The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu has urged the Chinese business men and other industrialists operating in Nigeria's health sector to reduce the importation of medical equipment and consider establishing assembly plants for production.
The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu has urged the Chinese business men and other industrialists operating in Nigeria’s health sector to reduce the importation of medical equipment and consider establishing assembly plants for production.
Kalu added that the present economic weather in Nigeria does not support much of importation of goods and services because of the challenges the Naira is facing. “And based on that, the current administration, to forestall such happening again, is focusing on the policy that will increase indigenous support system for our health structures.
I’m sure that even if we don’t get all produced in this country, leveraging your knowledge in these ways, that you could pick few of them to be assembled here in Nigeria, to be manufactured here in Nigeria. “And through strategic partnership between the indigenous companies and foreign partners, we can build manufacturing outfits here, which the government is currently supporting. So, since you have the technology, bring it down to Africa, bring it here. The population is here and it’s increasing. The beauty of you doing it here is that it will create job.
“We are huge in lithium as a solid mineral. And oftentimes, this is exported to China or another place. We can process it here and use it to build some components of the solar system, the batteries. So you will leverage a comparative advantage because of proximity to raw material, which is one of the elements that reduces cost in production in the factors of production. Like I said, midterm, long term goal, the short term goal is to see what can we do to be safe, safe health wise.
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