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Company News of Saturday, July 6, 2019
Source: Graphic.com.gh
2019-07-06
United Kingdom High Commissioner to Ghana, Iain Walker
United Kingdom High Commissioner to Ghana, Iain Walker, has promised that the UK government will support the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) to make Kumasi a leading industrial hub in Africa. l & # 39; West.
He added that Kumasi occupied a very important place in the development of Ghana, which is why the United Kingdom would continue to focus on the development of the city.
Mr. Walker said that when the UK government and the government of Ghana signed a new strategic partnership agreement focused on six economic areas of mutual benefit in the framework of the United Kingdom-Ghana Business Council (UK-GBC ).
The agreement, which was signed at the end of a regional business forum in Kumasi, covers six sectors, namely agri-food, extractive industries, garments / textiles, digital products, pharmaceuticals and financial services.
These are three themes: domestic revenue mobilization, ease of doing business and infrastructure.
signatories
Kumasi Metropolitan Executive Director (MCE), Mr. Osei Assibey Antwi, and Mr. Walker signed for their respective countries.
The forum focused on the Ashanti region where the British government had supported some major projects, including the Kejetia Market, the expansion of Kumasi Airport and the construction of the hospital. Bekwai.
Currently, the UK is also involved in the completion of the 47-year-old abandoned Komcon Anokye University Hospital (KATH) maternity block with a € 140 million credit facility.
In this context, the forum was intended to develop a common understanding of priorities for economic development, job creation, trade and investment.
Walker said with enthusiasm that both countries were discussing concrete steps to expand their borders from government to government, at the regional and municipal levels.
Partnership
The KMA director said the badembly would welcome UK business partners for future projects to develop high-risk parking lots, international convention centers and real estate properties in and around the city.
He said the agreement was linked to Ghana's agenda beyond the badistance of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who was vigorously pursued.
"Ghana's relations with the United Kingdom are rooted in long-standing economic, political and cultural relations, shared values and deep ties between their peoples," said the MCE.
He added that nearly half a million Ghanaians based in the United Kingdom, Mr. Iain Walker, United Kingdom High Commissioner to Ghana, pledged that the British government would support the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly to make Kumasi one of the main industrial centers of West Africa.
He added that Kumasi occupied a very important place in the development of Ghana, which is why the United Kingdom would continue to focus on the development of the city.
Mr. Walker said that when the UK government and the government of Ghana signed a new strategic partnership agreement focused on six economic areas of mutual benefit in the framework of the United Kingdom-Ghana Business Council (UK-GBC ).
The agreement, which was signed at the end of a regional business forum in Kumasi, covers six sectors, namely agri-food, extractive industries, garments / textiles, digital products, pharmaceuticals and financial services.
These are three themes: domestic revenue mobilization, ease of doing business and infrastructure.
Charm
Antwi called on the British government to provide more truck terminals and build a multi-storey compartment in Kumasi to help ease congestion in the city center.
He also referred to the establishment of factories in Kumasi: "Kumasi has grown so much that some factories, which were providing jobs, have now disappeared and need to be reactivated."
He called for support in this area as well as an appeal to the UK to help set up a diagnostic plant in the health sector to reduce the number of Ghanaians traveling to South Africa to get treatment.
The MCE stated that the purpose of this relationship was to help Ghana manage its natural resources so that it could finance its projects without depending too much on external aid.
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