{"id":1006601,"date":"2022-02-28T22:06:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T22:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/28\/upper-east-gets-leather-tanning-factory\/"},"modified":"2022-02-28T22:06:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T22:06:44","slug":"upper-east-gets-leather-tanning-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/28\/upper-east-gets-leather-tanning-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper East gets Leather Tanning Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Bolgatanga, Feb. 28, GNA \u2013 A Leather Tanning Factory has been constructed at Yorogo, a community in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region, under Government\u2019s flagship programme; One District, One Factory (1D1F).<\/p>\n
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The factory, which is yet to be equipped, is located about 500 metres from the new abattoir, which is expected to supply the hides for processing.<\/div>\n
Mr Stephen Yakubu, the Upper East Regional Minister, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency after a visit to the factory, emphasised that it belonged to the people of the region so they must own it to ensure its sustainability.<\/div>\n
\u201cPeople say government talks about the 1D1F, but Upper East doesn\u2019t have any at all. We are here today, and I want the media to inform members of the public that 1D1F is in Upper East,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n
\u201cAnd we need to invite more investors to the region to invest in some of these facilities for the teeming youth to get jobs.\u201d<\/div>\n
Mr Yakubu, who could not immediately state the cost of the factory, indicated that it was undertaken by the Ministry of Trade and Industry under the Rural Enterprises Programme.<\/div>\n
He said the full operation of the factory would rake in revenue for the Assembly, while the youth would also be engaged.<\/div>\n
Mr Yakubu said 60 graduates had already been interviewed to work in the factory \u201c…but they are waiting for the machines to be set up so they can start work. I am very sure that these 60 graduates will also employ more people.\u201d<\/div>\n
Shea butter and guinea fowl processing factories were expected to be built in the Bongo District and Bawku Municipality under the 1D1F initiative, he said.<\/div>\n
The Minister called on the media to report on positive stories that would project the region and bring in more investors for development.<\/div>\n
He was accompanied by Mr Rex Asanga, the Bolgatanga Municipal Chief Executive, Alhaji Mahamadu Assibi Azonko, the Chief Director at the Regional Coordinating Council, and some officials from the Municipal Assembly.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bolgatanga, Feb. 28, GNA \u2013 A Leather Tanning Factory has been constructed at Yorogo, a community in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region, under Government\u2019s flagship programme; One District, One Factory (1D1F). The factory, which is yet to be equipped, is located about 500 metres from the new abattoir, which is expected to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1006602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[3053,5242,5536,5537,3839],"class_list":["post-1006601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-east","tag-factory","tag-leather","tag-tanning","tag-upper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}