Traders of Adire fabrics within the Ogun State have known as for an finish to the importation of adulterated Chinese adire within the native markets.
The merchants disclosed this whereas embarking on an advocacy stroll in Abeokuta, sensitizing patrons and sellers on the hazard of patronizing adulterated Chinese adire.
The merchants urged Governor Dapo Abiodun to ban the gross sales of Chinese adire to protect the state’s cultural heritage.
Addressing journalists, one of the merchants, Ogunfidodo Michael, lamented that the incursion of adulterated Chinese adire into the native market “Is pushing the locally made adire into extinction.
“We are trying to sensitize our people to know the dangerous effect of wearing the look-like adire fabrics. It is a synthetic cloth that is paramount all over; people think it is adire, but it is not adire”, he said.
