Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa is briefed by Morogoro Oil
Processing Company (Moproco) general manager Arif Abood on the purification of
sunflower oil when Mr Majaliwa visited the Moproco factory in Morogoro
yesterday. Centre is Morogoro District Commissioner Regina Chonjo.
In Summary
The Premier made the remark yesterday in Morogoro during a
visit to several industries, adding that many firms became defunct because of
competition of their products with those from outside.
Morogoro. The
Prime Minister, Mr Kassim Majaliwa has vowed to take action against ministries
and institutions that import products, which are also produced in the country.
The Premier made the remark yesterday in Morogoro during a
visit to several industries, adding that many firms became defunct because of
competition of their products with those from outside.
Mr Majaliwa said despite quality products being produced
locally, customers have been preferring to buy imported products. He promised
that the fifth phase government would strive to control imports by increasing
tax.
While at Morogoro Oil Processing Company (Moproco), the
Prime Minister urged residents to cultivate sunflower because of its value in
the market.
He also called upon Tanzanians in general to use locally
manufactured goods in order to protect internal industries.
This, he said, will enable the fifth phase government’s
ambitious goal of transforming the country into an industrial economy. The
director of Abood Companies, which owns Moproco, Mr Abdulaziz Abood promised to
revive his soap industry and offer employment opportunities by January, 2018.
“I will give priority to women when it comes to employment followed by young
men because the former have always been asking me to employ them,” said Mr
Abood.
At a cigarette-making company-- Philips Moris, Mr Majaliwa
directed tobacco firms in the country to stop purchasing tobacco from the
farmers by using the US dollar currency and refrain from preventing other
foreign companies from purchasing the crop product in the country. For his
part, the minister for Industry and Trade, Mr Charles Mirage, who accompanied
the Prime Minister, issued a directive that all privatised industries should
operate by considering what people want.
The minister for State in Prime Minister’s Office (Policy,
Parliament, Labour, Youth, Employment and the Disabled), Ms Jenister Mhagama
said plants under construction and those being revived in the country aim at
getting rid of unemployment and making full use of raw materials produced in
the country.
Credit: The Citizen
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