how our big-time entrepreneurs are now realizing that no foreign venture capitalists will come to develop our country just like that. We have to lead the way. We have to create the confidence the venture capitalists want to have first before they regard our country as an investment destination.
Former presidential candidate Bashir Othman Tofa after leading the Kano Concerned Citizens Initiative to the Gezawa Commodity Market and Exchange wrote beautifully, elsewhere, on their experiences and understanding of the venture. Hear him:“Kano Concerned Citizens Initiative , visited the Market a fortnight ago. We were very impressed! After a three hour guided tour we settled at the conference room to hear all about it.
The coordinator of Gezawa Commodity Market and Exchange, Binfa Binchang, has revealed that about 15,000 jobs will be created through farmers’ cooperatives and commodity exchange projects. Speaking at the organization’s maiden Farmers Corporative Forum in Kano back in June, where over 20,000 farmers under cooperative societies were in attendance, Binchang said the aim of the forum is to facilitate farmers’ interaction with government agencies and banks.