Afenyo-Markin slams government for abandoning 1D1F initiative

Minority Leader successful Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has criticised the existent administration’s handling of Ghana’s concern agenda, accusing President John Dramani Mahama’s authorities of betraying the country’s way to industrialisation and crippling occupation instauration efforts.

According to him, the government's determination to wantonness the flagship One District One Factory (1D1F) inaugural represents a "betrayal of industrialisation" and a nonstop stroke to the hopes of thousands of Ghanaians seeking employment.

“The President pledged successful January to instrumentality a 24-hour economy, I quote, 'to stimulate section industries and pull investment.' But alternatively of gathering upon the 1D1F initiative, a bold, pragmatic programme that utilized taxation incentives to ignite industrialisation crossed Ghana, the authorities of President Mahama has shelved it,” Afenyo-Markin stated during a property briefing connected May 8, 2025.

He further warned of the antagonistic consequences resulting from the argumentation shift.

“The authorities has discarded it, abandoned it, and killed it. Factories that were planned nether the erstwhile medication present beryllium idle. Investment plans person stalled,” helium added.

Afenyo-Markin besides cautioned that the government's actions are undermining capitalist assurance saying, “The connection to investors successful our system is large and clear: You are not harmless present anymore.”

The 1D1F initiative, launched nether the Akufo-Addo administration, aimed to alteration Ghana’s system done decentralised industrialisation, with the committedness of establishing a mill successful each territory to spur occupation instauration and economical growth.

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