Komenda Sugar Factory is ready to Start Operations-Factory Supervisor

The Supervisor of the Komenda Sugar Factory in the Central Region of Ghana, Akoliya Patel has stated that the factory needs about two months for servicing and it would be operational for work to begin.

His statement comes after the Minister of Trade, Agribusiness and Industry, Elizabeth Ofosu Adjare paid a visit to the facility at Komenda to acquire firsthand knowledge about the factory.

The visit however revealed the deteriorating condition of the factory, after eight (8) years of its inauguration.

But Mr Patel was of the conviction that the machines only needed servicing and it would be fully functional for production to begin.

“We thank the government for their readiness to begin work. It is the government of Ghana’s asset so what we have to do is maintenance and  repairs and then working capital to inject. Either by government or private partners”.

“We need to be ready, there’s a lot of work to be done, we will do whatever the government requires us to do and the factory will start running within two months ”, Mr Patel stated.

He disclosed that the factory would create more than 8,000 jobs.

“All the farmers around should begin to cultivate sugarcane because it can bring more money than even cocoa”, the factory supervisor underscored.

He mentioned that the operationalization of the factory would see a lot of the youth employed and thanked the Trade Minister for assuring that sugar production would soon commence at the factory.

Speaking to the media, the Member of Parliament for the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abrem Constituency, Samuel Atta Mills questioned why the factory was not functioning after the New Patriotic Party took over governance.

“All the youth are outside. Either they are in Accra or Takoradi and some of them even outside the country searching for jobs, whilst there’s a factory over here that can give us at least 7,500 jobs”, he lamented.

“Why are we not operationalizing it? Anyway, I understand, we built it and we are going to make sure it works again for the good people of this country and the constituency”.

The MP stressed that the factory would help reduce imports of sugar, strengthen the dollar, and provide jobs, when production commenced.

Mr Atta Mills was happy the Komenda Sugar Factory had gained attention from the government and hoped the factory would soon become functional.