Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah , a
former Minister of Trades and Industry , says the National Democratic Congress
(NDC) government under John Dramani Mahama built more factories than known.
Dr Spio-Garbrah cites
how most of the factories secured funding and support from government agencies
like the National Board for Small-Scale Industries, Export Development Bank as
well as Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC).
He said the New Patriotic Party’s One-District One Factory
Programme pales in comparison to the over 1,000 factories created under former
President Mahama.
“If you are trying to look at whoever built factories and
employed people, we did far more than anything the NPP has done so far,” he
told 3news.com’s Komla Klutse on the sidelines of the 31st December
commemoration in Winneba, Central Region last week.
He said the difference between what happened under the NDC
and what is happening under the NPP “is branding and sloganeering difference”.
“If it is a matter of bragging, we could have bragged over
1,000 factories.
“More than 1,000 factories were created in the last Mahama
administration. NPP had the slogan for it, which of course people can remember.
NDC did not have a slogan for it.”
