RSSDA, MAN Partner On Employment Generation

The Rivers State
Sustainable Development Agency (RSSDA), has said that it will support the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Rivers/Bayelsa States, on its quest for employment generation.
Speaking while delivering a goodwill message at the 29th Annual General Meeting of MAN, Rivers/Bayelsa States in Port Harcourt last Thursday, the Executive Director of RSSDA, Noble Pepple, said it would continue to support MAN, and would do everything they need to do to ensure that the association achieved its goals.
Represented by the General Manager, Job Creation and Business Development, Blessing Daniel Kalio, the RSSDA boss explained that the reason why many companies were closing or had closed down was due to low patronage of their products.
According to him, as long as Nigerians continued to show class, imported goods will continue to have high patronage to the detriment of the made-in-Nigeria goals.
The RSSDA boss maintained that people would lose their jobs when companies were closed down, and that companies would close if they don’t have market or patronage on their product.
He said that the issue of patronising Nigerian products should go beyond mere words, adding that those foreign products Nigerians buy have passed through many stages of correction before perfection.
The RSSDA chief executive commended MAN for their effort in employment generation, adding that there will be no jobs, if there is no manufacturing.

Corlins Walter