The Bongo District in the Upper East Region is to establish a shea butter processing factory, under the One District One Factory initiative, the District Chief Executive (DCE) of Bongo, Mr Peter Ayinbisa Ayamga, has disclosed.
He said the Business Advisory Centre (BAC) and the Rural Enterprise Programme have finalised the documentation process for the construction of the factory, which would start this month, at Bong-Bogrigo, a suburb of Bongo.
The DCE announced these at the Bongo District’s turn of the Meet the Press Series, on Friday, to explain the implementation of government’s flagship programmes and other social interventions to journalists and the citizenry, at Bongo.
Mr Ayamga said the factory would create more than 200 jobs for the youth, adding that already 50 youth from the area have been selected to manage the factory when it commenced operation.
He said the factory would also boost the growth and development of the local economy of the district.
Mr Ayamga said that agriculture, which is the main sector has improved due to the implementation of the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJs) programme.
He revealed that 12,953 farmers have benefitted from the programme in the district over the past three years.
Mr Ayamga said 102 people have received goats, sheep, Guinea fowl among others under the Rearing for Food and Jobs.
He said the construction of 1,000 metric tonnes capacity warehouse, under the One District One Warehouse was about 80 per cent completed.
Mr Ayamga stated that the Assembly had also constructed a Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) Compound at Sanibisi, while the expansion of Namoo Health Centre and the construction of a CHPS compound at Nayorigo community were ongoing.
He said that under Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), the assembly with funding from the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF), had constructed 10 boreholes with hand pumps for 10 communities while six other boreholes with pumps were also being constructed for communities under the One Million Dollars per Constituency programme.
Mr Ayamga said that 47 communities would benefit from electricity projects by the Ministry of Energy before the end of 2020 in addition to street lights in the district’s capital before the end of December 2019.
On job creation, the DCE indicated that more than 1,000 people, mostly the youth in the area have been provided jobs under the Nation Builders Corps (NaBCo), education, health and Youth Employment Authority.
He said about 300 people in the district have been selected to benefit from capacity building training in smock weaving, and that the government would support them with start-up capital, to empower themselves economically.
FROM SAMUEL AKAPULE, BONGO
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