The second Volta Trade, Investment and Cultural Fair 2010 has ended in Ho with a call for stronger partnership among business and trade entities to facilitate wider exposure of the potentials in the region to the outside world.
The Volta Regional Minister, Mr Joseph Amenowode, who addressed the closing ceremony at the Jubilee Park last Sunday said although the fair was successful in terms of bagarning and selling, partnerships and exchange of ideas even made it achieve its objective.
“ Judging from the success of this fair this year, it could now be called, ‘The Volta International Trade Fair’ next year and will explore the interanational markets”, he declared.
Mr Amenowode announced that an aggressive plan on infrastructure development would unfold next year in the Volta Region saying that all roads in Ho Municipality will be tarred and as he put it, “all roads in Ho will be given Yomo”.
He said work on all major roads would also begin early next year and that the Volta Textile Factory at Juapong would resume operations and that a fertiliser manufacturing plant was expected to take off next year.
In an address, the founder of Volta Foundation, Dumega Raymond Okudzeto lauded the second initiative to give exposure to investors .
He said the region and the foundation would attract the best development partners into the region and the nation adding that it was pertinent to pool resources to strengthen the determination to take the lead.
The Keta Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Sylvester Tornyeavah declared that the region had finally taken off.
In the chairman’s remarks, the chief of Ho-Heve, Togbe Anikpui III thanked the organisers for the successful organisation to showcase the potentials of the region in tourism and business.
Exhibitors for the two week fair held on the theme” Volta Region: Investors’ Destination” came from Iran, Benin, Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Ghana.
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