Abia Governor To Send 100 Shoe Makers To China For Training To Set Up Abia State Shoe Factory

Thirty shoe cobblers in Abia State will leave for the Peoples Republic of China on Friday to acquire more knowledge in their field.

The Governor of Abia State, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu on Monday January 1, during a state broadcast to the people of the state announced that 30 shoemakers from Abia would be departing for the People’s Republic of China on Friday, 5.


Ikpeazu stated that the 30 persons whose majority, The Nation gathered are from Ariaria International market, Aba were the 1st batch of 100 shoemakers from Abia State to undergo intensive training in automated shoemaking technology in China and stated that the state government upon the return of the trainees would procure the full range of equipments required to set up an Abia State Automated Shoe Factory in Aba.

The governor added that the youths would form the nucleus of the workforce in the shoe Factory which shall be commissioned before June 2018