NGOZI, March 26th (ABP) – The permanent executive secretary of the administrator of Ruhororo Commune, in Ngozi province, Mr. Adelin Misuraganyi, says that the industrial sector is making a major contribution to the country’s development and to the fight against unemployment.
He was speaking during a visit by students from the Command and Staff College on Wednesday, 19 March 2025, to NAFI Garment Factory, which manufactures training clothes in the commune.
The purpose of the visit was to find out how the company operates and how it goes about complying with environmental standards, according to local sources.
Those soldiers were delighted with the activities of that company, which is contributing to the development of the industrial sector in Burundi.
Mr Misuraganyi pointed out that NAFI was helping a great deal to make unemployed young people employable.
His advice to those young people is to apply that knowledge at home. He promised that the local administration would spare no effort to facilitate the company’s work.
Maurice Ndihokubwayo, Managing Director of NAFI Garment Factory, says the company was set up to curb second-hand clothing.
In the future, he plans to extend the company to other provinces in the country, in order to produce enough to meet national demand and export to bring in foreign currency for the country, thereby helping to achieve the national vision of making Burundi an emerging country by 2040 and a developed country by 2060.
However, Ndihokubwayo did not forget to point out the major challenges facing the company. In particular, he deplored the recurrent power cuts that slow down operations, and the lack of foreign currency to import raw materials, which leads to technical lay-offs. He also deplored the double taxation on imports and sales of their finished products. He called on the government to make it easier for the company to import its products, and to exempt it from taxation in the first instance. NAFI Garment Factory is due to start operations in 2021.