SUCCOUR may be coming the war of the local artisans manufacturing
shoes, bags, belts and other leather products as their product could
soon be transformed and compared to intenational products.
This is because some Brazilian investors have shown interest in their
products and are planning to make available to them modern equipments
that will improve the quality of their products.
The investors were amazed at the quality of the shoes, bags and other
products, the Aba leathers were able to produce with their hands and
raw equipments and reasoned that with modern equipment, the sky could be
their limit.
South East Voice leant that the investors really marveled at one of
the shoe makers who produces over 200 shoes daily just with his raw hand
and sensed that if such an artisan is provided with equipment, he will
do much more.
The investors who were conducted round the Leather Cluster of the
Ariria International Market, Aba by some aides of Governor Okezie
Ikpeazu, and officials of the Leather Workers Union, including Lawrence
Odoemelem, SSA, Investment Promotions and Elder Emma Ezeala, SSA,
Investment Facilitation and Chinedu Nwagu, SSA, Investment Planning and
Strategy, showed genuine interest in partnering with the artisans
involved in leather works in Aba.
