Osinbajo lauds MSMEs for job creation

 

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has expressed satisfaction with the large number of workers employed by some Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Nigeria.

Osinbajo who dropped in to see the state-of-the-art facility of the DLK Clothing Signature Limited, Lugbe, Abuja, while on tour of MSMEs in the Federal Capital Territory on Tuesday, could not hide his excitement.

Speaking with journalists after inspecting manufacturing processes at company, the VP said: “First, we are here at the DLK manufacturing company… We have seen shoes, boots, special uniforms for the NYSC, for the armed forces and they also make bags and masks; even face masks.

“This is quite an impressive facility because, first, there is a wide range of products that are manufactured right here.

“And secondly, there are a good number of men and women that are employed and thirdly and importantly, the equipment is state-of-the-art.

“We have looked around and we heard that you can do practically anything here; boots for the armed forces and in fact, they already have something they are doing for the armed forces, customs, the NYSC and all of that.”

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DLK Signature manufactures Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), uniforms, elegant wears, boots, converse, office and school shoes, bags, ladies’ slippers, men palms, duvets among others.

Osinbajo said that it was commendable to see that so much manufacturing was going on in Abuja with so many people employed with impressive innovation and creativity.

The vice president said that he, alongside, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, had looked round and had seen the potential and what had been done already.

“And just as you know, these are MSMEs; we are looking at star MSMEs here and there; and see what they are doing and in what ways we can support them.

“So, we are looking forward to working with them,” he said.

On her part, Lovelyn Mbanefo, Chief Executive Officer, DLK, who took the vice president round manufacturing stages, said that the firm was set up to harness local potential.

She said that DLK also aimed at curbing the importation of goods that could be produced in Nigeria.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the vice president also visited Roving Heights Bookstore, Wuse 2, Abuja where he inspected books on display and made some purchases.