PHOTOS: President Akufo-Addo Commissions Sunda Diaper Factory

President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has commissioned a $40 million baby diapers and sanitary pad factory at Bortionor in the Greater Accra Region under his Government's flagship One District One Factory (1D1F) initiative.

The Sunda Diaper factory is believed to be the biggest in SubSaharan Africa and it's owned by Chinese firm Sunda International Limited.

It is among other three other factories to be established in Ghana over the last two years by the Chinese, one being the Twyford Factory in the Western Region which is also a factory under 1D1F and into the production of ceramics.

In his speech to commission the multimillion dollars factory, President Akufo-Addo called for public support in attracting more investors into the country.

The President was happy "to see what is taking place today.

He told the Ghanaian people that his Government was working assiduously to transform the Ghanaian economy, saying the work we are doing to strengthen the macroeconomic stability of our country is not some paper work.

In direct attack on his critics who think that many of the promises he made to Ghanaians such as the Free Senior High School, One Village One Dam, 1D1F were just to win votes in th 2016 elections, the President indicated strongly that all the programs of his Government were not gimmicks but noted that they were part of a well thought out plan for the social and economic development of Ghana.

He made it so clear that he was not a President who will lie to the Ghanaian people for votes but that he was committed to fulfilling all pledges made to them in 2016 before the end of his four years in 2020, observing that the Ghanaian is highly capable of taking charge of his or own destiny.

It was his prayer that more of such factories were established across Ghana to reduce imports and help create jobs for Ghanaians, noting when the nation imports, it only help to create jobs for other countries and not Ghanaians.

Mr. Akufo-Addo used the occasion to reaffirm his Government's commitment to promoting industrial developments nationwide by forming strong collaboration with the private sector and creating the right business environment, indicating that his government will not be the one that preside over what he termed as widening deficit, high debts.

He also reassured the nation, especially the business community about providing stable electricity, intimating that his administration will not be the one that return Ghana to the era of unstable electricity supply which came to infamously be known as dumsor in the local parlance.

Future Expansion

Managing Director of Sunda Diaper Limited, Dong Ming Hu, the $40 million of which the company itself contributed $26 million, with $14 million support from local banks in Ghana, was only for the first phase of the factory which has about five production lines.

He said in 2019, the company hopes to increase the investment to about $55 million for the second phase of the project and that will might increase the maiden workforce of 500 to about 1,000 jobs.

He revealed that Sunda International Limited was planning to establish about 12 new businesses in SubSaharan Africa over the next three years.