Ondo state resurrected two industries to enhance job creation.

 its resolve to provide employment
for the youths in the state, the Ondo
State Government has revamped two
of its moribund industries. They are
Ifon Ceramic Industry now Golden
Ceramic of Ifon and Araromi Ayesan
Oil Palm.
The state Commissioner for
Information, Mr. Kayode Akinmade
made the announcement to
newsmen
yesterday, after an assessment visit to
the Sunshine Cassava Food
Processing Factory, Ikoya in Okitipupa
Local Government Area of the State
with his counterpart for Commerce and
Industry,Chief Ayo Abiola.
The Information Commissioner said
the Araromi Aiyesan Oil Palm is now
operational while the Ifon Ceramic is
also ready to take off, adding that
government will continue to strive to
ensure that viable industries are put up
in the state for the benefit of all, even
as he hinted that work is almost
completed on the Omotosho Power
Plant intended to solve the industrial
power problem in the state.
Also speaking on the development, his
Commerce and Industry counterpart,
Chief Ayo Abiola said government is
determined to bring life back to all the
ailing industries in the state, in order
to provide job opportunities for the
people with a view to improving their
living standard.
According to him, the Sunshine
Cassava Food Processing Factory is
an off-taken factory for all Cassava
growing farmers in the area, stressing
that the turnaround work being carried
out on the project is at ninety per cent
completion stage.
He posited that the government is
interested in sharing ownership right of
the place with interested investors who
would take over the management of
the place to achieve the desired
results.
Chief Abiola affirmed that government
is no longer interested in controlling
majority share in any of its
establishments, but wants investors
that would have controlling shares so
that no effort of government would kill
any industry that the administration
revamped, even after the incumbent’s
tenure.
The Commissioner, who described the
state as emerging market for
industrialisation in Nigeria said the
administration is putting up structures
that would sustain industrialisation in
the state.
The factory on completion would
enhance the productivity of the people
living in the five local government
areas such as Okitipupa, Irele, Ilaje,
Ese-Odo and Odigbo.