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Mike Oquaye Jnr.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Free Zones Authority (GFZA), Mike Oquaye Jnr., has kicked start a week-long engagement with licensed free zone companies in the Ashanti and Western regions.<\/p>\n Together with his team, the GFZA boss kicked off the customer-facing engagement in the Ashanti Region at Angel FM, where he answered questions on the plans Ghana has to accelerate the development of the Kumasi Industrial City Project.<\/p>\n The CEO stressed the need for Ashanti-based industrialists with export orientation to take advantage of available incentives.<\/p>\n The team visited the Juaben Oil Mills Limited, and Logs & Lumber Ghana Limited. While interacting with the management, Mr. Oquaye noted the company\u2019s concerns and committed to working with other state actors to address them.<\/p>\n The GFZA team then paid a courtesy call to the Omanhene of the Juaben traditional area, Nana Otuo Siriboe II.<\/p>\n Mr. Oquaye thanked Nana Otuo Siriboe II for his continuous support for industrialization and for guiding and shaping the growth of Juaben Oil Mills from inception.<\/p>\n Nana Otuo Siriboe II commended the GFZA and urged the organisation to do more to achieve its mandate.<\/p>\n At OLAM Ghana Limited, Mr. Oquaye encouraged the company to do more for the sector as he committed working to clear bottlenecks that might impede their growth.<\/p>\n In the Western Region, Mr. Oquaye paid a working visit to the Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko Mensah, to discuss pertinent land-related issues before heading to the Lands Commission.<\/p>\n The GFZA team then met with the CEO and management team of Wayoe Engineering & Construction Limited, one of the largest privately-owned Ghanaian engineering and construction companies in West Africa.<\/p>\n The group toured the new factory of the company to get a sense of the investment the company had made and its growth potential.<\/p>\n Mr. Oquaye moved to the Amalitech Limited, a social enterprise that harnesses the potential of remote work to build the future of work in sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n Speaking at the end of the one-week working visit, Mr. Oquaye expressed satisfaction with the achievements of many of the institutions in the two regions.<\/p>\n He also charged the regional heads of the GFZA to continue delivering value to all GFZA-licensed businesses.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mike Oquaye Jnr. \u00a0 The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Free Zones Authority (GFZA), Mike Oquaye Jnr., has kicked start a week-long engagement with licensed free zone companies in the Ashanti and Western regions. Together with his team, the GFZA boss kicked off the customer-facing engagement in the Ashanti Region at Angel FM, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1223356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[2960,650,2756,7054,4693,1544,4995],"class_list":{"0":"post-1223354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-ashanti","9":"tag-ceo","10":"tag-free","11":"tag-regions","12":"tag-tours","13":"tag-western","14":"tag-zones"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}