A subsidiary of McDan Group of Companies, Electrochem Ghana Limited, is set to begin commercial salt mining production and caustic soda manufacturing from the Ada Songor Salt Project.
This comes on the background of Songor Salt being bedevilled with lack of equipment and investment capacity to operate, and staggering to the government for assistance, says the Interim Management Committee (IMC) Chairman, Lawyer Katenor Bosomprah.
According to the Chairman, since the IMC was incapacitated by logistics and financing to enforce full operalisation of the Songor Salt Project, it appealed for external support, for which the government provide a Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement.
He said in an effort by the government to retool the Songor Salt Project, through the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI) a license was granted to McDan’s subsidiary, Electrochem, to mine the natural resource.
Lawyer Bosomprah, speaking at the inauguration programme at Songor Salt Project site, said the partnership had come at a good time and that the management and people were happy that in the long run Songor was being rescued.
The Paramount Chief of the Ada Traditional Area, Nene Abram Kabu Akuaku III, on his part, urged the people to support the project and its development for the benefit of all.
He encouraged the people to unite and ensure that the company that had accepted the responsibility to develop and turn around the fortunes of the Songor resource.
The District Chief Executive of the Ada West Assembly, Adzoteye Lawer Akrofi, also said he was happy McDan Group of Companies had accepted to give the Songor Salt Project a major face lift.
He said the company would support the creation of jobs and its auxiliary businesses that would come along.
Mr Akrofi added that the presence of Electochem in the area would also help the district to be able to meet its targeted annual internal generated funds, which the Assembly hardly meets.
He gave the assurance that all necessary stakeholders, including chiefs, elders and people of the catchment communities, had been engaged, hence, the project had been embraced by the locals.
The Ada Songor Salt Project, since the 1970s, had undergone several transitions and management phases, of which Electrochem Ghana Limited is the third of its kind.
The Songor Lagoon has the prospects of salt production capacity of producing 1.4 million metric tonnes and aside the production of salt, the lagoon also serves other purposes such a source of fishing for nearby communities.
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