Abandoned 1D1F Factories Turned into Churches  …Minister blames political siting, poor planning

Some factories established under the government’s One District, One Factory (1D1F) programme have shut down and been converted into churches, the Minister for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Ahmed Ibrahim, told Parliament’s Assurance Committee.

Mr Ibrahim attributed the failures primarily to poor site selection, saying some plants were built in districts without access to the raw materials needed to sustain production.

He said political considerations, rather than commercial viability, had driven the choice of location for some projects.

“We established factories and companies far from the raw materials because politicians were coming from these distant areas. How many of them survived?” he asked the committee, according to his remarks.

He said several other state-owned enterprises had similarly collapsed, been sold, or privatised over the years because of inadequate planning.

The minister’s comments describe the scale and cause of the 1D1F failures in general terms; he did not cite specific factories, locations, or figures for the number of plants converted into churches, closed, or divested, and none were independently verified in the reporting reviewed.

Mr Ibrahim said the government intends to apply different criteria to its planned 24-hour economy markets programme, basing site selection on economic and commercial factors rather than political considerations.

He said district chief executives would now be involved in conducting research to identify economically viable locations and that feasibility studies and local economic assessments would inform where future projects are sited, with the stated aim of improving sustainability, productivity and job creation.

 

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