{"id":712122,"date":"2019-09-28T09:40:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T09:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/28\/buy-t-roll-locally-bawumia-directs\/"},"modified":"2019-09-28T09:40:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T09:40:35","slug":"buy-t-roll-locally-bawumia-directs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/28\/buy-t-roll-locally-bawumia-directs\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy T-Roll Locally &#8211; Bawumia Directs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>James Topp Yankah (left), Founder and Managing Director of Brempton Portfolio Gruop Limited at Nsawam Prison, showing Dr Mahamudu Bawumia the products<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Government has issued a new<br \/>\ndirective for all state-owned institutions to purchase toilet rolls from local<br \/>\nmanufacturing companies.<\/p>\n<p>The directive takes effect from<br \/>\nthe beginning of the next procurement cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia<br \/>\nissued the directive when he visited a toilet roll manufacturing company\u2014Brompton<br \/>\nPortfolio\u2014at the Nsawam<br \/>\nPrisons in the Eastern Region on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The company, which is located<br \/>\nin the prison yard with inmates as workers, is part of five new toilet roll<br \/>\nmanufacturing companies established under\u00a0<br \/>\ngovernment\u2019s \u2018One District, One Factory\u2019 (1D1F) initiative. <\/p>\n<p>It, therefore, brings to 14 the<br \/>\nnumber of toilet roll manufacturing companies in the country, with nine already<br \/>\nin existence before the New Patriotic Party (NPP) came to power, thereby increasing<br \/>\nthe production capacity of Ghana to about 50%.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice-President said, \u201cThis<br \/>\nis very significant, and this is the reason why we have to support the local<br \/>\nindustry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reason<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we are now satisfied with<br \/>\nis that Ghana now, in fact, has sufficient capacity to meet a large amount of<br \/>\nits demand for products like toilet rolls,\u201d he indicated. Continuing, he said,<br \/>\n\u201cSo we are saying that from the next procurement cycle, all government<br \/>\ninstitutions, whether it is the military, the police, hospitals or schools \u2026 if<br \/>\nyou are going to buy toilet rolls, all must be bought from local manufacturing<br \/>\ncompanies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Vice-President stated that<br \/>\nhe was confident the decision would engender job creation and foreign exchange<br \/>\nto grow the economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe import bill for toilet<br \/>\nroll last year alone was $70 million \u2026 and we are importing from countries such<br \/>\nas Vietnam, Honduras, Panama, Bahamas, Marshall Islands and all over,\u201d he<br \/>\nadded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Commitment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Founder and Managing<br \/>\nDirector of Brompton Portfolio, James Topp Yankah, vouched for the quality of<br \/>\ntheir products, saying \u201cwe are ensuring that 30% of all our profits go towards<br \/>\nthe rehabilitation of the Ghana Prisons Service, because as we know there are prisons<br \/>\nreforms that are needed and these require money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat they need to realise is<br \/>\nthat we are a company that believes in socio-economic projects; once we get the<br \/>\nnecessary support, we are also going to support a lot of social courses in<br \/>\nGhana and that\u2019s the objective of this project,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bawumia was accompanied by the Deputy Minister for the Interior, Henry Quartey, and his colleague Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry, Robert Ahomka-Lindsay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Charles Takyi-Boadu, Presidential Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Topp Yankah (left), Founder and Managing Director of Brempton Portfolio Gruop Limited at Nsawam Prison, showing Dr Mahamudu Bawumia the products Government has issued a new directive for all state-owned institutions to purchase toilet rolls from local manufacturing companies. The directive takes effect from the beginning of the next procurement cycle. Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":712123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Buy T-Roll Locally - Bawumia Directs - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/28\/buy-t-roll-locally-bawumia-directs\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Buy T-Roll Locally - Bawumia Directs - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"James Topp Yankah (left), Founder and Managing Director of Brempton Portfolio Gruop Limited at Nsawam Prison, showing Dr Mahamudu Bawumia the products Government has issued a new directive for all state-owned institutions to purchase toilet rolls from local manufacturing companies. 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