Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged the Federal Government to ban importation of Chinese adire into the country, to save the local market of adire fabrics from imminent “bastardisation” by the Chinese.
Obasanjo begged the government to do all her possible best to protect local production of adire from the imported Chinese adire and all other things that could be produced locally in the country.
The Former President who made the appeal in his opening speech on Monday in Abeokuta, the state capital, lamented that the materials – clothes, for producing Adire that were hitherto sourced in Kano, Kaduna and Ado-Ekiti are not available anymore.
Obasanjo therefore appealed to the FG to revive the nation’s textile industries in order to make the raw materials for Adire production available for local manufacturers.
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