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Report government officials creating problems for you, Osinbajo tells SMEs

Report government officials creating problems for you, Osinbajo tells SMEs

Melveen Illahh by Melveen Illahh
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Report government officials creating problems for you, Osinbajo tells SMEs

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday called on business operators in the country to expose government officials creating articifial problems for them while carrying out their legitimate businesses.

The Vice President made the call while speaking during the inauguration of the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Trade & Convention Centre, calling on the Chamber to pay more attention to the development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs).

According to Osinbajo, government at different levels needed to take a second look at the regulation of small businesses with a view to addressing peculiar challenges they face in order to further promote private sector contribution to the country’s economic development.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, Mr Laolu Akande, in a statement, qouted the VP stressing the importance of government officials assigned to be regulators in the business sector, to see themselves more as facilitators more than just being regulators.

He said: “With respect to government policy, of course, you are aware that the government’s position is that we must continue, on an incremental basis, to provide for ourselves, a properly enabling business environment in every respect which is why we have Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) which focuses on trying to improve on the business environment.

“But I think that one of the drawbacks that we have had in improving the business environment is really with respect to how we regulate small businesses. So, for example in Abuja, I hear very frequently, small businesses who talk about the kind of problems that they experience, either with fumigation licenses, or one licence or the other. All manner of constraints, which ideally should not occur.”

While citing a presidential directive on improving the business environment in the country, the Vice President said: “The private sector must work, very actively with us, in ensuring that we are policemen and women of the regulations.”

Continuing, the VP said: “A time has come for us to have a Chamber of Commerce, paying attention to all that is going on in the MSMEs space especially with respect to regulation. You must call out government officials who are making it difficult for people to do business.

“If you recall, the president himself said that there is no way the private sector and business can thrive if government officials see themselves as roadblocks and hindrances as opposed to facilitators. Every government regulator must be a facilitator of business that is the way forward. We cannot afford a situation where government regulators see themselves as policemen only, they must be facilitators of things.


“I know that the Minister of the FCT is actively working with the PEBEC and the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, have all been concerned about making this work. But Abuja is just one example of how generally speaking, all over the country, we need to take a second look at how we regulate small businesses.”

On the impact the Buhari administration’s pro-business finance initiatives, the Vice President said: “As part of government policy, we have already more or less removed some of the major taxes.

For corporate taxes, if your turnover is under N25 million, your tax is zero. And we have reduced incrementally all the way up. So, with respect to corporation taxes, at least, we know that we are doing quite well.

“If you look at the proposed Finance Act, there are several incentives for small businesses.”

Commending the chamber on the Convention Centre, Osinbajo said: “I was quite shocked frankly to see that such an incredibly sized building could have been done purely by voluntary private sector effort. This is why, in my opinion, this is a very important event because it underscores the strength and dynamism of our private sector which is a crucial component of economic development.

“As a matter of fact, I think that we are all generally, in agreement that there are at least three trends that will determine our economic development. The first, of course, is government policy, the second is private sector investment, and the third is that part of private sector which is the SMEs sector. I think that those three will definitely determine the way that our economic development trajectory proceeds in this country.”

In his remark, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Niyi Adebayo assured the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) of his ministry’s support in growing businesses in Nigeria, while the President of ACCI, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode said the Convention Centre will serve as a place for the promotion of Nigerian businesses and the empowerment of the youths.

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