Over the past years, our local industries have been on the heels of governments hitting hard and crying for support.
Certainly, they do that to prompt government on the need to save them from collapsing.
Our politicians make lip-smacking promises during elections when they are hungry for power.
They promise to make living conditions better including boosting the local industries in order to promote them and enable them withstand stiffer competitions.
These promises on countless occasions have turned out to be a jolt since these same politicians end up awarding contracts to international companies instead of our local industries.
In the Wednesday 9th September edition of TODAY, we reported a story on the Metro Mass Buses where one Mr Ampadu Siaw, Chairman of the Association of Used Auto Parts Dealers drew government’s attention to the fact that they can get the broken down buses back on the roads since they had the men and the requisite skills and expertise.
He suggested that government should give them about four of the broken down buses to put them to test and see whether they cannot repair these buses.
The Minister of Transportation, Hon. Mike Hammah, in an interview with Citi FM on Wednesday morning in respect of Mr Ampadu Siaw’s submissions welcomed the idea and asked that Mr Ampadu Siaw and his association to present a proposal for assessment.
We at TODAY doff our hearts out to Hon. Mike Hammah for giving heed to the submissions of Mr Ampadu Siaw in finding a solution to a national problem of this nature.
TODAY thinks that it is high time our local industries are given a chance to contribute their quota to national development.
In this vein, we charge all other Ministers and politicians to learn something out of this in our quest to make Ghana a better place to live.