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Business News of Thursday, 27 October 2011

Source: GNA

Business communities urged to take advantage of policy fair.

' Kumasi, Oct 27, GNA - Vice President John Dramani Mahama has called on business communities in Kumasi to take advantage of the Ashanti Regional Policy Fair by visiting the exhibition stands, especially those mounted by the metropolitan municipal and district assemblies, to identify the fertile grounds in the rural areas where equal motivation exists for further investment.

He said when this happens, "we would be reducing the rapid rural-urban migration being pursued by the youth of our country in search of opportunities which might not even exist in the major cities such as Accra, Kumasi, Takoradi and others."

"The situation further compounds the challenges that we have on our hands in the cities. So in order, not to derail our rural-urban linkage under the current dispensation, there is the need for all hands to be on'