President Akufo-Addo cutting the tape to inaugurate the factory
President Akufo-Addo yesterday inaugurated a diaper manufacturing company at Bortianor in the Greater Accra Region.
The company, Sunda Manufacturing Limited, is a Chinese company that bought into government’s initiative – One District, One Factory (1D1F) – to construct a factory each in the 254 districts in the country.
It therefore forms part of the 1D1F initiative by government aimed at creating employment for the country’s teeming youth, as part of a bigger effort towards industrialisation.
Sunda Ghana Limited is the biggest diaper manufacturing company in the whole of Africa.
Speaking at a colourful ceremony at the factory which is located at Bortianor in the Ga South District on the last day of his tour of the Greater Accra Region, an obviously elated President Akufo-Addo said this should send a message to his political opponents especially the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that he is not just interested in mere talking.
Instead, he said his only interest is to deliver the promises he and his party made to the people of Ghana in 2016.
He therefore asked Ghanaians to keep faith with him since he has managed to turn round the economy of Ghana from the poor state the NDC left it.
Trade Minister, Alan Kyerematen, announced a five-year tax holidays for foreign investors who would participate in the 1D1F initiative.
The ministry has identified 10 new strategic areas in agriculture to explore. He therefore asked Ghanaians to support the government in its activities.
Earlier, the President commissioned an assembly building and school complex at Anyaa and later inspected a factory at Tomefa that belongs to Everpure Ghana Limited, producers of purified drinking water.
By Charles Takyi-Boadu, Presidential Correspondent