More than 80,000 shoes, bag, belt and trunk box manufacturers in Aba, Abia State, the industrial hub of the South-Eastern Nigeria, are choked by poor access to finance and sub-standard raw materials, often imported from China.
They also reel under the heavy weight of cheap finished Asian products
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