FASHION designers in Jos metropolis have urged  the President-elect, retired Maj.-Gen Mohammadu Buhari, to facilitate the reduction of clothing materials and accessories required for their trade on assumption of office.
They made the call in their separate interviews with newsmen over the weekend  in Jos.
The fashion designers said they had experienced increase in the prices of their goods, a development they attributed to the  various bomb blasts in some markets in Jos in recent years.
They identified Jos Teminal market as one of the biggest markets in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau as one of the markets that bore the greatest brunt of the bombs.
Mr Joseph Ajiji, who specialises in women dresses at Lantana Junction, in Jos North, said the bomb blast left only few suppliers of clothing materials who could not meet up with the high demand of the materials.
“The increase in the price is caused by the bomb blast of last year at Terminus market; most of our customers have relocated to other places.
“The few ones available sell their products at high rates,“ he said.
He called on the incoming government to enforce uniform prices for clothing materials and revamp the public power supply.
Mr Ishaku Gad, a specialist on corporate clothing, said clothing materials and accessories had increased by 35 per cent.
“The increase in dollar rate has affected the prices of materials and some suppliers hoard these materials. They do it so that they can make the materials scarce and subsequently increase the prices.
“The incoming government can intervene by making money available so that more people can supply these materials for us.
“This will also increase employment opportunities for the teeming unemployed youths,” he advised.
Miss Ayong Luka, a seamstress in Jos South, advised the Buhari administration to establish good policies that would make businesses thrive in the country.
She expressed optimism that doing so would lead to increase in revenue and accelerate development of the country.