Mills gives assurance of job creation environment

Accra, March 16, GNA- President John Evans Atta Mills on Monday reiterated Government's determination to create an enabling investment environment to facilitate job creation.

He reiterated that job creation and human resource development in an environment of openness, honesty and transparency remained top on the agenda of Government.

Government, he said would work on rules that constituted burden and drawback to the investment community and ensure that disputes were settled expeditiously.

President Mills gave the assurance when Mr. Lazarus Agbarzo, President of General Electric, led a delegation to pay a courtesy call on him at the Castle, Osu, in Accra. The call was to congratulate the President on his assumption to the Presidency and introduce the organisation and its activities to him. President Mills said Ghana welcomed investors in the provision of jobs and human resources development that would go to the beneift of the people, and reiterated that the focus of Government was to place the welfare of the people at the centre of its activities.

He said Government would provide equal opportunities for the people and use the resources of the state to better the lives of Ghanaians. President Mills assured General Electric to feel at home with its investment and it should count on the support of Government for the right environment.

Mr Agbarzo, congratulated the President on his new office, and Ghanaians on their success at the last general elections, which he described as a really important event for Ghana and Africa. He said the peaceful change of power was an indication that democracy had come to stay.

Mr Agbarzo said General Electric dealt in health sector, and existed in some district hospitals in Ghana. It also operates in the energy sector as well as infrastructure development in emerging markets, Mr Agbarzo addded, and expressed the organisation's desire to continue doing business in Ghana under the new political administration of President Mills. 16 March 09