The Executive Director of Advocacy Group, the Northern Patriots in Researching Advocacy (NORPRA), Mr. Bismark Adongo Ayorogo has expressed strong disaffection for comments on industrialisation made by the Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia at his public lecture at the Ashesi University.
Mr. Ayorogo said the Vice President’s comment that suggested that the Akufo-Addo led government has established and engaged in rapid industrialisation more than any other government since 1992 could be considered as inaccurate.
Mr. Ayorogo who spoke on A1 Radio’s Daybreak Upper East show expressed the view that the government’s definition of factories is just mere rhetoric explaining that, “the Vice president’s understanding of the creation of factories is just the creation of miniature buildings that cannot be considered as factories as it lacks necessary makeup”.
He stated that, while Dr. Bawumia’s oratory skills are one to be envied by all, what he said could not be considered as wholly accurate. He said the supposed impact that the Vice President mentions that the factories have had is not nearly as exact as the Vice President imagines it.
“When it comes to the concept of production of secondary products my little understanding is if the Bolga market woman is able to take fresh groundnut to the grinding mail, and it’s used for kulikului that is considered a factory. After sixty years of independence, the structure of the economy has not changed. Values should be added to industrial processes to improve and better development in the country,” he explained.
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