Government is to establish a fisheries college at Anomabo in the Central Region as part of its Fisheries Development Plans, Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, Minister of Food and Agriculture has announced.
In addition, he said, government would also provide a modern fish processing plant and market in the Komenda-Edina-Egua-Abirem (KEEA) Municipality also in the region.
The Minister said this in a speech read for him by Nii Amasah Namoale, Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture in Charge of Fisheries during the celebration of the Nyeyi Afahye festival of the Komenda Traditional Area last week.
He commended the people of Komenda for the good management of the fisheries resources in the area by the Community Management Committee and the Premix Fuel Committees.
“The Landing Beach Committee that we restructured and established are beginning to bear fruitful results as the profits and savings from their operations, that used to be stolen by greedy and selfish politicians and their henchmen in the immediate past, are being used for community development...” he said.
On the Nyeyi Afahye, the Minister told the chiefs and people of Komenda not to end it with display of pomp and pageantry, which are associated with most festivals, but rather it should provide discernable development outcomes.
“Let us start with consensus building on how we want to see Komendaman in the next two to 10 years or in the long term.”
He said Komenda’s greatest strength is its people who are highly educated saying “your greatest threat is to fail to leverage this unique human capacity to mobilise the people at the grassroots to build self-reliance in education, agriculture, health as well as in rural urban renewal.”