Kaduna Seek Dangote’s Partnership For Infrastructural Development
Kaduna State Governor, Nasiru Ahmad El-Rufai, has revealed that talks are on-going between the State Government and the management of Dangote Group towards developing infrastructure of the state on a
partnership level.
Speaking yesterday, at the close of 38th Kaduna International Trade Fair, El-rufai extolled the partnership between the Dangote Group and the Kaduna State Government over the years, while also lauding the
Group for yearly sponsorship of the state’s trade fair.
Represented by his deputy, Barnabas Bala Bantex, he lauded the support and participation of the Dangote Group in ensuring the Trade Fairs succeed.
“We are talking with the Dangote Group especially in the area of infrastructural development and in other areas in the state,” he revealed.
In the same vein, the representative of the President of the Dangote Group and Deputy Managing Director Dangote Flour Mills, Alhaji Ahmed Yakasai said the cooperation between the Dangote Group and the Kaduna Chamber of Commerce Industry Mines and Agriculture (KADCCIMA) has been helping to improve the country’s economy.
Yakasai assured that the Pan African conglomerate is not resting on its oars noting “The Kaduna Trade Fair is important to us because Kaduna is the heart of the North having been the centre of the region at independence in 1960,”
He further revealed that the Dangote Group and the Government of Kaduna State are partnering to reinvigorate the Peugeot Automobile of Nigeria, PAN, in order to create jobs for the youths.
