The chairman of the Ashanti Regional NPP Newspaper Vendors Association, Bismark Ayensu, has lauded the Vice President and NPP’s flagbearer, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, for the proposed private sector agenda to grow the economy.
A youth leader in Kumasi has called on the government to encourage private sector growth through incentives towards reduction in government expenditure to grow the economy.
Bismark Ayensu, chairman of the Newspaper Vendors Association in Kumasi, suggested that the private sector facilitating the growth of the private sector by way of tax amnesty to all businesses and introduction of a flat tax system would align to reset the agenda of the Mahama-led government.
Mr. Ayensu further recommended renowned industrialists like Ibrahim Mahama, founder of Engineers and Planners, a West African indigenous-owned mining company, be considered as a major stakeholder in the private sector growth agenda.
The chief vendor suggested that Mr. Ibrahim Mahama, who owns several businesses in Ghana, including Dzata Cement Limited and seen as a role model must be given the required push to help grow the economy and promote Corporate Ghana. He added that Ghanaians see Ibrahim Mahama first as a Ghanaian capable of contributing to the growth of the economy and not a blood relation of President John Dramani Mahama.
“It is time Ghana also encourages businesses to grow and create the likes of Aliko Dangote locally”, he said.
This step, Mr. Ayensu noted, would enable entrepreneurs and business entities to absorb the teeming unemployed youth in employment and thus lessen the burden of the government.
