Some workers and residents at Ekumfi in the Central Region have expressed their displeasure with the government's decision to scrap the One District One Factory initiative.
They claimed the project had given more employment in the area, reducing suffering and other economic challenges such as poverty, unemployment among others. "We expected that the president would channel some funds to the project after we praised him for using Eku Juice during his thanksgiving service after his victory. "We had high expectations that the president will resource the factories and support it to enable them employ a lot of unemployed youth," one of the citizens, speaking with GhanaWeb, said.
The residents further expressed their disappointments in the 2025 Budget presented on Tuesday, March 11, in Parliament.
The Minister of Finance, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, scrapped the 1D1F programme as part of the economic recovery agenda and expenditure measures to support the fiscal consolidation agenda. "We will cut wasteful expenditures on inefficient and duplicative programmes to reduce expenditure under the fiscal consolidation programmes," he said.
