It is being made against the dire need to grow and protect local industries, conserve scarce foreign exchange and thus strengthen the naira, stimulate employment and ultimately set the economy on the right path.
The anxiety over the pollution of the Nigerian market with used and substandard goods from other parts of the world draws attention to the government’s incompetence or unwillingness to address the question of industrial growth and development.
Undoubtedly, the preponderance, acceptance and importation of foreign fabric have endangered local production, just as the acute importation of goods, tokunbo cars among others underscore the collapse of the country’s industrial sector.
No doubt, there are benefits in discouraging the importation of Adire and Kampala through criminalisation of the act or otherwise, but care must be taken to avoid creating artificial scarcity of the fabrics, more so as the local production at the moment is relatively small and may not be able to sustain the market demand.
Without a doubt, the onus lies on the government to come up with well-articulated policies to stop the importation of goods and items that can be produced locally to encourage local manufacturers and create jobs for Nigeria’s teeming young population.
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