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Leader of the United Front Party, Akwasi Addai Odike has clashed with an Angel FM Radio presenter Alibaba over his failure to deliver on his promise to deliver four factories under the One District, One Factory programme.
Akwasi Addai Odike is one of the business people who promised to partner the government with the government’s initiative to help provide jobs for the teeming unemployed Ghanaians.
He promised he was going to build four factories to help reduce unemployment.
“I will do four of the 1-district- 1-factory,” he confidently stated. Enumerating his factories and where they would be located, Odike said the defunct Bolga Meat Factory in the Upper East Region would be revived to create more jobs. He said the factory will produce beef and leather to feed shoe industries and corned beef for the market.
He added that he is also setting up a shoe factory in Ahodwo or Santase in Kumasi to also create jobs for the youth in Kumasi. Odike added: “I have secured a land at Akomadan to establish tomato paste.
We shall grow more tomato and produce tomato paste…we are talking to some Turkish [investors] to help us and we shall do that at Akomadan or Afram plains.”
He further added that he has a “garment factory also in Kumasi which was small scale.
I want to expand it to employ more because it is currently employing about 120 workers”. He said he wants to produce more cotton and “add value here so that we don’t have to export cotton”.
Leader of the United Front Party, Akwasi Addai Odike has clashed with an Angel FM Radio presenter Alibaba over his failure to deliver on his promise to deliver four factories under the One District, One Factory programme.
Akwasi Addai Odike is one of the business people who promised to partner the government with the government’s initiative to help provide jobs for the teeming unemployed Ghanaians.
He promised he was going to build four factories to help reduce unemployment.
“I will do four of the 1-district- 1-factory,” he confidently stated. Enumerating his factories and where they would be located, Odike said the defunct Bolga Meat Factory in the Upper East Region would be revived to create more jobs. He said the factory will produce beef and leather to feed shoe industries and corned beef for the market.
He added that he is also setting up a shoe factory in Ahodwo or Santase in Kumasi to also create jobs for the youth in Kumasi. Odike added: “I have secured a land at Akomadan to establish tomato paste.
We shall grow more tomato and produce tomato paste…we are talking to some Turkish [investors] to help us and we shall do that at Akomadan or Afram plains.”
He further added that he has a “garment factory also in Kumasi which was small scale.
I want to expand it to employ more because it is currently employing about 120 workers”. He said he wants to produce more cotton and “add value here so that we don’t have to export cotton”.
However, after seven years of the New Patriotic Party being in power, these factories promised by Odike haven’t seen the light of day.
When he was asked if he could be trusted after his failure to deliver the factories, Odike said “this is my private business so why do you want to make it public? If someone secures a bank loan and uses it for business why should it be a public matter? You need to learn as a Journalist because you are clearly an empty person. If you do your research you won’t be asking me these useless questions,” he said.