argued that under the Constitution, the High Court could refer a case concerning an issue of interpretation and application of the Constitution but that he ( Ejimakor) argued otherwise, hence the case before the court concerned enforcement of fundamental rights and not interpretation and application of the Constitution.
According to Ohakim’s lawyer, “the same ruling was made in a sister case No. HOW/ 691/ 2020, in which the lady and the National Agency for Trafficking In Persons ( NATIP) are parties.”