Attracting Private Investment – The Role Of Integrity And Honesty (Statement)

Address by former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings at a ceremony organised by The Private Investors Protection Agency at the Sun Lodge, Hotel Accra on Wednesday, January 29, 2014


Mr Chairman, Board of Directors of the Private Investors Protection Agency, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, Good morning.

I am honoured to be part of this occasion and to be asked to speak on such an important topic.

To be able to attract private investment we must begin by looking at our objectives and our priorities. The overriding objective is to attain a highly productive and growing private sector. To achieve this, Ghana, must reorient the economy by my estimation in two ways.

The first is the enhancement of access into a productive formal sector and the second is a change in the structure of the composition of GDP from existing basic dominance to one that is dominated by manufact