COVID-19: Kazz Kazzian Fashion CEO, Ahmed Urges CBN To Give Financial Aid To Designers

Nigerian fashion designer, Kazz Kazzian, has urged the.Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to provide stimulus package  to .the fashion design industry, in order to  save up and coming  designers from running aground in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic. 

Speaking in an interview with reporters, the CEO and Founder of the  Kazzian Fashion brand,  Abiose Sunkanmi Ahmed, said not a few fashion designers have been going through trying times because of the harsh economic realities brought about by the global pandemic that forced worldwide lockdown in March to May. 

As businesses try to reopen and return to the new normal, the founder of the Kazzian luxury brand, who has designed top-notch clothes for the  likes of music sensations, Davido  and Banky  W,  said it was imperative for the  Central Bank of Nigeria to extend financial aid to the fashion design industry. 

Narrating how the fashion design industry  has played a key role in helping to grow the nation’s economy and take youths off the unemployment market , Abiose Sunkanmi Ahmed, said the prevailing COVID-19 environment, has necessitated the need for the injection of funds by the CBN to stem the tide of unemployment, underemployment and bankruptcy of fashion design houses. 

According to  Abiose Sunkanmi Ahmed, “the federal government needs to extend financial lifeline to the fashion design industry because of the key role that this creative sector plays in the  economic growth of Nigeria. 

“As a sector,  a lot of Nigerians, are taken off the unemployment market and majority of them get empowered and in turn,  also empower others to become independent and self reliant. 

“Given the sensitive role we play in the economy of our great country,  it is only expedient for the CBN to also advance to the fashion design industry,  the same palliative packages it has given other sectors of the  economy”, added Kazz Kazzian. 

On how he has been able to rise above the economic problems caused by the global pandemic,  Kazz Kazzian, who sees himself as a fashion designer par-excellence said: “The  thing is that one has always been progressive in thinking and action.  I have always been an advocate of long-term planning  and with hard work,  creativity and insightful planning,  I have been able to keep this brand afloat”