President John Dramani Mahama on Thursday highlighted his government’s commitment to the operationalization of the Komenda Sugar Factory in the Central Region.
He noted that he asked the Minister of Trade, Agribusiness, and Industry to update him with the Komenda Sugar Factory. “We are determined to proceed and continue with that project so that the Central Region will become the biggest producer of sugar in Ghana,” President Mahama said at a durbar of the Chiefs and People of the Central Region in Cape Coast during his Thank You Tour of the Region.
The nationwide tour, which began on Friday, January 24, in Ho, the Volta Regional Capital is to enable the President to express his sincere appreciation to the people of Ghana for the overwhelming support and trust reposed in him at the 2024 elections.
The President with Vice President Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, who earlier inspected the abandoned Anomabo Fisheries College project, said the project was a dream of the late President John Evans Atta Mills. He said the project was packaged and work was started, and it was at an advanced stage of completion for the first phase when they left office.
“It is unacceptable that for eight years that project has been abandoned and has not been continued,” the President said. He noted that the 2025 budget was going to be ready in March, and that they were going to make provision in the budget to continue the project so that by the end of this year, they would open that College for students.
President Mahama said upon completion, the project would be handed over to the University of Cape Coast and would be put under the Faculty of Agriculture to provide degrees in fishing and training in aquaculture. He said the Government would also work closely to upgrade the facilities at the Cape Coast Hospital so that it could indeed be a real Teaching Hospital for the University of Cape Coast Medical School.
Source: GNA
