A capacity building programme by Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) to help shoe entrepreneurs was held recently in Nigeria.
Favorable results have started trickling in on acount of a ban imposed on the import of leather products by the Federal Government, a policy that allows for identifying Aba footwear group as having great potentials to compete with world wide products if provided necessary patronage.
Made-In-Nigeria leather products promotion has been felt by the government for which it must frame a policy.
Aba Shoe Makers currently favored exporting their leather products to overseas countries through middlemen who were merely placing foreign labels and reexporting them back to Nigeria, passing them as imported shoes.
Stating that the government policy was focussed, Modupe Adelaja, the Director General of Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), explained people should have faith about the government's intent would help cease re-branding Nigerian products to foreign labels, thereby creating a demand for Nigerian products.
Backing SMEDAN program, she expressed hope that it would successfully equip all operators of the Aba leather group with necessary tools to enable them to prosperin their businesses, more efficiently and profitably.
According to experts, the course would also help achieve technical, managerial and administrative skills enablingthe traders to access credit, improve product quality and access foreign market.
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