Mr Daniel Dugan, the Deputy Minister of Fisheries, at the weekend said government would ensure that only people with verifiable project plans benefited from credits under the Youth In Agriculture programme.
He said this would eliminate impostors who clamoured and got loans, leading to the collapse of similar programmes in the past.
Mr Dugan was speaking at a durbar at Juapong, in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region organized by the Dorfor Youth Association to honour Mr Moses Asem, the District Chief Executive (DCE) and Mr Charles Hodogbey, Member of Parliament for North-Tongu, both citizens of Dorfor.
Mr Dugan said it was unacceptable people who would not use the credits for the intended purposes should hijack the multi-purposed programme targeted at the youth to create jobs, raise incomes and increase agricultural production.
He said the North-Tongu district, with its potential for irrigation farming, rivers, vast tracts of land, cattle and oyster shell deposits, could become the industrial hub and breadbasket of the region.
Mr Dugan reiterated that it was not the government, which closed the Juapong Textiles Limited (JTL), but said efforts were still being made to reopen production at the factory.
Mr Hackman Owusu-Agyeman, the Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, said government policy was to give every area in Ghana its due share of development, regardless of the political inclination of the people there.
He pledged a personal donation of 100 bags of cement for a proposed community centre in Juapong.
Togbe Ribitim Komlaga II, appealed to the government to rehabilitate roads in the area, provide better infrastructure for community based secondary schools, expedite action on proposed irrigation projects and also provide potable water for the communities.
Mr Kofi Dzamesi, the Volta Regional Minister, was installed a Development Chiefs of the Area under the stool name, Togbe Duawotor I, for his interest in the development of the area.