By Halimah Balogun
The Centre for International Freight and Cargo Studies (CIFAS) has hailed Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun for opening up the state to cutting-edge agro-allied businesses and industrial revolution.
A statement by the Director General and Executive Secretary of the centre, Olatunde Awonuga and Olawale Ismail, said Governor Abiodun’s International Agro-Allied Cargo Airport project would improve the state’s economy.
Noting that the project was conceived by Gbenga Daniel’s administration, the centre said its actualisation by Abiodun’s administration should be applauded.
Awonuga stressed that the international airport would tremendously boost the exportation of agricultural and allied products by commercial farmers as well as importation of farm inputs into the state.
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He maintained that the establishment of the airport has finally given exporters the leeway to export their cash products such as Cocoa, Kolanut, rubber and tobacco without necessarily passing through the Muritala Muhammed International Airport and Apapa Seaport in Lagos since that axis have become nightmare for the investors, industries and freight forwarders due to congestion.
“The Cargo Airport will deepen the development of Ogun State, boost the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) and launch Ogun State as an international Industrial hub of huge potential. The construction of the airport is a testimony to the governor’s profound business acumen as well as his proven wealth of experience in the private sector. It shows that Governor Abiodun is a good manager of human and material resources as well as a mega creator of wealth-driven opportunities,” Awonuga said.
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