(Thursday August 25th, 2016 Issue)
The Minister of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and Employment, Abdou Jobe, has tasked the Africa Cashew Alliance (ACA) not only to talk about their challenges, constraints or problems during their seminar, but also to focus on solutions to their problems.
He
said focusing on solutions to the problems they encounter would better help
them to forge ahead in their businesses.
Minister
Jobe was speaking at a two-day seminar organised by the Africa Cashew Alliance
and held at the Kairaba Beach Hotel.
He
urged ACA members to take the seminar as an opportunity to showcase their
experience and lessons learnt not only to talk about their challenges,
constraints or problems, but to also focus on solutions to their challenges or
problems.
According
to him, the seminar was one part of the solutions to their problems hence the
need for them to work together as economic operators to achieve their goals and
objectives.
He
said the seminar was geared towards building the capacity of ACA members, which
is key, as it would increase competitiveness and sustainability of their
businesses.
As
he put it, government has created an environment conducive for business
operators to explore their potential and the government “recognizes the
important role the business people play” in the economy.
He
said organising such training seminar for ACA members was very timely and would
greatly enhance their capacity, especially in the information sharing system,
which would add value to their businesses.
“We
are part of one economic growth as a people and we shall work together as one
people in the sub-region. We have to work together to achieve our objective,”
Minister Jobe said.
He
emphasised the need for ACA to endeavour to overcome their challenges, saying
government has policy measures to enhance their performance and development of
their business.
ACA is a group of economic operators that need
to synchronise with government and change lives, he said.
Hon.
Jobe said government has recognised the vital role the enterprise plays in the
economic growth, but government still wants to know the problems and key
challenges so that together there would be solutions to those problems through
government linkages.
“We
as a government are encouraging you ACA members to continue the good work, and
through information sharing ACA will yield dividend,” he said.
