Vice President Kashim Shettima has praised Zeberced Group Limited for creating 40,000 jobs and developing the Abuja Industrial Park, among other projects in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Interacting with journalists after visiting the company’s site at Idu, Abuja. The VP, who also inspected the production line at the company’s Plastic Pipe Factory, applauded its vision for creating 40,000 jobs in about 200 factories to be established in the area.
He said: “I must confess that I am overwhelmed by what I have seen. “This project is in full alignment with President Bola Tinubu’s industrialisation drive. “The trajectory of global growth is facing Africa and Nigeria will make or mar that transition.
“They have created a perfect ecosystem with infrastructure, the roads, and the railway line that will pass through this industrial zone.”
While assuring that the Tinubu administration remained determined to encourage investors doing business in Nigeria, Shettima stated that the development of the park “is a harbinger of greater things to come for the Nigerian nation”.
He said: “This company needs to be celebrated and encouraged. Be rest assured that we are going to secure for them every government support needed to catapult them to a higher pedestal. It is a commendable effort that they believe in Nigeria.”
Earlier, the Managing Director/CEO of the company, Mr. Adil Ayoin Kurt, recalled that when he came to Nigeria 17 years ago, he started with a small quarry company that rose to become one of the biggest quarry operators in Africa.