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'1-district-1-factory policy plagiarised': NDC MP indicts NPP
Speaking in Parliament Friday as MPs debate the president's first budget, the former propaganda secretary of the NDC said had the NDC won the December 7 polls, they would have rolled out the district industrialisation programme formulated in 2009.
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"One district one factory is a project of the NDC led administration," Mr Quashigah, said to boos from the majority MPs.
Backing his claims, the MP read from a document titled the "The Ministry of Trade and Industry National Bulk of Small Scale Industry Republic of Ghana," which he said was completed in the earlier life of the minority leader, Haruna Iddrisu, when he served as the Trade Minister under Professor Evans Atta Mills.
"The government of Ghana will establish more skilled district industrialisation initiative in all districts of the country to help create jobs for the youth. An average of 47 MMDAs will benefit the implementation scheme every year until all 216 MMDAs have established their flagship SSDIIDC project," Mr Quashigah quoted from the preamble of the document.
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"The Ministry of Trade and Industry and its implementing collaborators will apply public-private partnership framework and the cottage village enterprise model in establishing these financially viable companies in all the MMDAs," he added.
But the NPP MP for Old Tafo and Minister for Monitoring and Evaluation, Anthony Akoto Osei, pushed back against the criticism, saying the document Mr Quashigah quoted from was prepared under the Kufuor administration before NPP lost the 2008 election.
"My good friend the Hon. member from Keta is trying to allege that the NPP has stolen the idea [of one-district-one-factory] from the NDC. He mentioned the Minority Leader who was then the Minister of Trade," he said.
"Maybe he is too young to remember. I want to remind him that the district industrialisation programme was conceived under the chairmanship of Hon. Alan Kyeremanteng under the Kufuor administration and the Minority leader inherited that programme. And he plagiarised it. After eights years, he couldn't even do it," he added.
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