28th April, 2024
By Victor Adeoti
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Olatunbosun Oyintiloye has advised President Bola Tinubu to monitor the disbursement of the N200 billion Presidential Intervention Fund for Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises and manufacturers.
Oyintiloye, while speaking with newsmen on Sunday in Osogbo, urged the president to set up a monitoring team to ensure that the intervention fund achieved its purpose.
The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Doris Uzoka-Anite, had announced the launch of the N200 billion Presidential Intervention Fund for Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises and manufacturers.
According to Uzoka-Anite, N75 billion will be disbursed to MSMEs while another N75 billion will be distributed to the manufacturing industry under the Presidential Intervention Fund.
Oyintiloye noted that the fund must be protected from being siphoned into private pockets.
He, however, said that necessary strategies must be put in place to ensure that different intervention programmes by the president have positive impacts on the lives of Nigerians.
Oyintiloye commended the president for launching the intervention fund, noting that it would boost economic growth and industrial development at all levels.
The APC chieftain who noted that MSMEs promote a grassroots-level economy and create multiplier effects on the overall economy, said that the presidential intervention fund for the sector was the right decision.
He said the intervention fund would afford the MSMEs, being the backbone of the economy, the opportunity to create more jobs which would unlock the full potential of the nation’s economy.
“MSMEs contribute over 45 per cent to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) with 98.8 per cent of them in the micro cadre; they account for nearly 90 per cent of the jobs in the country.
“Therefore, as MSMEs grow, they create more jobs and contribute to GDP by producing goods and services for domestic consumption and export, which will lead to prosperity for more, and less insecurity across the country.