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CISLAC, NECA advocate robust funding opportunities for Nigerian MSMEs

Victor Odeyemi by Victor Odeyemi
November 14, 2022
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CISLAC, NECA advocate robust funding opportunities for Nigerian MSMEs

Auwal Rasfanjani, CISLAC Executive Director

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The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Center (CISLAC) in partnership with the Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA), and with support from Oxfam, has called the Federal Government of Nigeria to looks towards strengthening fiscal opportunities through relevant consultations between SMEs, relevant government and professional agencies for mutual economic growth.

Auwal Rafsanjani, CISLAC Executive Director, made the call at a stakeholders sensitisation and consultation meeting on fiscal support opportunities for mutual economic growth of SMEs and private corporations.

He said that SMEs are important contributors to employment, output growth, and trade expansion and in Nigeria they remain critical constituents of the economy.

“According to a 2022 report jointly released by the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) and the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), there are at least 39.6 million micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) operated in Nigeria as of December 2020.

“Accounting for 96.7 per cent of businesses, 87.9 per cent of employment, and 49.7 per cent of national GDP. Totaling about 17.4 million enterprises.

“SMEs account for about 50 per cent of industrial jobs and nearly 90 per cent of activities in the manufacturing sector, in terms of number of enterprises.

“As you know, business death is the last stage of any business life cycle” he said.

According to the African Development Bank, 80 per cent of businesses in Africa fail within five years of starting up and at least 1.9 million SMEs have been lost since 2017 in Nigeria according to a 2020 PwC report.

He said it was instructive to note that obtaining finance remained the most pressing problem MSMEs face in Nigeria.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), less than five per cent of SMEs have been able to access adequate finance for working capital and for funding business growth/expansion.

Yet, SMEs still contribute a staggering 50 per cent to GDP.

To address these issues, he said that the Nigerian government helped to fund businesses through a variety of government-backed organisations like the Small & Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN).

Others include the Central Bank of Nigeria and Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL Plc.), Nigerian Export-Import Bank, Bank of Industry, Bank of Agriculture and Development Bank of Nigeria) and has established several agencies to assist SMEs.

Additionally, a minimum of 26 of Nigeria’s 36 state governments have established a SME development bureau or agency.

He claimed that despite these ostensibly major efforts, problems still exist that impede the sector’s expansion and advancement.

According to Mr. Rafsanjani, the center must aid small businesses by offering insight, guidance, and assistance with regard to obtaining financing and lowering financial obligations as it remained essential to improving their chances of success in an environment that was frequently challenging.

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