
The wealthiest entrepreneur in Africa, Aliko Dangote, has expressed dismay at the challenges encountered by investors visiting the continent, claiming that his Nigerian passport requires 35 separate visas.
He claimed to have discussed the difficulties that do not exist in France with Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda.
“I continued to take issue with President Kagame. He said, “I told him that I really don’t have the time to go and be dropping my passports in embassies to get a visa. As an investor, I now have to apply for 35 different visas on my passport.”
“However, what irritates me the most is that, yes, I can understand if you treat everyone equally.”
Patrick Pouyanne, the head of Total Energies, does not require 35 visas on his French passport in order to enter African nations, according to Dangote, who used the French passport as an example.
“Your French passport does not require thirty-five visas. This indicates that you are more mobile than I am in Africa,” he remarked.
He went on to discuss African firms, saying at the moment that “main task is to ensure the regional markets all function.” We can now go on to the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) once they are operational. However, we also need to ensure that the AfCFTA functions.
Our intra-trade rate is below 16 percent, and we do not have a very promising continent. Well, then it will be up to us Africans to accomplish it. The growth of Africa will not occur if we wait for outsiders to arrive and take the initiative, the speaker declared
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