
The sixth edition of the annual Kaduna Economic and Investment Summit (KADInvest), holding on 23rd and 24th September 2021. This year KADInvest 6.0 theme is “Towards a Sustainable Knowledge-based Economy”.
The Executive Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai during his opening remarks session, appreciate the coming of the Nigerian Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, he said, “it is my pleasure to welcome the Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo to Kaduna for the sixth edition of KADInvest. We appreciate the distinguished guests who have joined us online and within the hall to make the summit a success. The Vice President will commission the new Kasuwan Magani market as part of Day 1 of the KADInvest.”
KADInvest has helped to deliver on the State governance agenda to develop our state by promoting enterprise and attracting the investors that can create jobs, transfer skills and know-how and expand opportunity. Since the first edition in 2016, KADInvest has showcased to the world that Kaduna State is open for business. It has been a platform for informed discourse. KADInvest has delivered significant benefits for Kaduna State.
In five years, it has helped attract over USD 2.8 billion in actual and pledged investments. The State has attracted companies such as Olam, Arla, Tomato Jos and OCP Fertilizer, Dangote Peugeot and TMDK Agro-allied Industries. The Gujeni project being done by African Natural Resources and Mines Ltd represents the single most significant steel investment in sub-Saharan Africa.
KADInvest 6.0 Special Guest of Honour, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, delivered his remarks bringing the opening session to a close. The VP inspected the Galaxy Mall before heading to Kasuwan Magani to commission the new market KDSG built in the town.
At Kasuwan Magani Market
Malam Nasir El-Rufai, during his remarks at the commissioning ceremony of the new Kasuwan Magani Market, held in Kasuwan Magani, Mr. Governor stated that;
“Mr. Vice President, we are grateful to Your Excellency for taking time to commission this project. We waited eight months after the completion of this project because we wanted you to commission this market. We insisted on you for several reasons. The first is that you are a man of deep social conscience. You care deeply about poor people and you care about giving them opportunity to prosper economically. The second reason is that you are a bridge builder. You are a pastor who is friends with imams, khaliphas and emirs. You are a professor who can speak the language of ordinary people. You are a lawyer who pursues justice, not technicalities. You care for people, you care for Nigerians and you care for unity in diversity. You care about dropping differences in religion and ethnicity, and you always promote peaceful coexistence.
Your Excellency, this community needs an apostle like you to preach unity and peaceful coexistence. No one is more qualified to commission this market, in this community, at this time, than Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. We are happy that you have made the time to come here and you can see the excitement of the people here on your visit to their community. We hope you will come back again and again.”