Local businesses urged to invest in Ghana

Opare-Kumi
Opare-Kumi

Botswana businesses have been urged to exploit the many investment opportunities offered by Ghana. Solomon Opare-Kumi, the honorary consul of Ghana to Botswana, told delegates at the second instalment of the inBusiness Magazine annual breakfast seminar last week that his country has recently opened up a wide range of new business opportunities for non-Ghanaians.

“We guarantee the freedom for non-Ghanaians to establish and run enterprises in potentially lucrative areas,” he said.

According to Opare-Kumi, the West African country has ongoing privatisation initiatives that also open up a number of sectors for new business partnerships and investment. He said Batswana investors may benefit from a number of investment incentives that promote new enterprises and support existing ones in Ghana, including tax holidays, tax rebates and exemptions, and capital allowances.

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