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Church to establish vehicle-assembling plant at Okyereko
Accra, Jan 06, Ghanadot/GNA-The technical
division of the Kristo Asafo Church, the Great Kosa Limited,
is to establish a vehicle assembling plant in Ghana.
The proposed site would be a 400-acre land acquired at
Okyereko, near the present location of the company at Gomoa
Mpota, in the Central Region Mr. Festus Owusu Badu, General
Secretary of the Great Kosa Limited said that the Company,
under the Church's leader, Apostle Dr Kwadwo Safo, was
negotiating with a German company, the FAW to help establish
the assembling plant in Ghana.
In an interaction with journalists after a presentation on
the Company at the 59th Annual New Year School, underway at
the University of Ghana, Legon, Mr Badu said the Company was
also in contact with some companies in China to
commercialise the production of its vehicles.
Mr Badu said the Great Kosa Limited, which currently employs
about 400 people, so far had produced a saloon car, two
types of cross-country vehicles and a limousine in 2007,
which it called the Kantanka Obrempong.
Some of the proposed vehicles, according to Mr Badu, which
would be produced in large quantities would be saloon cars,
pick ups, cross-country vehicles and buses.
The main problem however, was about funding, but the Company
was in touch with the Ministry of Finance and Economic
Planning for support.
Mr Badu underscored the importance of the application of
appropriate technology in promoting community development,
adding, "non application of local appropriate technology
rather helped foreign technology to thrive."
He observed that Apostle Safo understood technology very
well, and could manufacture some of the equipment that would
be needed in the assembling process, adding that the works
of the company had been well documented.
Participants at the School were later shown electronic
items, and designs of electronic items produced by the Great
Kosa Limited.
The Annual New Year School is a one-week extra-mural
programme organised annually by the Institute of Adult
Education of the University of Ghana and the theme for this
year's event is; "Tertiary Education and National
Development".
Participants at the School, which spans January 3, 2008 to
January 10, 2008, are engaged in symposia, panel discussion
and lectures on topics like: "Promoting Health for All: The
Challenges," and "Increasing the Utilisation of Information,
Communication and Technology in Tertiary Education."
GNA
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