The Executive Secretary/CEO of the National Sugar Development Council (NSDC), Mr. Kamar Bakrin (L), with the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Mr. Bashir Adewale Adeniyi (R), when the duo met to discuss the strengthening of existing collaboration for the purpose maximising the huge potential of the sugar sector. Photo: NSDC
The Executive Secretary of the National Sugar Development Council, Kamar Bakrin, has said a fully developed sugar industry can create up to one million jobs and address Nigeria’s security challenges by generating rural employment for youths.
According to a statement made available to PUNCH Online on Sunday, Bakrin made the remarks at a strategic meeting between the NSDC and the Nigeria Customs Service at the Customs headquarters in Abuja.
Addressing the Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adeniyi, and senior officials of the service, he said the sector could generate 250,000 direct jobs and 750,000 indirect jobs across its value chain in about 12 states.
“If Nigeria succeeds in developing a proper sugar sector, one of the things we would do is convert an annual outflow of over one billion dollars into jobs, security, and industrialisation.
