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DFP to establish Gari Factories
Awutu-Panim (C/R), Jan. 7, GNA- The Democratic Freedom Party
(DFP) has plans to produce Gari in large quantities for
export to generate adequate revenue for the country when
given the mandate to rule the nation.
Apart from the immense economic returns the nation would
get, the move would help solve the unemployment problem
confronting the nation as it would offer millions of the
jobless youth in the regions permanent employment.
To ensure the fulfilment of this dream, the party plans to
provide each of the ten regions, a giant Gari Processing
Factory and encourage cassava growers to produce more to
feed the proposed industries by offering them a better deal.
Mr. John Amekah, Deputy General Secretary of the DFP said
these when he addressed a cross-section of people, including
farmers, fishermen and DFP regional executives at
Awutu-Panim, near Ayensuako, in the Central Region.
The meeting was to explain the aims and objectives of the
party to people in and around Awutu-Panim, who are mostly
cocoa and food crops farmers.
Mr. Amekah attributed the failure of the Ayensu Starch
Factory at Awutu-Bawjiase to lack of proper planning by the
initiators, adding that when DFP takes over the
administration of the country and set up the proposed Gari
factories, cassava growers would be worth their salt.
He said that the country could produce millions, if not
billions of tonnes of gari to famine-threatened African
countries annually to generate enough revenue to cushion her
economy, adding that if succeeding governments had thought
of it and initiated moves towards that decades ago.
Besides, the commodity could also be exported to some
Western and Middle-East countries for greater economic
returns if proper feasibility studies were carried out in
those countries to secure a lasting market for the
commodity.
Mr. Amekah described as untrue, the perception by some
leading politicians that no political group can
solve the numerous socio-economic problems facing the
nation single-handedly.
He maintained that, "the mere fact that the two leading
political parties, NDC and NPP have, as yet, not been able
to secure the right antidote for the country's economic
woes, does not imply that no political group could do so".
The Deputy General Secretary said that the DFP has got the
answer for the country's economic and other predicaments and
asked the electorate to give the DFP the nod in the
forthcoming Presidential and Parliamentary elections in
2008.
He said the DFP would unite the people, irrespective of
their political, religious and ethnic backgrounds, to ensure
effective national cohesion and progress all the time.
Professor E. S, Okyne, a founding member of the DFP, who
chaired the function, also assured Ghanaians of the party's
determination to salvage the nation from its socio-economic
predicament.
GNA
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