When it comes giving employments and offering job opportunities to teeming Nigeria youths and giving back to the society with quality brands standards products in the plastic and allied industries, Elaganza industries truly comes to mind.
This was the case at the ongoing National Industrial Manpower Summit, holding at the Banquet Hall of State House in Abuja.
Among the key stakeholders in the manufacturing industries was Eleganza Plastic industries. Speaking to journalists at the event, the Managing Director of the company, Mr. Shobomi Raheem Okoya, described the summit as a good one and great, coming at a time Nigeria needs to encourage its local industries especially when there is skill gap in the manufacturing sector. He lamented in a situation whereby industrialists find it very difficult to recruit the right skills in manufacturing sector because of lack of experience in the manufacturing industries.
He said, “Workers in the manufacturing sector lack skills and we want the government to back the manufacturers and give them necessary supports by providing skills acquisition techniques to enable them thrive in a developing a economy like Nigeria.”
The Managing Director advised ministries, agencies and other relevant stakeholders in the manufacturing sector to act quickly by making sure that all points raised at the Summit were fully implemented and not swept under the rugs.
Also, answering questions on why Eleganza Plastic industries participating in the Summit with varieties of their products, he replied,” Hardly you go to any home in Nigeria today that you would not see a particular product of Eleganza Plastic lndustries. Eleganza products is not only in plastics, but also in cosmetics, diapers, sanitary items. The company would be coming up with other products that will impact the life of Nigerian in terms of quality and standards which will always stand the taste of time.”
According to Shobomi, Eleganza companies also believes in empowering Nigerians. “It does not pay Nigeria by involving in importation of products and that is not sustainable for a growing economy like Nigeria.”
He concluded by urging Nigerians to always see any Eleganza products as their own as both skilled and unskilled workers are mostly Nigerians are employed by the company.
