President John Dramani Mahama has stated that the revamping of the Komenda Sugar Factory will bring about more jobs for the teeming unemployed youth.<\/p>\n
Speaking in the Central Region as part of\u00a0his \u201caccounting to the people tour\u201d, President Mahama promised that access road to the sugar factory would\u00a0be awarded on contract to facilitate the smooth movement between adjoining communities.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026Now that the factory is up, we are going to give the road from Komenda junction to Komenda on contract. It will not only come to the factory, it will go all the way to Komenda town and so that is the step of industrializing the country. Step by step we are changing lives in this country and we are transforming Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we are able to encourage sugar growing in this area, the income that will be generated by the young people will be phenomenal and be able to change their lives so that we can produce enough to feed the factory. The factory will produce sugar to cut down the amount of sugar that we import into this country. Any amount of sugar that this factory produces, we will reduce that amount of sugar from coming in through importation.”<\/p>\n
The President also encouraged authorities of the factory to give priority to the youth in the area\u00a0during recruitment.<\/p>\n
Government in April, 2014,\u00a0\u00a0secured a $35-million<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>Indian Exim Bank facility to\u00a0revamp\u00a0the sugar factory.<\/p>\n A\u00a0contract was thus signed with a firm to undertake the civil and engineering works, as well as establish an irrigation scheme for high-yielding sugar cane plantation to feed the factory.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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