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Voltarians must
invest back home - GIPC
Ho, Nov. 17, Ghanadot/GNA - Mr George Aboagye, Chief Executive
Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) on
Tuesday urged people from the Volta Region to invest back home.
Speaking at a seminar as part of the Volta Trade and Investment
Fair, Mr Aboagye said Volta Region abounded in high caliber
human resources capable of transforming the region economically.
He said those human resources serving in varied sectors of the
country should be mobilized to transform the socio-economic
fortunes of the region.
"You must use yourselves as the vehicle for development and not
thinking of someone elsewhere," he admonished.
Mr Aboagye called on the people to abandon traditional practices
that tended to discourage natives from investing in the region.
He described the Fair as impressive and of good standard and
advised natives to take advantage of opportunities offered to
promote their businesses.
Mr Raymond Okudzeto, President of Volta Foundation, a
development Non Governmental Organisation, mentioned some of the
economic opportunities in the region as agriculture and tourism
and advised people from within and outside to explore those
potentials.
He described the region as environmentally friendly and picking
up in industrial development.
"Apart from the rice plantation at Afife and a cement factory, a
fertilizer plant would soon be established with several rice
plantations all over the region," Mr Okudzeto said.
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