Nwabunike: I Will Protect Business Interests of My Constituents, Importers If Elected
The National President of Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents ANLCA, Iju Tony Nwabunike, has explained that his plan for seeking election into the National Assembly is to protect the business interests of all importers in the country as well as his constituents in Nnewi North/Nnewi South/Ekwusigo, Anambra State.
Nwabunike is contesting the for the seat of the Nnewi North/Nnewi South/Ekwusigo Federal Constituency on the platform of All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA.
He explained that his plan includes ensuring that his constituency is brought to the national business grid.
Speaking at a manifesto dinner night said his constituency constitutes about 65 percent of all importers and traders in Anambra state.
He said his people have been facing a lot of setbacks because of the unfriendly policies of the federal government.
Nwabunike said many importer and manufacturers have gone bankrupt as a result of frequent change of policies that have affected their businesses.
He said that when elected he will set out to create collaboration between the businessmen and women and various government agencies for integration into the national business grid.
Nwabunbike said, “I have been in the maritime industry for over 30 years and have witnessed firsthand the rise and fall of the people of my constituency and how government policies, programmes, guidelines and procedures have crippled and impoverished my people. Those self-help philanthropic initiatives and healthy competition by benevolent ones are no longer there. The good old days when one trader or manufacturer constructs one end of a road while another trader continues from there is now history.
“It is not because there are no longer public spirited individuals but because the means are no longer there. The effect of unfavourable and inconsistent government policies makes businessmen and women in my constituency to lose billions of naira of their investments every year. Indigenous manufacturers that import their raw materials, component units for production, among several others are not spared this agony, thus forcing them to shut down. The result is that my constituency, which used to swim in affluence, is now ravaged by poverty leading to rising unemployment, drug abuse and other forms of crime. I have seen it all in this important industry, I will deploy the experience gathered over the years to enhance stable policy framework as it relates to imports and exports”.
He said he will sponsor passage of bills that will promote free enterprise and ease of doing business to check the bottlenecks being suffered in clearing goods.
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