The Executive Director,
Jerospalm Processing Industries (Nig) Ltd, Mr. Ezeilo Livin has said that despite the challenges facing the organisation, he would not relent in hiring more hands.
In a chat with our correspondent over the weekend at Ahoada, he said the rate of unemployment in the country was high and that it was the responsibility of all to check the menace.
With more than 200 workers already in the company’s payroll and currently engaged in a fresh intake he said, “we are trying in our own little way to see what we can  help the unemployed” he said.
According to him, he was not yet certain of how many would be engaged in the present exercise.
He said, “but as we are hiring, we are looking at the labour force” adding that when they are saturated they would stop.
He further explained that it also depended on the volume of work in the factory considering the fact that the organisation already has a previous work force of more than 200.
“The challenge is that when the volume of work is high the demand for labour will be high also” he said.
He said, with the dry season setting in, there was the tendency of more work considering the fact that the organisation was into water and yoghurt production among others.
On the problems of capital, he said government was not forthcoming in that direction.
He said government was not doing enough to encourage small scale industries even as he said his company was stretching itself to enable it move on.
“We would have been in a position to do more if government was assisting us.
“If they (government) are able to come in and empower us financially, we can do more.
“We can expand and when we expand we will indeed engage more hands” he said.
According to him, on several occasions they approached government in that direction but such moves received no positive responses which further frustrates the efforts of the company.
However he said, he would not relent even as he said “once in a while some banks come around to woo them and when you make demands for money they back out.”
On the quality of the company’s products he said the public has the final say  stressing that so far the high demand of the company’s products was a clear testimony  to the quality of the products which were fully registered with National Agency for Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC)