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The standard-bearer of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) has indicated that his administration will reactivate more than 50 collapsed factories established by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, to promote an aggressive agenda of job creation.
Mr. Ivor Kobina Greenstreet said that the CPP under the leadership of Dr. Nkurmah, Ghana’s first president, established many manufacturing factories to boost the economy.
However, successive governments had witnessed the collapse of all factories as the youth unemployment rate soured in the country.
Greenstreet, who was addressing CPP worshipers at a once-vibrant match factory facility in Kade, in the eastern region, as part of a campaign visit, said it was a shame that “today we are exporting everything , including matches and toothpicks capacity and what it takes to produce them here ”and called for mass votes for the CPP for a change in that direction.
The CPP standard-bearer mentioned Anomabo Citrus Factory, Ellembelle Vegetable Oil Factory, Eveready Batteries in the Huni Valley, a Fish Processing Factory, Akwatia Diamonds Company Limited, Pomadze Poultry Farms and Slaughterhouses, the Corporation of Kade matches, the new match factory in Akim Oda and Akosombo textiles. limited as some of the factories that will be reactivated to create jobs for the crowd of young people when they vote for power.
Greenstreet recalled that the Kade match factory was established in 1964 and supplied matches to no less than 10 African countries, he said, adding that by 1966, it was one of the world’s leading match producers and wondered why successive governments had allowed the factory will continue to deteriorate.
He said that the CPP had an enviable record as the only party that could build a resilient economy based on industrialization and called on the electorate not to be swayed by the political talks of the NDC and the PNP, which had nothing to offer Ghanaians. and that they vote. en masse for the CPP on December 7, to create jobs for youth and put Ghana on a solid economic path.
Greenstreet said it was about time Ghanaians gave the CPP, which was a proven political party, a chance to save the ailing economy that relied heavily on imports to an export-driven economy with better prospects for the people. .
The standard-bearer said that the achievement of the CPP under President Nkrumah alone should convince Ghanaians to vote for the CPP by mentioning the Adomi Bridge, the Tema Highway, the Akosombo Dam and the huge educational infrastructure in the 1960s and appealed the electorate to vote for the CPP. December 7th.
