Guber Candidate Promises Better Days For SMEs

Small and Medium  Scale Enterprises  (SMEs) may improve  for better,  if the  assurance of the  Governorship  candidate  of the Young Progressive Party (YPP), Engr Danagogo Wenike-Briggs is anything  to go by.
Wenike-Briggs, who gave the hint recently in Port Harcourt when he spoke  with newsmen at the Party’s Secretariat after his emergence as the flag bearer of the party, said his decision  was informed  by the need to ensure  that idleness  was discouraged  among the people, especially the youths.
. According to him,  there  should be a system  where  people  could always  fall back to in the event of set backs in their expectations.
The only sector for such back-up scheme, he said, were the SMEs, which he said had a lasting  support system.
He stated  that his government  will pay premium  attention  to the growth and sustenance of entrepreneurship to ensure that those with passion in that area will  have a landing place.
The YPP guber candidate maintained that, if such opportunities  are created, crime will take a nose-dive.
“Part of the challenges in the country is that SMEs are not functioning as they should.  If they are functioning perfectly,  many people  will look beyond  crime  and think of how to better  their lives.
“If young people  are pulled  out of the street either by full scale  employment  or via engagement in SMEs, the society will wear  a better  look.
“The relative peace people  enjoyed  in most European  countries,  was achieved  through  job creation and engagement  in SMEs”, he said.
Using Bonny as a case  study, he said the peace currently enjoyed  in the area was in connection with the availability  of job opportunities  in the area.
He, therefore, called  on Rivers people and residents to be prepared  for an open door government  system that will not only encourage the growth of SMEs,  but a system  that will give attention  to all round business  growth  where everyone  will think less of depending  on  any individual  under whatever guise.