For the private sector of the economy to actively live up to its tag as the much-touted engine of growth, it is imperative that government appointees and all those placed in responsible positions in the public sector and the banks accord it the due recognition and support, Rev.

Nana Dwomoh Sarpong, an industrialist, has emphasised.

He noted that though it was generally acknowledged that the private sector had the capacity to ease the country's ever-rising un­employment problem and power economic growth, it had not been given the much-needed attention.

Speaking to journalists, the Ac­cra-based industrialist, expressed dissatisfaction with the nonchalant attitude often exhibited by some public officials who use cumber­some bureaucratic processes to frustrate private sector players in business transactions.