Concord Times
(Freetown)
Alhassan Bah
7 October 2008
Chairman for the ad hoc commission on the marking of products Saturday confirmed that the Sierra Leone indigenous business association, SLIBA was providing loans to its membership in a bid to empower them.
Ibrahim Keh Turay was speaking at a one-day clinic organized by the Sierra Leone resuscitating exporters association at the British Council hall in Freetown when he observed that the seminar would strengthen SLIBA.
He said the exporters' association was formed in 1995 to serve its members and other stakeholders in the export business but said they face finance and banking problems with their members.
"We also face problems with the shipping agencies during shipment," he said.
Executive secretary Victoria Williams encouraged Sierra Leonean businessmen, especially exporters to work as a unified outfit in order to achieve their goals.
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