The Flagbearer of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) Ivor Kobina Greenstreet and his campaign team on Monday, November 23, 2020 visited the defunct Ghana Match factory at Akyem Kade as part of his one-day Campaign tour of the Eastern Region.
The collapsed Kade match factory was built by Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to leverage the timber resources of the area to produce matches.
The factory generated a dividend of one hundred and seventy-three thousand US dollars, 50 cents for the government in the year 1971 to 1973.
The matches were exported to Togo, Niger, Nigeria, Liberia Mauritania, and Dahome present-day Benin.
Export splint from foreign exchange was about twenty-eight thousand US dollars.
Addressing the media, the CPP Flagbearer listed dozens of state factories and enterprises built by Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah across the country but now defunct.
He said, future CPP government will revive all collapsed state factories to create jobs for the youth.
Some youth in Kade Township who mobbed the CPP Flagbearer was hopeful that if the Match factory is revived many of the unemployed youth will secure jobs.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
