The forthcoming Ogoni Business Summit has received a big boost as one of the high profile guests, the Rwandan Ambassador to Nigeria, Stanislas Kamanzi is due to arrive Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital in the next couple of days.
The Ogoni Business Summit, which is being organised by the Ogoni Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (OGCCIMA), in collaboration with the Rivers Entrepreneur Investment Forum (REIF), is scheduled to hold on Wednesday, August 10, 2022 in Port Harcourt.
The Summit, which is the first of such fora planned by the OGCCIMA, is aimed at deliberately attracting investments and businesses to Ogoniland and Rivers State.
President of the OGCCIMA, Adoage Norteh, who announced this in Port Harcourt on Friday, August 5, 2022, said “the Ogoni axis is a fertile economic corridor for investments in Agriculture and other related businesses”.
According to Norteh, who is a former Executive Chairman of Rivers State Internal Revenue Service (RIRS), “Rwanda is a practical example of an African country that had emerged as a success story in Agricultural economy, and are also earning foreign revenue in that wise”.
“We are optimistic that the visit of the Rwandan Ambassador would provide a boost and avenue for Ogonis to copy ideas from the model that had made Rwanda to emerge as a leading global destination in Africa.”
Also speaking, the Chairman of the Organizing Committee for the Ogoni Business Summit, John Yowika said expressed optimism that the Ogonis would welcome opportunities and investors for collaborations in the area, stressing that Commerce is a thriving venture in the Ogoni axis, particularly, in the agricultural sector, but at a subsistence level.
Yowika stressed that in the present circumstance of absence of oil and gas activities in Ogoniland, that agricultural business had provided sustenance, noting that it is time to move it forward from a mere occupation to a business activity.
