Rawlings grants audience to Baroness Chalker

Accra (Greater Accra), 17 March '99 -

President Jerry John Rawlings on Tuesday appealed to companies to assist in providing some of the amenities needed by Ghana's universities. He said these companies employ a lot of graduates from the universities and should, therefore, play a role in their education. The President said this when he granted audience to Baroness Lynda Chalker, a former British Minister of Overseas Development, now a director of Unilever, the UK multi-national. ''A lot of companies derive benefits from these students when they leave the universities so they should contribute to their training." President Rawlings spoke about fair competition among enterprises and said this should not degenerate into unfair business practices to the disadvantage of the country. Baroness Chalker, who led several British delegations to Ghana in the 1980s, said the country has made progress and needs more foreign direct investment.