Artisans urged to abide by time management | Ghana News Agency (GNA)

By Samuel Dodoo, GNA      
Accra, April 7, GNA – Mr Frank Joe Coleman, an opinion leader has advised artisans to abide by time management to build trust in their customers.
He said: “the Bible says, there is time to be born and a time to die” and therefore, artisans must be serious with the way they manage their time to avoid disappointing their cherished clienteles.
Mr Coleman gave the advice when six seamstresses at the Korle Gonno Zone of the Ghana National Tailors and Dressmakers Association (GNTDA) graduated.
He said: “Tailors and seamstresses are the ones who make us look beautiful for occasions but you keep disappointing your customers, and that does not speak well of you. I will entreat you to from henceforth, stop disappointing your customers and make sure you abide by the timelines you give to your work, since time is of essence.”
He asked artisans to honour their tax obligation, saying that, government uses the taxes collected to develop the country while urging them to keep their environment clean and avoid throwing rubbish around indiscriminately.
Mr Stanley Tetteh, the Chairman of the Korle Gonno Zone of the GNTDA called on the parents of the graduates to assist them carry out what they have learnt for them to become useful and beneficial to the family and the nation as a whole.
He advised the graduates to hold their profession in high esteem and avoid idling around.
Mr Tetteh gave the assurance that the GNTDA would work and support the government in the development of the country.
Miss Faustina Lamptey, who emerged winner in a context among the seamstresses was awarded with an industrial sewing machine while the second, third, received electric sewing machine, iron and ironing board respectively.
The Native Tribe (Wormanne), a young men and women group in Accra, which promotes made in Ghana wear, African culture and youth empowerment sponsored the programme.
Mr George Apreku, Chairman of Native Tribe in an interview with the Ghana News Agency said they were in the move to change the negative perception of communities like Korle Gonno, Mamprobi and Chorkor, hence, the support to the graduation of the seamstresses.
He said they have started putting up an Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) centre at Korle Gonno to train student in the area and they were planning to hold the second African Wear Festival in September, at Korle Gonno, Roger Avenue.