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Suame
Magazine gets investment boost
Kumasi, May 1, Ghanadot/GNA – Members of Ashanti Regional
branch of Ghana National Association of Garages (GNAG) have
expressed appreciation to Government for negotiating a 24
million-dollar grant from United Nations Industrial
Development Organisation (UNIDO) to assist artisans at Suame
Magazine in Kumasi to improve their ingenuity.
Nana Oppong Mensah, Ashanti Regional Chairman of the
association, speaking to newsmen in Kumasi on Wednesday,
said the grant would assist artisans to cope with modern
scientific way of engineering in manufacturing of various
vehicles.
He described the government’s negotiation for the grant as a
major breakthrough in its quest to upgrade the skills of
mechanics to enable Suame Magazine become an efficient first
class motor vehicle industrial centre.
Nana Mensah said the association had acquired land at
Mampong, Kodie, Ampenyoo and Boankra to serve as an
industrial village for the over 500,000 artisans in Ashanti
Region.
He called on Government to establish consultancy manned by
technocrats with administrative and management skills to
manage the grant judiciously.
Nana Mensah announced that GNAG had negotiated for a
Japanese grant to establish a training school at the
Magazine and reactivate the Suame Foundry to begin the
manufacturing of mini-buses, wheel barrows and other inputs.
He expressed appreciation to Dr Kandeh Yunkella,
Director-General of UNIDO for his assistance to artisans in
Ashanti Region.
GNA
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