According to the Authority, compliance with the Free Zones Act 1995 (Act 504), and Free Zones Regulation (L.I. 1618), is the obligation of businesses to the Government of Ghana.

Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Free Zones Authority (GFZA), Micheal Okyere Baafi, made the remarks at a forum with CEOs of Free Zones Enterprises in the Ashanti Region.

He said a new unit which has been set up to monitor the activities of free zones enterprises would be the policing wing of its secretariat in the Ashanti Region, to ensure that the operations of the enterprises go on smoothly.

He further indicated that the policing mandate of the unit will also enable it identify problems faced by free zone enterprises for quick responses.

He also announced that the IT unit of the Authority has been expanded and made more transformed into a Management Information System (MIS).

He revealed that the Board intends to set up a new unit at the Secretariat for Oil and Gas since the sector is a new area enterprises should venture into.

“The mission of the GFZA is to help transform Ghana into the Gateway to West Africa by creating an attractive and conducive business environment through the provision of competitive Free Zone incentives and operation of an efficient one-stop-shop for the promotion and enhancement of domestic investment”, he added.

The forum, which was on the theme “Resolving Challenges for Business Growth”, brought together over fifty (50) CEOs of Free Zones Enterprises in the Ashanti Region.

The CEOs also called on the Free Zones Authority to increase their engagements with them.

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By: Hafiz Tijani/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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[contextly_sidebar id=”K9ear4Zx5R0G732KNyc97yE6rRpvRgBx”]The Chief Executive Officer of the Board, Mr Michael Okyere Baafi said that strengthening local investors and companies were top on his outfit’s priorities, he said “it is our key priority to help in any way we can to strengthen the local investors because we believe in them and know perfectly that the hold the future economy of this country.”

He was speaking on the sidelines of the Annual CEO’S conference held in Koforidua over the weekend to interact and share plans which will enhance the relationship and collaboration between the board and its investors.

Mr. Okyere Baafi added that, “we as a body have three key areas we want to champion and the first is working with speed. We want fast track all dealings and activities in the processes of documentations because we do not want to be like our public institutions where delays in processes occurs all the time, we want to do things differently so we will not create artificial traffic and bureaucracy so we have engaged with other stakeholders like the immigration services and they are prepared to process our emergency visas and work permits very fast.”

He also acknowledged the important roles the media played in government also called on its practitioners to help the Board to carve a new impressive image.

“We know we haven’t been doing well in the past but now we want to position ourselves well in the minds of both local and foreign investors so that they will recognize us as a very important and serious-minded investment agency and we want you the media to help us in this regard,” he said.

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By: Neil Nii Amatey Kanarku/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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A new photo of the two that has gone viral on social media shows Obuobia Darko-Opoku of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) and Tina Mensah of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) facing each other and holding hands in a public prayer.

[contextly_sidebar id=”e4wrtGh5RtXGtdk9MtMVnDN4sVU3qEhi”]Citifmonline.com sources say the photo was taken at the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church at Mendskrom in the constituency on Sunday [October 30].

The two were invited by the Church to participate in its annual harvest.

The heated campaign in the constituency seemed to have caused some enmity betweeen the two.

Both parties have been axtively seeking to secure influence in the constituency in the run-up to the December polls.

Recently, supporters of the two candidates engaged in a face-off when loyalists to Tina Mensah tried to stop Obuobia Darko-Opoku from donating an ambulance to the Gas South Municipal Hospital.

According to Tina Mensah, Obuobia was taking advantage of her position as the Deputy Director of the Ghana Free Zones Board to undertake such government gestures and touting them as her personal projects.

A parliamentary debate organized by National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) with support from the Coalition for Domestic Elections Observers (CODEO) and the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) for the candidates of the constituency had to be rescheduled last week after Tina Mensah boycotted it, alleging that the questions had been leaked to Obuobia.

The Weija-Gbawe constituency has been identified as one of the key constituencies to watch in the upcoming elections.

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By: Jonas Nyabor/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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