Cape Coast, Feb 6, – Thirteen
companies have gone through documentation processes to establish factories
under the "one district, one factory” initiative of the government in the
Central Region in 2018.
The factories are expected to
engage in commercial processing and production of salt, bricks and tiles,
plywood tiles, starch, oil palm, bamboo, tomatoes and cassava processing into
industrial ethanol.
Mr Kwamena Duncan, the Regional
Minister who disclosed this at the Central Regional Coordinating Council
Meeting in Cape Coast, said the factories would be established in 10 out of the
20 districts in the region.
The beneficiary Metropolitan,
Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) include; Cape Coast, Twifo Atimokwa,
Twifo-Heman Lower Denkyira, Effutu, Mfatseman, Assin North and South, Agona
East, Gomoa West, and Abura-Aseibu-Kwamankese.
The Regional Minister said the
government’s flagship programme of industrialisation was aimed at creating
congenial business environment to attract investors and create jobs.
He said the one district one
factory policy was aimed at bringing industrialisation to the doorsteps of
people by identifying the economic potentials of each district and using the power
of industry to add value to those resources.
Mr Duncan expressed the readiness
of the Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) to collaborate with interest groups
and individuals to develop the region through industrialisation to create jobs
for the teeming unemployed youth.
“Our region is blessed with a lot
of riches in the form of mineral resources but the challenge is how to turn
these riches into wealth for the benefit of the people,” he said.
He therefore rallied the support
of all stakeholders and called on investors to take advantage of the
government’s 1D1F to invest in region.
Commissioner of Police (COP)
David Nenyi Ampah-Bennin, the Central Regional Police Commander, said the
region was relatively peaceful and assured investors of maximum security and
encouraged them to invest in the region.
He said the Police Command in the
region had mapped out strategies to flash out armed robbers, drug peddlers and
other groups who perpetuated all forms of crimes from their hideouts.
ACOP Ampah-Bennin noted that
industries only thrived in an atmosphere of peace and tranquillity and
re-assured that the Police would be professional in maintaining peace at all
times.
GNA
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