4 November 2009
Abuja — The Nigeria Investment Promotion Council (NIPC) and the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) yesterday called for support from Nigeria policy makers and the private sector for the forthcoming India-ECOWAS Economic Summit.
The summit is billed to hold in Lagos, Nigeria in January next year.
Speaking in Abuja on Monday, Mr Alfred Brama who led a joint delegation from the ECOWAS secretariat and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FCCI) to the NIPC said they were on visitation to get maximum support for the event.
He said the summit was a follow up on the Indian-African Summit held in New Delhi last year where several African head of governments were in attendance.
He said: "We see ourselves as part of investment promotion drive in West Africa. This is why we reactivated the high power to be used as a vehicle to promote investment in the region."
Alfred said the team would proceed from Nigeria to Ghana, Cote d' Ivoire and end it up in Senegal as part of the drive to mobilise support for the event.
In his remarks, Executive Secretary of the NIPC Mustapha Bello, said the relationship between Nigeria and India dates back to decades and that the council would do all within its power to get support for the summit. He urged the team to liaise with the Nigeria Economic summit Group (NESG) as it has strong goodwill in the organised private sector as well as to extend its reach to Abuja, the seat of Nigeria policy making for a the desired impact.
Assistant Secretary General of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FCCI), Sheila Shudhakaran said the India is prepared to partner Nigeria in the area of power generation, Agriculture, health and pharmaceuticals as well as Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) and capacity building.
She said India is the fifth largest in terms of power generation and third in distribution in the world, which gives it the leverage to contribute in power generation.
Sheila said the summit will feature exhibitions by the participating countries and business networking.
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