{"id":367523,"date":"2017-11-01T18:30:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T18:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=367523"},"modified":"2017-11-01T18:30:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T18:30:51","slug":"come-back-home-to-help-ghana-ambassador-urges-ghanaians-in-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/come-back-home-to-help-ghana-ambassador-urges-ghanaians-in-denmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Come back home to help Ghana \u2013 Ambassador urges Ghanaians in Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ghana\u2019s Ambassador to Denmark, Her Excellency Mrs. Amerley Ollenu Awua-Asamoa, has appealed to skilled Ghanaians in Denmark to return home as often as possible, to support Ghana\u2019s development Agenda.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Citi Business News<\/strong> in Copenhagen, at a reception by her office to welcome four Ghanaian journalists on a press trip at the invitation of the Danish Government, Her Excellency Mrs. Amerley Ollenu Awua-Asamoa, said Government\u2019s policy of diaspora engagement is aimed at attracting Ghana\u2019s high quality manpower to help bring home the needed investment to drive the government’s industrialization agenda.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cLooking at the government initiative or policy on diaspora engagements where we think most of the Ghanaians in the diaspora are intellectuals and have been here for some time, we need them to come home to help build the economy. And in that sense, as far as our Mission is concerned, we want to engage the diaspora, collaborate and network with them to bring investors back home. We want them to bring their skills and technical know-how to assist the Ghanaian community. Forming partnerships with foreign countries is a win-win situation, and we believe they know our culture very well, so if they have any skills, this is the time to come and assist in transforming Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n The Ambassador also expressed optimism that the visit of the Queen of Denmark to Ghana would go a long way to strengthen the Ghana beyond Aid agenda.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe are very excited that the Queen is visiting Ghana because it\u2019s very historic. She has never been to West Africa, and she has selected Ghana and so it means a lot to us. It\u2019s a big privilege for us. And looking at it from the perspective that Ghana is moving from aid to trade, and Denmark is also transiting from aid to trade as far as her development partners are concerned, for us, it\u2019s a very positive idea\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n Expensive visas making trips home difficult \u2013 Ghanaians in Demark<\/strong><\/p>\n However, speaking at the residence\u00a0the Ghanaian Ambassador, a Ghanaian IT Consultant in Denmark, Kwame Owusu Danquah, blamed the high cost of visas for their inability to come home often to contribute their quota to national development.<\/p>\n