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In furtherance of the Buhari
administration’s ease of doing business reforms, the Presidential Enabling
Business Environment Council (PEBEC), which is chaired by Vice President Yemi
Osinbajo, SAN, will, on Tuesday, consider new and specific initiatives to be
implemented over a 60-day period in the National Action Plan 2.0.
It will be recalled that a previous
60-day National Action Plan on Ease of Doing Business was approved on February
21, 2017. The National Action Plan contained initiatives and actions
implemented by responsible Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), the
National Assembly, the Governments of Lagos and Kano states, as well as some private
sector stakeholders.
The expanded PEBEC meeting will be
attended by the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, the Speaker of the
House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, and the Chief Justice of the
Federation, Justice Walter Onnoghen.
Also expected at the meeting are Lagos
State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, and Kano State Governor, Governor Abdullahi
Umar Ganduje, as well as the Acting Director-General of the National Agency for
Food and Drug Administration Control, who was invited to the session, based on
stakeholder feedback.
PEBEC, which was inaugurated in 2016 by
President Muhammadu Buhari, comprises 10 Honourable Ministers, with the
Honourable Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Okey Enelamah, as
Vice Chair, along with the Head of Service, the Central Bank Governor,
representatives of the National Assembly, Lagos and Kano states, and the
private sector.
Recently, the Enabling Business
Environment Secretariat (EBES) of the PEBEC released the 2016/2017 Reform
Update document at the 5th Presidential Quarterly Business Forum held in Abuja
on September 11, where the role of regulators as business facilitators was
further discussed. This event was chaired by Prof. Osinbajo, and attended by
ministers and Heads of Agencies, as well as leading companies in the private
sector.
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