NDC will promote industrial parks for garage owners — Mahama

The flag bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr John Dramani Mahama, has promised to build modern training centres to update the skills of garage owners to keep them in business.

He said the next NDC government would promote the development of industrial parks for garage owners and workers when he was elected on December 7, 2020.

A statement signed by the NDC Campaign Spokesperson, Mr James Agyenim-Boateng, said Mr Mahama made the promise while addressing artisans and garage owners in Tuobodom in the Techiman North Constituency last Saturday as part of his three-day tour of the Bono East Region.

Diagnostic centres

Mr Mahama said in that fully equipped industrial parks with diagnostic centres and other modern facilities for vehicle maintenance would be developed to train garage operators in the maintenance of cars with new and improved technology.

It said given the rapid deployment of new technologies in vehicles, Mr Mahama said it was imperative that garage owners and workers were given the needed training to make them relevant for their industry to keep them in employment.

“So, we are going to collaborate with the Eureka Garages Association, Suame Magazine Industrial Development Organisation in Kumasi and all other garage associations in the country to build the training centres with the modern diagnostic machine to train their members and be able to stay in business,” it quoted Mr Mahama to have said.

Master artisans

Mr Mahama indicated that the government would engage master artisans such as masons, carpenters, fashion designers, hairdressers and seamstresses, among others, and pay the apprenticeship fees of all those who were willing to train under them in the various vocations.

“Those who complete the government-sponsored apprenticeship training”, Mr Mahama said, “would be provided the needed tools to enable them to also set up their own businesses.”

 Mr Mahama, in the statement, therefore, urged the electorate to vote for him and the NDC in the December 7, 2020 general election to enable his party to fulfil its promises to the people of Ghana. - #GhanaVotes2020#