Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun has appealed to the federal government to approve the operation of the Remo Economic Zone as a Free Trade Zone.
The governor made the plea when he received the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Doris Uzoka-Anite and her team in his office at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.
He noted that the approval was needed to enable processing companies that have signed to process their raw materials in the zone commence operations.
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He emphasised that the zone would record multiple processing companies willing to sign up to begin work in the zone in the next one year if the approval was given, saying out of the six Special Agro Processing Zone, the state has the highest number.
Abiodun said: “We have an impending application for the Remo Economic Zone in your office as a Special Economic Zone that enjoys the status of a Free Trade Zone, and the reason for that is very simple.
“The entire economic zone is being developed in partnership between the state government and the third party, and we have located the airport as one of the enablers of its own. Part of the requirements that we signed with our partner was that this economic zone will be a Free Trade Zone.”
