Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, has assured the business community that his government would create a level playing field for both local and foreign investors to properly operate without any form of preferential treatment.
Addressing the business community in Houston, Texas, in the US, Friday, the NPP flagbearer added that his administration would not discriminate against investors from the West.
According to Nana Akufo-Addo, although he welcomes the willingness of China to assist Ghana with her development, his administration would ensure American investors are also featured in access to investments.
�We are also looking to Houston, to Texas, for lessons and partnership in transforming our economy. The successful management of the oil and gas industry here led to the diversification and industrialization of a state that used to be dependent on cotton. It is this model of the integrated petrochemical industry that we seek to build in Ghana, servicing the entire oil-rich West African region � now called the �New Gulf�,� he stated.
Nana Addo noted that the development of the new oil and gas industry of Ghana would be significantly enhanced by the involvement of American technology, know-how and practices, adding: �and, for our part, my party and I welcome wholeheartedly that involvement and investment.�
�Earlier someone commented to me that it is a relatively rare thing to find an opposition political candidate promoting investment in his country. You may be right � but the tag line for my campaign for the presidency continues to be I BELIEVE IN GHANA, because I believe deeply in the potential of my country and its people,� he remarked.
Outlining his vision for Ghana, the NPP flagbearer reiterated his plan to �build an educative workforce to compete for better jobs for Ghana, strengthen social systems like schools and the National Health System to ensure that Ghana invests in the human capital, develop relations and infrastructure to lessen the burden of doing business in the country and across the region, enhancing public safety, protecting the environment on our borders, promoting Ghanaian entrepreneurs as critical partners in the country growing economy and promoting Ghana as a service and industrial sector for West Africa.�
Nana Akufo-Addo stated that Ghanaians were desperately looking forward to the return of the NPP to the corridors of power, after experiencing the failed leadership of the Mills-Mahama led NDC government.
He noted that Ghanaians have now clear-cut difference between the previous NPP and the current NDC governments and can now decide for themselves come the December general elections.
�Now we have less than 11 months to another crucial election, well as we say in Ghana that the people have tasted both water and alcohol and they now know the difference between the two,� he said., adding:
�I believe the majority of the Ghanaian people are convinced that the NPP vision for Ghana is the most formidable preposition to develop our country.�
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