Madam Theresa Amaley Tagoe, Deputy Minister for Works and Housing, on Monday appealed to manufacturing companies to slow down the rate of mechanisation so as to create more jobs for Ghanaians.
With the modern rate of computerisation and capitalisation, "if manufacturers should go all out to meet these modern trends, a lot more Ghanaians would remain jobless," she observed.
Madam Tagoe made the appeal when she paid a familiarisation visit to the African Concrete Products Limited (ACP) Bricks and Tiles factory and later toured its housing estate at Pokuase, near Accra.
"With the country's high rate of unemployment, I am appealing to you to slow down in your rate of capitalisation, so that more factory hands can be employed till the economy becomes better," she said, adding, "we need to create jobs for the people through the private sector".
Madam Tagoe, who is also the Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South Constituency, appealed to real estate developers to endeavour to use local materials to make their houses affordable to the average worker.
"Formerly, Ghanaians use to build with mud which are similar to bricks, but we have all turned away from it to cement, which is not suitable to this weather and also getting out of reach of the average worker," she said.
The two million dollars tiles plant, the largest in West Africa employs 35 people whilst the estates has a number of sub-contractors.
An average of 45,000 bricks are produce daily. The estate community currently has 200 homes being occupied whiles another 400 is still under construction.
