•He said the Akufo-Addo government has ensured of an enabling environment for businesses to thrive even in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic
•He said this during an interview with CNN's Richard Quest
Ghana’s Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has asserted the country remains a prime destination for businesses and investors to thrive.
According to him, the country will continue in its stride to creating an enabling business environment that attracts multinational companies and blue-chip firms.
In an interaction with CNN’s Richard Quest, Ken Ofori-Atta explained “if you look at the economy since 2017, I mean clearly, we went through the head wings and built quite a bit of resilience before the COVID-19 pandemic. So, when Africa’s sort of first recession and contraction of about 2% occurred, we managed to achieve 0.4% growth.”
He continued, “And then the president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo employed us to put together a recovery package that we call it Ghana Cares Programme which is a GH¢100 billion programme on accord of Gross Domestic Product, looking to revitalization of the economy and also the taking off smoothly of the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement; they’ve been here to create a regional hub.”
“Twitter was able to come here because of these types of aggressive outward positions that we have. So, it’s really an issue of continuing over a great business environment where Google is here, manufacturing and assembling of VW and Toyota vehicles are happening here,” Ofori-Atta added.
Already Volkswagen, Sinotruk and now Toyota & Suzuki have established their presence in the country all in a bid towards making the West African nation an automobile manufacturing hub.
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