The National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Volta Region has called on the President to fulfil his One district, One factory (1D1F) promise to the people of the region.
The NDC Volta Regional Communications Officer, Mr Kafui Agbleze, in a press release recalled that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo specifically promised to make Ketu South and Ketu North industrial hubs, adding that so far nothing had been achieved in those two constituencies with regard to the promise.
“Nana Addo’s government is already in its third year with absolutely no sign of 1D1F in the Volta Region; and this leaves one to painfully conclude that the 1D1F was just a campaign gimmick without any serious commitment to fulfil them to the people of the Volta Region,” he indicated.
High unemployment in VR
According to him, there were many unemployed youth in the Volta Region who bought into the electoral promise of 1D1F which accounted for the generous votes the NPP had in some constituencies in the region during the 2016 general elections.
According to the party, the flagship policy, which aims at transforming the structure of the economy from one dependent on production and export of raw materials to a value-added industrialised economy, was not having the needed vigour as expected with nothing taking place in the Volta Region.
The President, according to the communications officer at the launch of the 1D1F at Ekumfi in the Central Region, made it clear that there could be no future prosperity for the people in the short, medium or long term if Ghanaians continued to maintain economic structures that were dependent on production and the export of raw materials.
That statement, he indicated, spoke to the peculiar situation of the Volta Region where raw material production abounded with little or no value addition.
Equitable disbursement
“If the GCB’s GH₵1 billion support to the 1D1F was equitably disbursed, it would have provided Gh₵100 million for each of the then ten regions more or less, and that was significant to provide at least one factory of a sort for the Volta Region as well,” he added.
He questioned the commitment level of the President to the call as far as his promise of 1D1F to the people of Volta was concerned, since there were no signs of 1D1F in the region.
The people of the Volta Region, he indicated, were awakening to the fact that the 1D1F is a "promise and fail" initiative without any serious commitment to redeeming it and could best be described as a failed promise.
Source: Daily Graphic
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But the Volta Region said they don't need any 1D1F. Encourage the rich in the Volta Region to initiate action on an identified problem and decide to establish a factory. I believe the government will facilitate such a project. I don't think the 1D1F is just factories being shared by the government to the regions. Ask your MPs to explain to you better and checkmate the propaganda for accelerated development.
Rawlings, Mills and Ford Mahama were in power for about 27 years. They never built a single factory in Volta but you guys continue to vote blindly for the NDC..... Leave NPP to do what pleases them. Just change your voting pattern and it will benefit the region.
Do not disturb us. Wait till your incompetent Ndc come to power
Your party is saying there is nothing going in the project so why are demanding a portion.By time you people realise other of the country are having factories for you to learn a lesson. EyezuEyeza
I pray for the day this region will feel fully integrated into Ghana - The Ghana Project. I've not checked, but off the top of my mind, I know not all regions have had at least one factory yet. It is not as if all the regions have got factories and the volta region has been sidelined. And by the way, the factories are not being distributed to regions from the top. The factories come from the ground up - in the sense that the private sector must first find reason to take up an existing opportunity in the region and build the business case up to the national level. Hello my family members in the volta region, please let's think Ghana and not REGION. Let's think what we can do for Ghana and not what Ghana can do FOR OUR REGION! And please stop the NDC this time around, from the covert instigations and underground work. They never mean well for Ghana!
he should tell us which one of the factories already started should not have been started but rather located in the Volta Region? Tribalism is a symptom of insecurity. Factories take time t build. Are the people of VOlta region not benefiting from the fee SHS programme? patience is a virtue!