Mr Yaw Osafo-Maafo, the Senior Minister, has reiterated government’s commitment to creating the most friendly business environment that would result in mutually rewarding economic returns for investors.
Delivering the keynote address at the Ghana Investment Summit 2017, in Accra, Mr Osafo-Maafo said Government’s proposed initiatives to strengthening the economy and deliver good paying jobs would create an environment that would attract investors.
“Yes, we strongly believe Ghana is positioned to be an investment hub for the West Africa Region in particular and Africa as a whole,” he said.
“An investment hub means if we get it right Ghana will not only be prosperous but can provide economic access for our entire continent,” he added.
Ghana’s strategic and central location within West Africa provides access to the ECOWAS market with an estimated population of 350 million people.
Mr Osafo-Maafo said the country did not only have an excellent geographic location, but also enjoyed geo-political stability, rule of law, economic steadiness and highly educated population.
The Investment Summit 2017, being hosted by the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), aims, among other things, to attract strategic and development funding for key government projects, match growth-oriented businesses with international partners and investors and showcase the country as the premier investment destination in Africa.
The summit participants would hold high-level discussions on investment opportunities in key sectors including financial services, technology, consumer goods and services, energy and agribusiness.
Mr Osafo-Maafo said Ghana was in the early stages of an industrial transformation and private sector investment was a significant part of the plan.
He said Government intended to deliver its development agenda in partnership with the private sector, both local corporate bodies and multinationals.
“Ghana is on the way up and as principal players in the global financial market, we invite you to come and partner us so that we can surge forward together,” he said.
He said Government’s bold initiatives were opening new and innovative spaces for investment, including railway development, an integrated aluminum industry and establishment of industrial parks.
Mr Yofi Grant, the Chief Executive Officer of the GIPC, said summits like that would play a vital role in bringing together investors, entrepreneurs, and policy makers to help Ghana in her leap to become the invest hub in Africa.
“We must use this opportunity to have the conversations and make the concrete connections that will help build a stronger, more robust economy.”
Source: GNA
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This Osafo Marfo should be told to ***barred word*** and clean himself properly when he goes to BUG ; does this idiotic donkey think Ghanaians are still fulls who will just accept any cheap talk from idiotic politicians !!!!!because the man anmd Gabby Darko are damaging the reputation of Nana Addo ; this maggot of a man is a THIFF and a Kriminal who practices nepostism and tribalism ; he looks after his own family by giving jobs to his own children similar Nana Addo and relatives and then turns round to full Ghanaians about investment hub ;WHAT INVESTMENT HUB ? WHAT A JOKE !!!!! whilst not telling Ghanaians that the systems and official in Ghana are so corrupted that if you invest in Ghana you shall lose your cash ; investors abroad are not so STOOOOOPID with cheap political talk by Osafo Marfo ; tribalist playing nepodtism in Nana Addos government.
massa, this is not the first time you have been saying such things yet nothing happens. You always say this promisory things and yet absolutely nothing, or very little and very feeble & mediocre things are done. Let us SEE ACTION! Stop talking of 'we can" and ''we will". We want to se "we have started" and "we have done..." Haba!!!