Enugu Governor Mbah Seeks Investment Opportunities in Vienna, Austria

Source: The News Chronicle
Author: Kenechukwu Ofomah, Oladimeji Adeoye, Tunji Olaopa, Hassan Haruna, Pius Kadon

Enugu State Governor, Dr. Peter Mbah, has taken his investment drive to Vienna, Austria, where he held high-level meetings with senior government officials, the business community, and international development partners and also signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, towards the development of the state. A statement from his media office, said Mbah, who seeks to grow the state's economy from $4.4bn to $30bn in four to eight years through private sector investment and strategic partnerships, met with the Austrian Minister of Interior, Gehard Karner; Minister of Labour and Commerce, Dr. Martin Kocher; Minister of Agriculture, Norbert Totschnig; Managing Director of the Austrian Promotional Bank, Bernhard Sagmeister; Director General of the International Centre for Migration Policy Development, ICMPD, Michael Spindelegge; parliamentarians, among others, who expressed readiness to collaborate with the Enugu State government for the mutual benefits of both parties.