President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has commissioned the Bodukwan Multi-Fruit processing Factory, a project operating under the Government’s One District One Factory initiative.
Commissioning the factory on Tuesday, 1st December 2020, on day 2 of his 3-day tour of the Ashanti Region, the President told the gathering, which included the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, that the One District One Factory (1D1F) initiative is in fulfillment of a 2016 campaign promise, whose aim is to establish, together with the private sector, at least one industrial enterprise in each of the administrative districts of the country.
The President commended Otumfuo Asantehene, Ghana EXIM Bank, and the Ministry of Trade and Industry for their collaboration in establishing the GH¢45 million projects, which is expected to provide direct employment for over one hundred (100) people and generate at least one thousand (1,000) indirect job opportunities particularly for the youth of this area.