Hours after president Muhammadu Buhari departed Nigeria for the Saudi Arabia economic forum, the General Secretary, National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, Issa Aremu has taken a swipe on the Nigerian government for attending and taking part in all sorts of Africa and individual countries summits
Aremu, speaking at the unions 31st Natioanl Education conference in Abuja on tuesday, listed a few of the fora as the Russia-Africa summit, the China-Africa summit, The Japan-Africa summit, the Turkey-Africa Summit among others
The labour leader regretted how Nigeria will continue to join other african countries to allow themselves to remain underdeveloped by the intrigues of the developed counties
While calling on the Nigerian government sustain the closure of its land borders to boost internal production of goods, He said the country must unearth those behind the over nine billion dollars deallings with the P&ID company
President Buhari has mandated the Central Bank of Nigeria and industrial Training fund to provide special funds to facilitate training of textile and garment workers across Nigeria
The president said this is to sustain the memorandum of understanding signed between the CBN and all uniform services with textile industry for production and use of local fabrics
The president representatives at the conference, professor Segun Ajiboye also emphasised the importance of the current border closure.
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