Senchem(W/R), March 7, GNA - The Mpohor Wassa East District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Anthony Bassaw, has admonished artisans to eschew lies and deceit, and make honesty their trademark.

He said there was a growing perception that tailors, dressmakers, carpenters, and other artisans did not tell their clients the truth, adding that the only way they could maintain and gain more customers was to be honest with their clients.

Mr Bassaw was addressing tailors and dessmakers at a day's workshop at Senchem in the Mpohor Wassa East District of the Western Region. The workshop aimed at upgrading and sharpening the skills of tailors and dressmakers in the area in modern fashion designs and raising their standard to the level of their counterparts in the cities.

It was organized by the Rural Enterprises Project under the Ministry of Trade and Industry in collaboration with the Assembly. Mr Bassaw noted that the training workshop would make their customers have confidence in their work and stop them from travelling to urban centres to sew their clothes thereby improving their businesses.

He advised them to honour their tax obligations to the Assembly since it was the means through which the Assembly could provide the needed social amenities. For his part, the Mpohor Wassa East Director of Rural Enterprises Project, Mr. Daniel Sarpong, congratulated the participants for making time from their busy schedules to attend the workshop. He said his outfit had put measures in place to register all tailors and dressmakers in the district to sit for the National Vocation Technical Institute (NVTI) trade test, saying certificates obtained from NVTI would make their businesses credible.

Mr. Sarpong charged the participants to practice what they had learnt at the workshop, saying that practice made one perfect. The facilitator of the workshop, Mr Elvis Agyekum, who is a lecturer at the Kumasi Polytechnic and Director of Elvon School of Fashion, told the participants to invest in their businesses since it was their source of livelihood. He added that fashion designers must be proud of their profession since no human being needed to wear clothes.