Kaduna State Governor Malam Nasir El-Rufai yesterday commissioned the largest rice mill in the state on the second day of the 7th Kaduna Economic and Investment Summit (KadInvest 7.0).
The governor pointed out that the future of Nigeria is in the hands of young people and entrepreneurs.
The governor who was accompanied the deputy governor, Dr Hadiza Balarabe and senior government officials to the commission FaLGates Rice Mill, praised the proprietor, 32 year old Sadiq Falalu, for investing in Kaduna State.
El-Rufai said the rice mill is not just the largest in Kaduna State but the whole of Nigeria, adding; “What the young entrepreneur did is an evidence of what the young people are doing to take over the future.”’
The commissioning of FaLGates which is a N2.5billion agric and agro-allied company located at Sobawa, Rigachikun, was part of the events lined up for KadInvest 7.0.
Speaking at the event, the proprietor of FaLGates, Sadiq Falalu, recalled that the journey of setting up the rice mill started in 2016 when he approached the Kaduna Investment Promotion Agency(KADIPA) for land allocation.
He said afterwards, the company set up the mill with a processing capacity of about 300MT per day.
Sadiq thanked El-Rufai for approving the company’s land application and providing all the aftercare services rendered by the government through KADIPA, Kaduna Geographic Information Service(KADGIS), Kaduna State Urban Planning and Development Authority (KASUPDA), Ministry of Business, Innovation and Technology.
According to him, FaLGates employs over 400 people and has created 1,000 indirect jobs, adding that it has built a school for Sobawa community which has over 50 students.
