The Senate has called on the Federal Government to urgently ban all foreign textile materials from entering the country as part of efforts to encourage local cotton production and revive dead textile industries across Nigeria.
The upper chamber also urged the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Trade and Investment to work toward bringing textile industries back to life, arguing that such a move would create jobs for unemployed Nigerians and help reduce youth restlessness and the insecurity that follows it.
The Senate further requested that the Federal Government provide additional funding to the Bank of Industry specifically dedicated to the textile sector to aid its revival.
Additionally, the chamber asked the government, through the Ministry of Agriculture, to promote cotton farming, noting that without cotton, there can be no textile industry.
These resolutions followed a motion titled “Urgent Need to revive the Textile Industries in Nigeria with particular reference to the Kaduna-Kano axis.” The motion was sponsored by Senator Sunday Marshall Katung from Kaduna South and co-sponsored by Senators Adams Oshiomhole, Tahir Monguno, Mustapha Khalid, Mustapha Khabeeb, Natasha Akpoti-Udughan, Kawu Abdurrahman Suleiman, Simon Lalong, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Babangida Hussaini, and Dandutse Mohammed.
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