The former Central Regional Chairman of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Allotey Jacobs, has said, “Initially, we took the one district one factory for a joke but we’ve realised that it can employ a whole lot of communities”.
Mr Jacobs, who joined President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to officially open the Ekumfi Fruit and Juices factory as well as Casa de Ropa potato factories in the Central Region, told journalists that they should not be “surprised seeing me at Ekumfi Fruit Juice and Casa de Ropa [factories]”.
According to him, the two factories are changing the lives of the locals in the Central region citing Ekumfi alone, where, he said “almost about 600 workers” have been employed as a result of the fruit juice factory.
One District One Factory also known as 1D1F is a Government of Ghana policy. It is aimed at creating jobs for Ghanaians through the setting up of factories and industries which will, in turn, move the country towards greater industrialization.
Source: TheBBCghana.Com
