A twenty
members of Parliament selected Committee on Trade, Industry & Industry on
Tuesday paid a working visit to the offices of indigenous mobile manufacturing
plant, rlg Communications to familiarize themselves with their operations.
The visit
was also to create the parties a platform to interact and share ideas on how
best the government could be of help to enable rlg
Communications grow as a
profitable institution in the country and the West African sub-region as a
whole.
The
committee's visit was part of a nationwide tour to local enterprises to learn
at first hand their modus operandi.
The
committee chaired by the Member of
Parliament for Abokobi-Madina, Alhaji Amadu B. Sorogho was taken
through the three departments of the institute; Skills Development &
Training Center, Assembling plants for computers and mobile phones, showroom of
the end products of the institute and the Client Service Unit.
The Client
Service Unit is the department that deals with complaints from the general
public on products manufactured by the company. The training center which
currently has forty-two offices nationwide is the pivot of rlg
Communications. It trains students recruited from the districts
through the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) for six months.
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students who passed out good grades are absorbed into the main stream working
body of the company while the others are resourced to set up their own
businesses. That of the assembling plant fixes hard drives and other
accessories of desktop and laptop computers with the mobile phone section doing
a similar work.
Commenting
at the tour, Alhaji Sorogho entreated the students to make the best use of
the training they were receiving to enable them contribute immensely to the
development of the country when pass out.
He was full
of praise for the rapid development of the company; a situation he noted has
become a shining example for other African countries. He therefore, urged other
local businesses to "emulate the good works of rlg Communications by
stepping up their activities."
However, he
urged the company to expand their offices and bring together all their
departments under one roof. Also commenting on the tour was the MP for Subin
and Ranking Member of the committee, Isaac Osei who called the need for competition among local
businesses.
"We
need more companies replicating what rlg is doing and this will bring about
better quality of products to the consuming public," he noted. According to him, the
performance of rlg Communications was a clear testimony that "Ghana could
move away from a nation of traders to a nation of producers."
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