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Foreign Exhibitors Want Standard Trade Fair Ground
Some foreign exhibitors at the just concluded 26th Lagos International Trade Fair, have called on the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) to have a standard site for its trade fair.
They told newsmen in Lagos that the trade fair was old enough to have its own fairground with standard facilities.
Ms Grace Meng, the Vice General Manager of BrightWay Exhibition Company Ltd., who led 140 Chinese exhibitors, said that the infrastructure and fair layout were not good.
Grace said that the permanent site of the trade fair on Lagos-Badagry expressway had leaking roofs, dirty and deplorable toilets.
“Even at the TBS Complex on Lagos Island, all the pavilions are flooded when it rains.
“LCCI should have a trade fair place that can boast of internationally acceptable facilities,” she said.
She, however, lauded the outcome of the fair because the China Pavilion witnessed many visitors and potential investors.
The Deputy Director, Ghana Export Promotion Authority and leader of the exhibitors from Ghana, Mr Erasmus Ashum, said that LCCI should improve on its performance.
“When it rained on November 8, there was so much flooding and mud around. I thought that the mud will be cleared overnight but that was not the case.
“People bring in mud into the exhibition hall which does not speak so well of the exhibition generally.
“This will not happen if the organisers have their own place,” Ashun said.
Ashun said that LCCI should realise that its relationship with the exhibitors did not end with paying fees or when spaces were allocated to them.