Participants including exhibitors
and consumers have described the just concluded annual marketplace exhibition
held in Lagos as successful.
Speaking at the event, Head,
Planning committee of the exhibition, Mrs Moji Awokoya noted that the decision
of the church to establish the concept is in line with desire of the overseer
to see to the empowerment of its members. While declaring the fair open, The
initiator of the event,Pastor Taiwo Odukoya explained that the annual
marketplace was borne out of the need to support government in its own little
way as a church by growing enterprise and promoting business through such
intiative..
Odukoya who spoke on the essence of
fair which had been on for a while pointed out that this year’s edition had
recorded remarkable progress when placed side by side with previous editions
She said, ”As you can see, it is
quite successful. All the stalls have been taken. We would have to return money
to a lot of people because of space. We are hoping that next year that it will
even be much bigger and there will be a lot more publicity.
We still have more spaces. Next
year, we don’t have plans of moving it next year.But it will be much bigger
next year”.
Commenting on what is responsible
for the attraction and its impact on small business, Awokoya stated that
consumers within the environment appreciated the gesture and as such responded
in large numbers to partake in the fair.
She said, ”Patronage is one of the
things. It attracts the people within the community.”(vanguard)
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