In fulfillment of its mandate to significantly spur Micro, Small and
Medium Scale Enterprises in Nigeria, the Federal Government will b e
launching one-stop shops across the country to
facilitate smoother government regulation and interface between
entrepreneurs and agencies like the National Agency for Food and Drug
Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC),
Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON), Federal Inland Revenue Service
(FIRS), and others.
Already, the first One-Stop Shop was
launched recently in Jos, Plateau State. While the MSMEs clinics which
has held in several States already provide at an event, the opportunity
for entrepreneurs and local producers in the MSME level to interact with
regulatory agencies, the One-Stop Shop creates an ongoing opportunity
in a permanent location to achieve the same purpose.
The
states that are next in line include Abia, Cross River, Ogun, Akwa Ibom,
Kwara, Kano, Benue and the FCT. While these states are slated for
September and October, more of the one-stop shops are expected to be
launched in other states before the end of the year.
The
One-Stop Shop programme is part of the on-going Nationwide Micro, Small
and Medium Enterprise Clinics for Viable Enterprises (MSME Clinics)
initiated by the Presidency in January 2017, and is aimed at providing a
platform for convenient, continuous and easy interactions between
regulatory agencies and MSMEs doing business in Nigeria.
The
MSMEs Clinics, one of the diversification initiatives of the Buhari
administration was designed to give small businesses the opportunity to
meet with the industry regulators, to talk to them and to hear their
problems in an effort to spur local production and harness the nation’s
export potential in the process.
Already, one such one-stop
shop for MSMEs in Plateau State has officially been launched in Jos on
Thursday, 24th of August 2017 and would be housed by the Plateau State
Micro-Finance Development Agency (PLASMEDA).
The agencies to
be housed in the One-Stop Shops include the Bank of Industry (BOI), Bank
of Agriculture (BOA), CAC, FIRS, SON, NAFDAC, Industrial Training Fund
(ITF), Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM), Nigerian Export Promotion
Council (NEPC), and Small & Medium Enterprises Development Agency of
Nigeria (SMEDAN).
It will also be a one-stop destination
housing representatives of key government agencies under one roof where
members of the public, entrepreneurs and potential entrepreneurs, can
visit to engage with these agencies, make enquiries, report complaints
and receive information that can boost their business plans and ideas.
At
the launch of the Katsina State’s MSMEs Clinic in Katsina in May, Vice
President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, noted that the MSMEs clinics were the
Buhari administration’s effort to bridge the gap between MSMEs and
relevant FG regulatory agencies, like NAFDAC, CAC, BOI, FIRS and others
and ensure that those agencies become facilitators of businesses, not
obstacles to business development.
“The evidence is that over
the years government and its agencies are seen more as an obstacle, a
hindrance rather than a facilitator, and this is across all arms of
government; the executive, the judiciary and the legislature. We have
talked extensively about the executive and about the problems that
people have interacting with the executive agencies but so it is with
the Judiciary as well,” he said.
Similarly, the Vice
President had urged public servants to imbibe the administration’s
culture of transparency and accountability in discharging their
respective duties, especially regarding the creation of an enabling
business environment.
“Every time that a public servant is an
obstacle to anyone seeking approvals or licenses, he or she attacks the
Nigerian economy and its future. Our individual and collective vision or
objective as civil or public servants must be advancing the social and
economic prosperity of Nigeria,’’ he added.
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