By Abdulrahman Abdulraheem
Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) has announced its intention to collaborate with the Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC) to promote the raw materials processing cluster in line with the cluster concepts of the Federal government.
Speaking in a recent meeting with his RMRDC counterpart, Professor Azikwe Onwualu at the Council’s boardroom, the Director General of SMEDAN, Alhaji Muhammad Nadada Umar, reiterated the importance of inter- agency collaboration which would according to him, open a new vista for economic development in Nigeria.
The SMEDAN DG noted that “an SME sector that is built on imported technology is unfavorable. We want an SME built on local technology”. He also congratulated the RMRDC DG, for initiating the Raw materials processing cluster adding that with their collaboration, the cluster concept would be strengthened as SMEDAN has now taken charge of Industrial Development Centres (IDCs) all over the Federation.
Umar also said that with the partnership between the two agencies, they could develop one enterprise based on the natural endowment of the local government area and this should cover all the 774 local government areas in Nigeria. He suggested that both agencies come up with a framework for achieving this goal.
In his response, the RMRDC DG, Professor Onwualu, commended the Director-General of SMEDAN for taking a bold move to partner with the council considering the fact that the mandate of the council covers all sectors of the economy.
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