Governor Dauda Lawal revealed that he would create thousands of jobs for Zamfara people by reviving textile industries, cotton ginneries and oil mills across the state.
The governor revealed this after joining Vice President Kashim Shettima on an inspection of the integrated industrial zone near Cotonou, where cotton, cashew nuts, soybeans and other agricultural commodities are processed into finished and semi-finished products.
A statement by the spokesperson of the vice president, Stanley Nkwocha, said the governor drew practical lessons from the Glo-Djigbé Industrial Zone GDIZ), in Benin Republic as Nigeria intensifies efforts to establish agro-industrial processing hubs, revive domestic manufacturing and create large-scale employment for young people.
Mr Lawal said the GDIZ model demonstrated how deliberate government policy, reliable infrastructure and private-sector investment could link farmers to processors, reduce the export of raw commodities and create jobs across agricultural and manufacturing value chains.
Governor Lawal said the visit revived memories of the once-thriving textile industry in his state, where factories, cotton ginneries and oil mills previously employed thousands of people.
