Kogi state governor Yahaya Bello has called on governments and private organisations to patronise indigenous contractors and engineers.
According to the Kogi state governor, this will help boost the local economy and encourage home-grown companies.
Bello made this known during a visit to the Lokoja Civic Centre, still under construction.
His media aide, Mr Onogwu Muhammed, stated in Lokoja on Monday that Bello expressed satisfaction at the speed and quality of work on the project being handled by an indigenous company.
Bello said the civic centre was one amongst the several infrastructural facelifts on-going in Lokoja to position it as the befitting capital of the “Confluence State’’.
The governor noted that his administration was executing numerous infrastructural projects which it intended to complete despite lack of funds and the innumerable obligations to its citizens.
The governor, who similarly visited some other project sites, stressed that patronage of indigenous companies possessed great ripple benefits for the local economy.