Mr. Emmanuel Kwadwo Agyekum, Nkoranza Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), at the weekend advocated quality customer services, to promote business activities and to increase productivity.
He advised business people to treat their customers with integrity and humility to promote their businesses.
Mr. Agyekum was speaking at the third graduation ceremony of Nkoranza branch of the National Association of Beauticians and Hairdressers, at Nkoranza.
The MCE advised the hairdressers to be disciplined and to show respect to their patrons in order to attract more customers.
Mr. Agyekum called on the unemployed youth to learn vocations to acquire skills that would help them to enhance their living standards.
Mr. Kwame Amporfo-Twumasi, Member of Parliament for Nkoranza South, commended the master-trainers for training the apprentices to become self-employed, and wished them God’s blessings and success in their endeavours.
He praised parents and guardians of the apprentices for supporting the apprentices to acquire skills.
Madam Margaret Asare, president of the Berekum branch of the association, called on the members to attend the forthcoming annual national conference of the association to be held in Sunyani in June.
She advised the apprentices to put into practice the skills to enable them to earn a living, and appealed to parents of the graduates to help them with start up capital and equipment.
Madam Georgina Oppong, founder of the association, said it was inaugurated in 1994; adding that 95 hairdressers in the area had registered with the association.**