The President, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, Dr. Frank Jacobs, on Thursday disclosed this during a media parley to intensify campaign for made-in-Nigeria goods.
The MAN president, joined by a consumer advocate and founder, Consumer Advocacy Foundation of Nigeria, Mrs. Sola Salako-Ajulo, urged the media to magnify the campaign so that everybody would be aware of it.They both acknowledged the media as the greatest platform for public advocacy, adding that once the made-in-Nigeria concept was promoted by the media, every Nigerian would tap into it.
Jacobs said that the association had been carrying out an advocacy campaign for the patronage of made-in-Nigeria products since 2016 in collaboration with ENABLE2, a United Kingdom Department for International Development programme, aimed at improving patronage of locally made products by Nigerians, government, its ministries, departments and agencies through an effective and inward looking public procurement process.
He said, “Undoubtedly, the government remains the largest single spender in the economy and could drive industrial development and economic growth by increasing its patronage of locally made products.
“Government prefers foreign goods and Nigerian manufacturers lose an average of $3bn annually as a result.”
Jacobs noted that within a short period of the commencement of the advocacy, the campaign had recorded some progress with the call for the review of the current Public Procurement Act; introduction of the executive order on improved government’s patronage of local products and the current build up against smuggling and counterfeiting activities in Nigeria.
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