FCTA moves to establish SAPZ

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Administration has stated that measures have been put in place for the immediate take off of the Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone (SAPZ) in livestock production.
Specifically, the administration has made provisions in the 2021 budget to the tune of N5 billion as counterpart funds for the actualisation of the project in the nation’s capital.


The chairman Project Implementation Committee Prof. Muhammad Usman, who stated this during a stakeholder engagement of AfDB/IFAD-SAPZ appraisal mission to FCT, also stated that the FCT Administration has developed a strategic implementation plan for the next three years of the administration.
Usman, who described the project as a game changer in project development in the FCT, however, noted that the SAPZ was one of the strategies to deliver on Mr. President’s plan to create jobs for the youth and to take 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in the next nine years.


Speaking further on the benefits of the project, Usman stated that the SAPZ, when fully established, would improve modernised livestock productivity for national food nutrition security by making available quality and price competitive beef/dairy products for local and export markets, stressing that the project would resettle pastoralists, decongest the FCT of roaming cattle and mitigate farmer/herder conflicts.

He said, “The SAPZ is essentially one of our strategies to deliver on Mr. President’s plan to create jobs for the youth and to take 100 million Nigerians out of poverty over the next nine years. We plan to complement this with the production in the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) of the federal government while incentivising as many multi-national corporations with interest in livestock and dairy production.
“Consequently, we have constituted a multi-sectoral, inter-agency and multi-disciplinary SAPZ project development team for FCTA that has worked through the COVID-19 lockdown period, to prepare draft project implementation checklists, design layouts, and infrastructure provision cost estimates.”


He noted that the administration has aligned with the federal government policies and programmes on the ease of doing business, even as he stated that the administration has commenced stakeholders engagement to achieve top 3 sub national ranking at the end of 2021.

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