Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has reiterated the commitment of his administration to the provision of infrastructure and ensure ease of doing business for financial institutions and other investors in the state.
The governor gave the assurance when top management staff of three banks, the United Bank for Africa Plc, Ecobank Nigeria Plc, and Optimus Bank paid him a courtesy visit at the Lagos State House, Marina.
The management staff of United Bank for Africa Plc was led by the Group managing director, Mr. Oliver Alawuba and the management staff of Ecobank Group led by their managing director Mr. Mobolaji Lawal and Optimus Bank team led by the chief executive officer, Dr. Ademola Odeyemi.
He said the state would continue to provide infrastructure for economic development.
Governor Sanwo-Olu said, ‘’We are still running our first term, about 39 more days to go; we can still do a lot in 39 days. We still have projects to commission, we have infrastructure to hand over to the people, we still have schools to hand over and we still have all of our promises that are still validly attainable within this first regime for us to still give to our people.
“We do not have any idle time , after the elections we have several things that we are doing and continue to do what we have to do, what that taught us is that really we need to do more work given the confidence and expectations of the people in Lagos,” Sanwo-Olu said.
He also charged the financial institutions on corporate social responsibilities to the host communities, saying the government needs strategic partnership with corporate organisations to complement the efforts of the government.
Governor Sanwo-Olu also applauded the UBA for partnering with the state government in the area of infrastructure development and financing.
Earlier, Alawuba congratulated the governor on his re-election, saying hisre-election was well deserved.
He lauded the governor for piloting the affairs of the state creditably during his first term in office and for creating an enabling environment for business to thrive in the state.
