As the debate on the importation
of packaged tomato paste rages, Raheem Akingbolu wonders if the federal
government is serious about its ban in order to boost the activities of
local manufacturers and protect consumers from buying substandard goods
One of the promises that elated
Nigerians, especially local manufacturers and consumers when the current
administration came on board was the assurance that government would do
anything humanly possible to promote made-in-Nigeria goods. For the
local manufacturers of tomato paste, whose businesses had suffered for
years in the hands of unscrupulous businessmen, who import substandard
paste from China and other Asian countries at cheaper price into the
market, the news was a relief.
