The Area Controller of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Cross River/Akwa Ibom Command, Chukwudi Gabriel Ogbonna, has emphasized that, Nigeria requires more manufacturing firms instead of hotels.
While speaking in Calabar on Wednesday, July 24, with the delegation of Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, He said he observed that there seems to be more hotels in the country compared with manufacturing facilities.
He said: “The local or national economy cannot survive without manufacturers. Manufacturing or productive economy energizes any economy. But there seems to be more hotels than manufacturing facilities in Cross River and many other states.”
“It shouldn’t be that way. We ourselves are affected when manufacturers are not working. We take in revenues when manufacturers are working. We should give more support to local manufacturers.”
The MAN delegation, which was led by the acting chairman, Usen Umoh, had visited the NCS to express their happiness with the existing collaboration, and also talk of ways of improving partnership between the two organizations in the two states.
Umoh said “We manufacturers cannot do without NCS. This is because as we manufacture, we also import and export. Therefore, we must always interface with NCS. Our businesses have a lot to do with Customs.”
“We came to solicit greater cooperation between ourselves and the NCS.”
