I'm building ‘new oil refineries’ as part of our value adding agenda – Akufo-Addo - www.asempanews.com

Speaking at the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly on the theme: “A Watershed Moment: Transformative solutions to interlocking challenges”, on Wednesday, the 21st of September 2019, in New York, the Ghanaian leader said: “We know that industrialisation is the way to go and, with the single market as the added incentive, we have taken policy measures in Ghana to add value to our natural resources”.

Moreover, the spillover from central banks raising interest rates to combat inflation has been severe beyond borders, as global investors pull money out of developing economies to invest in bonds in the developed world.

A watershed moment, indeed, it is, and history will judge us harshly if we do not seize the opportunity to make the changes that will enable us deal with the many problems we face.

He would have been one hundred and thirteen (113) years old today, and it is worth recalling on this day the driving force of his political career, which was to contribute to the birth of a united Africa, i.e., a United States of Africa.

Soon, we will have a customs union, and soon we will have a continental payment system that will accelerate and facilitate trade amongst ourselves

We know that industrialisation is the way to go and, with the single market as the added incentive, we have taken policy measures in Ghana to add value to our natural resources.

I believe it is time for the UN to take proper stock of this initiative and ask a few searching questions, recognising what could have been achieved with greater commitment and focus.