President Akufo-Addo has stated that a total of two hundred and thirty-two (232) projects are at various stages of implementation under the flagship one district one factory (1D1F) program.

The projects he indicated include “seventy-six (76) operating as 1D1F companies, one hundred and twelve (112), including five (5) medium size agro-processing factories, and sixty-three (63) Common User Facilities which are also under construction.”

The 1D1F policy was first introduced in 2016 as part of the New Patriotic Party’s manifesto promises and is aimed at creating jobs for Ghanaians through the setting up of factories and industries which will in turn drive the country towards greater industrialization.

Delivering the 2021 State of the Nation’s address Tuesday, in Parliament, the President indicated that his government is determined to “continue with the agenda of rapid industrialisation.”

“We are determined to make our own things,” he said.

He added that he is on course to transforming the structure of the Ghanaian economy from one dependent on the production and export of raw materials to a value-added, industrialised economy.

In addition, he noted that “the Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC) has made good progress on the bauxite exploitation programme which is also aimed at driving the industrial transformation agenda.

“We are in the final stage of an open and transparent investor engagement process, and are in negotiations to select strategic investors to partner GIADEC for the bauxite mining and alumina refinery projects.

“The selected partners will be announced imminently. Similarly, the Ghana Integrated Iron and Steel Development Corporation (GIISDEC) has been set up, and has begun its work in earnest,” he said.