Investor urges government to provide enabling environment for small-scale businesses

Dai Ding Ping, managing director of Lifetime furniture limited has urged the federal government to boost Nigeria business environment by encouraging small-scale businesses in the country.

Ping who made the call during the firm’s exhibition in Benin City, however described Edo State as a business friendly state and a good location for businesses to grow.

“The location is very good. Many people are interested in our furniture. We produced our products here.

“Government can help to make economy better. Many materials we cannot get here, we import them. I hope Nigeria business environment can become better he and best so that many small companies can product for us.

“We can then make a chain and buy from here. We hope to get all our materials from the Nigeria market. We do not want to import anything from China or any other countries. We will do our best to make our products affordable it we place high premium on good quality”, he said.

He added that the exhibition was geared towards testing the market in the state.

While also describing Edo state as a very good place, he noted that no firm would want to import any materials for production if companies were available to produce the needed materials.

He also added that plans are underway by the company to open warehouses and showroom for its products in the state after the exhibition.

The boss of the Benin based furniture firm however added that the organization sponsored para table tennis tournament during the period of the exhibition as a way of giving back to the people.

He disclosed that the prizes would be given to winners of the tournament at the end of the exhibition.

IDRIS UMAR MOMOH,  Benin