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Rivers Monarch Urges Local Economy Dev Through Cottage Industries

The Amanyanabo of Opobo Kingdom and Chairman, Rivers State Traditional Rulers Council, HRM King Dandeson Douglas Jaja has called for the development of a local economy through cottage industries.
Jaja made this assertion while speaking during his 75th birthday celebration held at the Civic Centre, Port Harcourt, Friday
The traditional ruler said the establishment of such cottage industry would ameliorate rural urban drift, provide employment opportunity for the teeming youths and boost the economy of the state.
He also called on the Governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike to look into the area of drug abuse by the youths in the state, adding that crimes were carried out under the influence of drugs.
The Opobo monarch said that Governor Wike, who is a pragmatic leader had touched the lives of the people at the grassroot, especially the farmers with his network of roads and other infrastructures, pointing out that rural farmers now found it easy to transport their farm produces to the urban markets without much difficulties.
Jaja commended the governor for providing eight security gun boats to the Nigerian Navy to curb crime and sea piracy on the waterways, and expressed optimism that the gesture would go a long way to ameliorate piracy in the state’s waterways.
Colins Barasineye