Ogyeahorhuor Kwaku Gyebi II, the Chief of the Anhwiaso Traditional Area in the Bibiani Anhwiaso constituency in the Western Region, has endorsed the “1-District-1-Factory” policy of the 2016 presidential nominee of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

According to the Chief, this policy is one sure way of creating the hundreds of thousands of jobs required by the teeming masses of unemployed Ghanaian youth across the country.

“We have heard you say that in every district your government will help establish one factory. As usual, we have heard the naysayers and doubters saying it cannot be done. I am not a politician, but I vividly recollect that our grandmothers used to make soap out of plantain husks and cocoa pods. Even if Nana Akufo-Addo does not build a cocoa processing factory here in Anhwiaso, but says he will set up a soap making factory, for example, it is clearly doable. The ‘1-District-1-Factory’ policy is one I wholly endorse. We, in Anhwaiso, know that once you have said you will do it, it will be done,” he said.

Ogyeahorhuor Kwaku Gyebi II gave the endorsement when Nana Akufo-Addo, in the company of NPP national and regional stalwarts, paid a courtesy call on him at his palace, at the commencement of his 5-day tour of the Western Region.

Ogyeahorhuor Kwaku Gyebi II wondered how many of Ghana’s 60,000 to 80,000 graduates churned out annually will get jobs to do if drastic policy measures, like the ‘1-District-1-Factory’, are not implemented.

“That is why some of us have expressed our confidence and belief in you. As you (Nana Akufo-Addo) have said, once agriculture is diversified, and factories established, thousands of jobs will be created across the country,” he added.