Ghana welcomes investors who will create jobs
Vice-President Mr Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has stated that Ghana will continue to forge closer partnership with countries whose investors create employment avenues for the people, especially the youth.
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He said the issue of employment was uppermost in the scheme of activities of the government, for which reason it would encourage investors to create multiple avenues that would offer employment opportunities for the people.
Mr Amissah-Arthur said this when the visiting Italian Foreign Minister, Madam Emma Bonino, paid a courtesy call on him at the Flagstaff House in Accra yesterday.
Graduate unemployment
The Vice-President pointed out that the country’s tertiary institutions, on an annual basis produced hundreds of graduates into the labour market where employment avenues in the formal sector were inadequate.
That, he explained, demanded that the government partnered investors to commit more resources in to areas such as infrastructure, energy and agriculture, to absorb the large array of the unemployed in the country.
He said the country also boasted an emerging oil and gas industry and thus called on Madam Bonino to impress on investors back home to invest in that sector.
Mr Amissah-Arthur said the country abounds in huge mineral deposits including gold, bauxite and iron ore which investors could take advantage of, adding that Ghana also boasts a flexible investment regime which guaranteed that investers got maximum returns on their investment.
He thanked the Italian Government for supporting the country in the last five decades and called for more collaboration between the two countries.
For her part, Madam Bonino said that the purpose of the visit was to strengthen bilateral cooperation between Italy and Ghana.
She touted Ghana’s democratic credentials which, she said, had earned the country considerable respect among the comity of nations.