The Area Controller of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Cross River/Akwa Ibom Command, Chukwudi Gabriel Ogbonna, has stressed that Nigeria requires more manufacturing firms instead of hotels.
Speaking in Calabar on Wednesday, July 24, the Customs boss said there seems to be more hotels in the country compared with manufacturing facilities.
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According with newsmen, 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.”