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28.07.2010 Business & Finance

rLG covers phone product’ vendors under ‘Umbrella’ project

By Kofi Adu Domfeh
rLG covers phone product vendors under Umbrella project
28.07.2010 LISTEN

rLG Communication is extending its umbrella project to cover vendors of mobile telecom products and other young persons interested in venturing mobile phone merchandising.

The company is currently deploying 6,000 umbrellas in all districts of Ghana to directly engage personnel under the ICT module of the National Youth Employment Programme.

This is in line with rLG Communication's target to employ 30,000 youth at the company's phone assembling plant and the sales under the umbrella project by 2012.

Over 100 umbrellas are already up in operations in Kumasi and other parts of the Ashanti region.

Speaking to Luv Fm in Kumasi, Chief Executive Officer of rLG Communication, Roland Agambire, said the company's visibility through the umbrella project also affords mobile telecom operators the platform to activate their subscribers or register their SIM cards.

He says in addition to the NYEP beneficiaries, vendors of mobile telecom products can access the opportunities in the telecom sub-sector to maximize sales. “Six thousand youth will be employed at the end of 2010. The rest will also start their training from 2011 and by 2012, we would have deployed 30, 000. This umbrella project is one of the surest ways that the youth of this country through the NYEP can be employed directly into the sales vendoring programme with rLGs vision of giving financial freedom to the youth of this country” the rLG CEO stated.

Mr. Agambire is impressed with the reception of Ghanaian public since the launch of the rLG mobile phone assembly plant last May. “People are appreciative of our works and we keep on increasing our tally in terms of the modules we bring out onto the market and we've seen great responses. We are seeing a lot of enthusiasm in the Ghanaian society driven by the fact that rLG is also giving them the right products, based on the trust and the hope they have that this is an indigenous Ghanaian company, which is supposed to generate employment and income and pay taxes right here in Ghana”, he said.

Mr. Agambire noted the rLG model is the surest way to provide sustainable jobs for the country.

Story by Kofi Adu Domfeh

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