Jack Ma, co-founder of Alibaba,
Chinese e-commerce company, led a team of investors from his country to Nigeria
on Thursday.
Speaking when he met with
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at the presidential villa in Abuja, Ma said the
essence of the visit is to understand Africa more.
One of the richest men in Aisa
said he had been looking forward to visiting the country.
“I think our team today realised
our dreams meeting you. We flew 15 hours into Nigeria and we are excited. This
trip is to try to understand Africa more. We came to Africa four years ago and
our plan is to visit four, five countries in every trip,” Ma said.
“My personal target is to try and
visit every country in Africa in 10 years and support Africa. Nigeria is a
great country with a large population, very strong economy, excellent young
people with excellent innovations. And this is a country.”
Ma also shares some concepts that
he feels could assist a developing nation like Nigeria.
“We also want help through four
Es in Africa. The first, E list is E-infrastructure – support internet
connections to everybody. We hope that every young person, every small business
should have access to the internet to do business anywhere, anytime,” he said.
“The second E is support
entrepreneurs, this is very important. We think we can make entrepreneurs as
the heros of African continent. In China is the entrepreneurs that promote
business development, government support entrepreneurs.
“The third is E-government, if
government is on E, it will be very efficient, transparent, people will know
government can help and government will know what the people want. The last and
very important E is education.
“In the next few days we are
going to have the all the internet prize, everyone in Africa can apply for
award. I am happy to know that four Nigerian entrepreneurs are among the top
10. We will have the final competition in two days and I think Nigeria
entrepreneurs will have great result.
“This is just the beginning. Our
jobs is to support entrepreneurs. Everyone in the delegation, we are all
founders of our own businesses in China. We think what we have experienced in
China can help Africa entrepreneurs develop, support e-infrastructure,
e-governance, e-entrepreneurs and e-education and this is what we came here
for.
“We will love to have advise and
know government’s direction so that we can do a better job.”
Osinbajo thanked Ma for
“acknowledging Nigeria’s role in Africa and the world”.
“By leading a team of investors
to Nigeria, I hope you see as we do,
investment opportunities in Africa’s digital economy, infrastructure and
her people,” Osinbajo said.
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