Democracy Day: Konga challenges Nigeria on e-commerce ……..celebrates Konga Me

As the country commemorate this year’s democracy day, leading e-commerce company Konga has challenged the country to embark more on electronical trading for economic growth.

In a statement released and signed by the firm’s Head of Corporate Commuications, Zinox Technologies, Mr Gideon Ayogu, it acknowledged the significant development and governance that the system of government has brought to the country while urging the country’s policy makers to invest in the e-commerce for more divided of democracy.
According to the statement, with its booming youthful population, growing internet access and an aspirational mindset among the majority of its populace, e-commerce in Nigeria is widely regarded as e-commerce in Nigeria is widely regarded as the next big thing; an industry that could transform even the most hopeless start-up to a multi-million dollar company in a couple of years.
However, he noted that the Nigerian business terrain, democratic though it may be, is a tough one to successfully navigate.
“Aside the near-absence of any form of government support for the technology sector, in which e-commerce is firmly situated, start-ups in this industry face a herculean battle to stay afloat. It is a battle akin to swimming against a strong tide.
“For long regarded as a potential cash-cow, e-commerce in Nigeria has seen the influx of a number of entrants or players, foreign and local, all of whom capitalized on the freedom and democratization of access to take roots, spread their tentacles and attempt to reap the windfall from an industry that has been severally predicted to explode.
“Here in Nigeria, e-commerce is democracy; a democratic rule governed by offering the average shopper a range of shopping platforms, online and offline; a multiplicity of payment options: cash, online payment, e-wallet, etc. and delivery solutions that guarantee no late delivery stories.
The company said its company remained resolute in delivering quality product which they attributed to its modeled platform of “Konga me”.
They admitted that the platform is to further bring quality and efficient service delivery to their prospective customers.
“Konga Me is a new universal language for genuine products only.“It is a term that has become popular, not only among young ones, but among adults and trendy youths to differentiate quality products from fake ones sourced from unreliable platforms.
“Used to refer quality-minded shoppers to Konga, the e-commerce giant that emerged from the merger between Yudala and Konga after the latter’s acquisition by the Zinox Group.
“Konga Me is also used to request for quality gifts or favours from friends, family and associates”, the report stated.
The firm also congratulated Nigerians for an uninterrupted 19years democracy in the country which they described as a leading figure for other countries in the continent.