The Furniture and Wood Products Association of Ghana (FAWAG) has assured the public that President John Mahama’s plan to ban wooden furniture in schools will not negatively impact local furniture producers.
This follows the president’s June 5 announcement during the national commemoration of World Environment Day in Accra, where he revealed plans to prohibit the use of wooden school furniture to combat deforestation and support environmental sustainability.
Speaking in an interview, the Association’s Administrative Assistant, Christopher Dadzawa, said the industry has long embraced alternatives such as metal, which are already widely used in school furniture production.
“Not at all—it won’t affect local furniture producers. Before this announcement, metal furniture was already in the system, and I can also say with all pride that 20 years or so in the past, my association introduced metal furniture to the government. We did a pilot programme about it some 20, 15 years ago,” Dadzawa stated.
According to him, producers will simply shift focus from wood to metal, a transition that is already familiar to many within the industry.
“We are only going to replace the wood with metal, which we are already doing, but this time the focus is on school furniture,” he added.
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