Business
NUJ Tasks Govt On Moribund Firms
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Rivers State Chapter has made a fresh call on the state government to revitalize moribund state companies as a way of creating employment.
The call was made Tuesday by Chairman of the NUJ, Mr Opaka Dokubo shortly after leading members of the union on a facility tour of the PABOD Breweries in Port Harcourt.
Mr Dokubo submitted that there was need for government to revive other comatose stated-owned companies to absorb some of the teaming army of unemployed youths in the state.
He noted that the same strategy that was used to revitalize PABOD Breweries should also be adopted for other ailing public owned companies, and expressed delight over the resuscitation of the state owned brewery.
Some state owned companies that need urgent revitalization include, West Africa Glass Industry, Rivers State Marine Transport Company (RIVMARINE) and Risonpalm, among others.
If these companies were revived, the Rivers NUJ boss maintained that job opportunities would be abundant in the state.
It would be recalled that plans to revive the brewery was commenced in 2007, when the state government sold about 60 per cent of its shares, as the company is now being managed by South African investors.
Already since its inception in 2007, the Governor Amaechi administration has promoted the policy of Public Private Partnership (PPP) in running government owned businesses.
The governor had declared that it was through the Public Private Partnership (PPP) that government’s economic policy could be achieved as a way of curbing corruption and wastage of government funds in business ventures.
Meanwhile, a senior brewer with the PABOD Brewery, Christian Abuojah said the qualify of its products are high, since most of its resources are imported.