The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, has been urged to immortalise the late Mallam Isa Funtua by implementing the CBN’s textile revival programme.
The call was made by the Nigerian Textile Manufacturers Association (NTMA) in a statement issued on Friday by its director-general, Alhaji Hamma Kwajaffa.
Kwajaffa said Mallam Funtua was dedicated to the revival of the textile industry through his engagement with the CBN and other stakeholders in ensuring the actualisation of the cotton-textile-garment revival programme of the government.
“Mallam Isa Funtua had been a great pillar in ensuring that the textile industry is back on its feet. He had worked tirelessly to see that the industry is revived and even better than its heyday when the textile industry employed over 500,000 workers and about one million in the cotton sector. The whole value chain employed two million Nigerians around that time in the 1960s and 1970s.
He said the best way to immortalise the memory of the industrialist is to ensure that the programme is properly implemented.
“So, we have to work together to ensure that this revival is properly done and that the whole sector is revived to employ a large number of people again and to industrialise the country,” he added.
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