“ASSPPON Ogba is the only print association recognized by Lagos state government, Mushin and Shomolu are not recognized” … this statement was made by Mr. Sepkene Godfrey Ochiemen, the former Vice Chairman of the Association of Printing Practitioners of Nigeria, Ogba branch of the association during an interview session with the Printers Digest magazine at the Chartered Institute of Professional Printers of Nigeria (CIPPON) Nationwide printers’ enumeration and registration exercise at Ogba area of Lagos State.
Sepkene commended CIPPON president, Mr. Olugbemi Malomo’s lead administration, and the council members for the exercise which he said came late but better late than never.
He added, “if they’ve started early, they would have been able to redefine the system and bring out the real professional printers, but it’s better late than never. We can see the present council impact, and the membership registration exercise will help to tackle the challenges facing the printing industry thereby eradicating nonprofessional printers from our sector. 
More jobs will start come to the professionals as against what we currently have where everyone is a printer in Nigeria, people walk up to the office and speak their normal language to get the job, I might do the job anyhow because of the paltry sum of money I’m going to collect for the job, I might do the job anyhow, so efficiency and quality will be lost”.
Sekpene went ahead to express his dissatisfaction over the defunct CIPPON council that he paid for registration and was never issued his certificate to date.
He also added that the CIPPON strategic compliance with the government to ensure that printers must present their license before any printer could be offered a job is a great idea for the industry, the reason is that the time will come for that license will be an avenue for them to access the enablement of printing in Nigeria because as at now they cannot really access the development and the equipment of printing in Nigeria but when the core professionals are into it now they’ll be able to see printing as a profession and as a business.
Advising the current CIPPON council, he encouraged them to put more effort and more commitment to the already great work they are doing. He said: “The Ogba branch of ASSPPON is a stakeholder in the Nigerian printing industry. It is not Shomolu and Mushin as the majority claimed. ASSPPON Ogba is the only print association that is recognized by the Lagos State government, and Mushin and Shomolu aren’t recognized. We went through some processes to achieve this registration, that’s why Lagos state government can give our members loan close to 400,000 Naira”.
