Fashola Urges BATN to Advance Tobacco Regulations
The Governor, who spoke at the Lagos House, Ikeja when he received the team led by the Managing Director, Mr. Keith Gretton, said a company like the British American Tobacco Company should always consider how it can better prolong the lives of the people for whom it also make products.
“I think that an organization like yours should be able think of how they can better prolong the lives of the people for whom, you also make products and now, we are seeing a lot of diseases today as a result of lifestyle choices and lifestyle issues and they are getting much more complex with substance dependency and so on and so forth,” the Governor said.
According to Governor Fashola, the organization should stand up to be counted in terms of advancing regulations pertaining to its products.
“These are places where I would strongly think that your organization put a strong foot forward in terms of full appreciation of the need to intervene in advance of regulation as it were because I know that the lifestyle choices that people make especially in the kind of products that you make can also have certain health consequences and I think that it is important to help people to promote the risk voluntarily and openly in a manner that people therefore know what choices they have,” he reiterated.
The Governor said it was refreshing to learn about investments being made in the Nigerian market and also the indicators of further commitments being made by the organisation, adding that the benefits in terms of employment to people also comes clearly across, adding that the administration will also continue to play its part in terms of infrastructure support.
“We as a government remain committed to supporting businesses by filling in with the hardware end of the matter such as infrastructure, security and we would also continue to provide the environment in which your human capital can thrive and prosper.”
Speaking earlier, the Managing Director, Mr Keith Gretton had commended the infrastructure regeneration work which the Governor Fashola led administration is doing in Lagos State as well as the widely acknowledged security sector in the state.
He added that over the years the British American Tobacco West Africa has become a vital business for BAT globally with Nigeria being one of the top 10 globally out of 180 countries where BAT is present.
Mr Gretton stressed that the company is involved in some agriculture programme in Lagos and has about three to four ongoing projects at various stages aimed at helping women and the youth.
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Written by NEWSTRAWL ONLINE UPDATE
Sodiq Oyeleke is a Media, Human Resources, Project Management and Public Relations Practitioner
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