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Veep visits JOSPONG Automobile Assembly Plant

The Vice President John, Dramani Mahama, has taken a familiarization tour of a new vehicle assembly plant built by waste management experts Zoomlion.

The automobile plant, JOSPONG Automobile Assembling Plant, off the Tema Motorway in Accra is totally Ghanaian and has so far built a total of 250 DONFENG Tipper trucks at the site.

More than 5,000 mechanics have been trained to man the plant since it started operations some few months ago. Apart from selling on the local market, the company has started exporting some of the assembled vehicles to Togo, Equatorial Guinea, Angola and Zambia.

The Vice President, John Dramani Mahama was excited to see a revival of the automobile industry in Ghana, since its collapse in the 1980s.

“I am happy that the Local Enterprises and Skills Development Programme (LESDEP) is the one that provoked this investment and I think that’s how the private sector should react. We should be more innovative in terms of what we do,” the Vice President said.

He said government will use its purchasing power to encourage the private sector to take advantage of the vast employment opportunities in the country.

The Vice President, who also visited the assembling plants of tricycles for the collection of waste throughout the country, said Government will continue to create an enabling environment for businesses to triumph and called on them to go the extra mile to make innovations that will attract partnerships from all angles of development.

Mr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, Chief Executive Officer of JOSPONG Group of Companies including Zoomlion Ghana Limited said his companies are employing a total of 70,000 workers in all the subsidiary companies in Ghana. The company also has subsidiaries in Angola, Equitorial Guinea, Togo and Zambia that are employing so many workers.

He added that another plant will be opened in Kumasi in the Ashanti region to cater for the demands of the northern sector and Burkina Faso.

He said, his outfit has also established an institute of waste management and will partner the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and Polytechnics to train their students practically at the institute.

He said apart from the engines that are imported, all other parts such as tyres, bodies among others are manufactured in the company.

 

The Vice President also took the opportunity to tour the Institute of Waste Management and Sanitation, which is currently under construction.

By: Johannes MacWood, e.tv Ghana

 

 

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