Delta State government has appealed to Nigerians to always patronise locally made goods to encourage indigenous producers and manufacturers.
The special adviser to the governor on trade and export, Mrs Shimite Love, made the appeal when she featured as a guest of “Orientation Panorama” on Voice of Delta Radio 97.9 FM in Asaba.
She said the attitude would facilitate industrialisation, economic prosperity and future prospects for traders and exporters in Delta State and across Nigeria.
The governor’s aide said the state is targeting over 2,500 local exporters of various commodities and packaged products to countries within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
Shimite said the exportation can be achieved during the first tenure of the state governor, Hon Sheriff Oborevwori, while the second tenure shall double government efforts.
According to her, the state governor is committed to the socioeconomic growth and capacity building of entrepreneurs through training, skills acquisition and public-private partnership initiatives.
She said her office recently profiled small and medium enterprises in the state, to enable government develop the sector known to be the major booster of economic growth the world over.
„The MORE agenda of governor Oborevwori adequately captured new economic reforms in trade and export businesses, especially painless tax reforms, and by assisting traders and exporters to consistently improve on their products, goods and services,” she said.
Shimite disclosed that Delta has been exporting palm oil, soaps, soya milk, plantain flour and cassava value chain products to Kenya and Togo under the immediate past administration of Governor Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa.
