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Prez Akufo-Addo to Investor Community: Africa is ready for business

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Prez Akufo-Addo to Investor Community: Africa is ready for business

President Akufo-Addo has courted the global investor community for Africa and touted the potential of the continent to become the single largest market in the world with its 1.3 billion population.

Addressing the 77th Session of the United Nations currently ongoing in New York, in the United States of America, the President noted that Africa sees the current geopolitical crisis as an opportunity to rely less on food imports from outside the continent and use its 60% global share of arable lands to increase food production.

He said, “Our message to the global investor community is this: Africa is ready for business. Africa needs you and you need Africa. You need Africa because Africa is busily building the world’s largest single market of 1.3 billion people.”

“Soon we will have a customs union, and soon we will have a continental payment system that will accelerate and facilitate trade amongst ourselves.”

“We have seen the devastating impact of relying on Russia and Ukraine for seventy per cent of our wheat consumption. We have enough land, enough water, enough gas and enough manpower to produce enough fertiliser, food and energy for ourselves and for others.”

President Akufo-Addo acknowledged that in spite of these Africa cannot do it all itself and urged the global investor community to see Africa for what it is – “The new frontier for manufacturing, for technology, for food production.”

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In the case of Ghana, the President told the gathering that his government has launched the successful policy of ‘One District One Factory’ – a policy, with government incentives, that has directly seen, so far, some 125 enterprises being set up in various districts across the country, leveraging on each area’s competitive advantage.

“That is why, six years ago, my government embarked on an aggressive policy of planting for food and jobs, which has helped our farmers increase their yields in folds. Indeed, we are recognising that many of the things we import can be found or produced in Ghana, or in other African countries,” he added.

With the Secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) located in Ghana, the President stressed that the free trade area is driving intra-Africa trade and creating an unparalleled momentum for Africa’s economic diversity and transformation.

True to our knowledge that industrialisation is the way to go and, with the single market as the added incentive, President Akufo-Addo indicated that Ghana has taken policy measures to add value to her natural resources.  

“For example, we are processing more of our cocoa, refining more of our gold, and we are determined to exploit the entire value chain of our huge lithium deposits. We are busily building an integrated bauxite and aluminium industry and an integrated iron and steel industry, building new oil refineries and have, so far, attracted six (6) of the world’s biggest automobile manufacturers to set up assembling plants in Ghana, prior to producing them in the country,” he added.

In line with the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the President indicated that Africa’s ambition is to transform her food systems over the next decade, anchored in the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) and the Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth.

“What we require now is support from the investor community for the rolling out of Africa’s lucrative agro-industry, and for the community to see agribusiness in Africa as much more an opportunity than the perceived, exaggerated risk which has been the false, but dominant narrative,” he added.

President Akufo-Addo tasked the United Nations to take proper stock of this initiative and ask a few searching questions, and recognise what could have been achieved with greater commitment and focus.

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