• Senate president, Akpabio Godswill
Senate President Godswill Akpabio says the national assembly will enforce a law mandating a minimum of 30 percent local value addition before any raw material is exported.
Akpabio spoke when he received members of the Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC), led by Nnanyelugo Martin Ike-Muonso, the council’s director-general, at his office in Abuja.
Akpabio described the proposed amendment to the RMRDC Act as a “moral compass” for other African countries.
“If any of the values were to be added in Nigeria before exporting them, we would have had at least, a factory for those chains that would have also created jobs for our people outside what the farmers are doing,” he said.