A top businessman, based
in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, Sir Kingsley Dike, has charged manufacturers to improve on the quality of their products.
Dike, a dealer in foreign shoes and bags who gave the charge in a chat with The Tide said improved products would enhance the manufacturing sector, benefit the society and bring about economic development.
He explained, “take for instances the shoes I travelled thousands of miles to foreign lands to buy to come and sell here. Those shoes and bags can be manufactured here with improved quality materials which will make their products to stand-out customers like quality products, they like to have value for their hard-earned money. For value for their money, customers are willing to pay any amount”.
Dike recalled that attention has recently shifted to locally manufactured products, “governments have repeatedly stated that we should increase our patronage of locally manufactures goods to create job opportunities for our teeming unemployal graduates”.
He noted that China and Inchia used to have backward economies saying that now their was a remanable improvement in their economy “because their manufactures upped the quality of their products and now we run to them for everything we need, this shows that these countries have been able to get their acts together and now they and doing well”.
He however called on the government to put measures in place that would help manufactures maximize profit which improving the quality of their products.
He also said government should enforce manufacturing polcies and clamp down on producers of sub standard goods, saying that many manufactures have shunned good standards for maximum profits at the consumers expense.

Tonye Nria-Dappa