Vice President Kashim Shettima has disbursed N150,000 grants to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs).
He said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu directed the disbursement to business owners in Enugu State.
Shettima also inaugurated Nigeria’s largest Ultra-Modern MSME Fashion Hub in the Enugu State capital.
He said President Tinubu’s commitment to creating a business environment that provides incentives and opportunities to transform MSMEs into formidable enterprises is unyielding.
Shettima affirmed the President’s commitment to bridging the infrastructure gap and ending the erosion menace in the Southeast geo-political zone.
He hailed Governor Peter Mbah for lifting the people of Enugu and the state from the ruins of poverty to the current state of economic prosperity.
The vice president expressed happiness that Mbah’s administration had positively changed the face of Enugu State within a short time in office.
“Until the emergence of Governor Peter Mbah, Enugu was a sleepy town that didn’t even have water supply.
“So, Your Excellency, we want to thank you. We want to commend you. We want to identify with you. Honestly, I’m quite pleased to be in your midst this afternoon. We’ve had some very fruitful discussion with the honourable Deputy Speaker,” he said.
While lamenting that erosion was already affecting the livelihood of Nigerians in the region, Shettima explained that the president had concluded plans to have discussions with the National Assembly and the governors of the Southeast in order to come up with a workable solution to permanently deal with the erosion within the region.
He said: “The problems of the Southeast are problems of infrastructural deficit; problems of erosions that are affecting the very livelihood of our people.
“We’ve made arrangements with him ( Deputy Speaker). We will sit with the leadership of the National Assembly. We’ll sit with the governors of the Southeast and come up with a whole solution to deal with the erosion, especially in the states like Anambra and Abia, and even Enugu is not left out of this scourge of erosion. These are issues that need practical solutions.”
