Akwa Ibom to send business team to Poland

The Akwa Ibom State Government has mapped out plans to send a trade delegation to Poland to understudy and learn the business ideas of the country’s investors.
Governor Godswill Akpabio, who gave the hint during an interactive meeting between Polish investors and the Akwa Ibom State business community at the Government House Banquet Hall, Uyo, said the delegation on return from the trip would meaningfully replicate the investment ideas in the state.
Akpabio, who assured the Polish delegates of government’s support and co-operation in the business sector, called on business people in the state to take active part in any viable business venture coming to the state.
He assured the people of state government’s financial support and reiterated his administration’s readiness to adopt a policy to assist the people coming into the state to start business concerns.
The Polish Ambassador to Nigeria, Prezemyslaw Niesiolowski, said their visit to the state was to organize a trade mission in the country with Akwa Ibom State as one of the business communities for the mission.
In doing this, the seek partnership with the state government to create a momentum in bringing an administrative business idea for the growth of the society.
The Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Commerce and Industries, Martin Udoinyang, said some Polish investors are seeking to undertake business investments in the state.
Udoinyang remarked: “The Polish investors are very interested in coming to Akwa Ibom to establish one business or the other, taking cognizance of the infrastructural development projects that have been put in place by our state Governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio.
“There are abundant resources and the very wonderful, truthful and trained manpower.
“They have talked about construction, agricultural machinery and processing, energy, manufacturing, health-care system, among others.
“The people are open.
“They are ready for partnership business with Nigeria.
“So, our people should also be open in doing business with them as our state governor had advised.”
The commissioner, who enjoined the people of Akwa Ibom State to avoid doing anything that would limit their investment plan, said the state government has made an allocation in this year’s budget for private investors wanting to key into government’s industrialisation policy while the banks are ready to assist in releasing the money for those with verifiable feasibility studies.
The Board Chairman of Akwa Ibom State Investment Corporation, Chief Senas Ukpanah, thanked the Polish investors for coming to the state and noted that their business plan would undergo final scrutiny in Abuja before approval by the state government.
Responding on behalf of the Akwa Ibom State business community, Dr. Okon Emah thanked the Polish investors for their interest in the state and tasked them to practically invest in the state instead incubating their business plan for a long time.