By Tare Youdeowei & Mildred Ibrahim

GOVERNOR Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, has advocated for more Made in Nigeria products and industrial education, pointing out that they will yield the needed prosperity in Nigeria. Speaking at the commissioning of the Festo Authorized and Certified Training (FACT) Center for Industrial Automation in Government Technical College, Agidingbi, Ikeja, Governor Fashola said Nigeria cannot have made in Nigeria products without industrialization, mechanization and automation.

*Gov Fashola

His words to the students and attendees; “I have been inside this laboratory and I can tell you that most of the things you see in your textbooks, documentaries, you will now interact with in live demonstration to hopefully enable you understand better the basics and processes behind pneumatics which is pressure for air and automation which is the bases of industrialization and processing.

“As I have said time and again, the road to prosperity here lies in only three words ‘Made in Nigeria’ and the more of Made in Nigeria we begin to see around us, the more prosperity we will experience. You wouldn’t have Made in Nigeria without industrialization and you wouldn’t have industries without processes and automation, machines, valves, gears, etc.

Those are the things you will be interacting with here in this laboratory. What this means is that trainings that we usually spend money to send people abroad to do will now be done in Nigeria, so we are taking one step towards made in Nigeria.” Fashola said.

Stating that the center will also serve industries seeking to train their employees, Special Advisor to the Governor Lagos Eko Project, Ms Ronke Azeez said; “Lagos Eko project is world bank funded. It is a partnership between the World Bank and Lagos state government. Our objective is to improve student learning outcomes, so we work in all the secondary schools as well as developing partnership into technical colleges.”