Ghana’s President, John Evans Atta Mills, last week Friday, March 19, 2010 assured the investor community in the country of maximum returns of their investments. The president gave the assurance when he received a delegation from Goldfields Ghana Limited (GGL) at the Castle, Osu.
According to President Mills, the country’s investment code created an enabling environment which makes it convenient for investors to do lucrative business. The president also went on to indicate that Ghana has a good infrastructure network and that investors would not have problems investing in the country.
Today sees the assurance from the first gentleman of this country as refreshing. Countries all over the world crave for investors to come and do business to help improve upon their economies. In Africa the situation becomes even more challenging especially where many foreign investors fear that they would not have good returns for their capital investments.
Apart from that the quest to woo investors into the country, the investors must also have the assurance that the general security is equally good. Definitely no investor would want to do business in an unstable environment.
Therefore, in addition to President Mills’ assurance, it is important that we strive to create a peaceful and stable environment that will bring in more investors to help grow our economy. We are, however, worried that many of our regions continue to record one chieftaincy dispute and the other. This certainly does not send the right signals to potential investors who would want to do business in Ghana.
It is in view of this that we on Today think that our security agencies must employ proactive measures to prevent these needless chieftaincy disputes which are retarding the progress of our communities. We must also appreciate the fact that the development that we all hope to see will only be achieved in a peaceful and stable environment.
Furthermore, as a country we need to ensure that the bulk of the investment that takes place in the country goes to benefit largely Ghanaians. This is because we do not seem to be benefiting from all the direct foreign investment that have come and the ones currently in the country.
