President John Mahama has reaffirmed his government’s commitment to strengthening diplomatic and economic ties with the United Kingdom in driving economic growth.
Speaking at a high-level meeting with Deputy UK Prime Minister Angela Rayner and resident officials at the Jubilee House in Accra, President Mahama highlighted key areas of collaboration.
Ghana’s President mentioned trade, investment, and infrastructure development, as part of broader efforts to enhance Ghana’s economic prospects.
He noted that his administration is working to resolve the country’s economic crisis in order to attract investments.
“We’re going through an economic crisis that is known by everybody. We are in an IMF program. And one of the things it enjoins us to do is to be very prudent in terms of our fiscal discipline and to make sure that we’re able to come out of the crisis and bring the country back onto the path of growth and create prosperity for our people. We have a young, growing population and so one of the major issues that came up strongly in the lecture was the issue of jobs.
“So we are working together to see how we can bring in more investments, especially considering that we’re shut out of the international credit markets to bring in more foreign direct investment to be able to create jobs for young people is one of the things that we’re going to be focusing on. And I believe that, I mean with the history of British companies investing in Ghana, we’ve got a long tradition.
So how we can showcase the opportunities that are still available in Ghana and bring more British companies in to come and partner with us in that objective is something that we’ll look to do.”
