Union Commends FG’s Policy On Textile Industry

The National Union of
Textile, Garment and Tailoring workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN) has commended the federal government for the approval of a special intervention fund for the textile industry.
The union made the commendation in a communiqué issued at the end of its three-day workshop held in Ilorin, Kwara State recently.
The workshop was orgainsed by the union in collaboration with federich Ebert stiftung (FES) for self employed tailors and small-scale garment makers.
The communiqué signed by the union’s President and general secretary, comrades Oladele Hunsu and Issa Aremu respectively  listed key challenges facing the union to include, infrastructural  inadequacy raw   materials, electricity supply smuggling, counterfeiting and faking among others.
The union said these issues need to be addressed urgently by government to build confidence  in the  textile.
The union noted that finance was also one of the numerous challenges facing manufacturers stressing that the textile industry loses  over N75 billion  annually to smuggling of textile materials.
The union leaders noted that the performance of the country’s textile industry  remained at low ebb in the first half of the year due to lack of an enabling  environment and inconsistency in government  policy.
According to the communiqué  the textile industry currently has 25  textile mills employing about 24,000 workers while  the stagnation growth has remained  so low since 2012