News:
April 10, 2012
Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, Member of Parliament for Kwadaso, has posited that Ghana’s economy could only develop when jobs are created to boost the human resource base of the country.
He said the government needed to transform the fortunes of Ghanaians through the oil find by financing some specific targeted activities to achieve that feat.
Dr. Afriyie Akoto made the remark during a public lecture organised by the Tertiary Education Students Confederacy (TESCON) of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) of the University of Ghana City Campus, to celebrate TESCON week.
According to him, Manufacturing and Agriculture sectors also requires to be transformed in order to make meaningful contributions to the country’s development.
Dr Akoto further stressed that agro processing needed to be promoted, marketed and extended to farmers that need support to develop their skills to cultivate and rear crops and animals to meet international standards.
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