Lawmaker Assures On RIVLUX Paint Revival

The lawmaker representing Ahoada West Constituency in the Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon Okpokiri Wanaka Okpokiri has given assures that the House would do all within its powers to revive the moribund Rivers State-owned paint company, RIVLUX.

The lawmaker who is also the House committee chairman on women affairs  said this when he led members of his committee on oversight to the ministry of women affairs recently.

“As legislators we would do everything within our powers in making sure that all the funds needed to make this ministry effective is allocated and every support given.”  He said they visited the ministry to acquaint themselves with the challenges they face and to see how they can assist in proffering solutions.  Earlier during her remarks, the Commissioner for Women Affairs, Hon Ukel Oyagiri, amongst other challenges pleaded for a leg:slation to revamp the comatose paint factory and compel state ministries and agencies to use the product.

“If every contractor in Rivers State is asked to patronize RIVLUX paint, it would contribute to increasing the IGR of the state”, she noted.

According to her, the benefits of reviving the factory abound.

“If we revamped the RIVLUX factory, we would be creating job opportunities to our people, we would be training some and others would be working, we would be selling the paint to not only Rivers people, even to people outside here”.