{"id":138469,"date":"2024-01-12T17:45:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T17:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/12\/ghana-needs-more-integrated-industrial-hubs-nana-kwame-bediako\/"},"modified":"2024-01-12T17:45:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T17:45:08","slug":"ghana-needs-more-integrated-industrial-hubs-nana-kwame-bediako","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/12\/ghana-needs-more-integrated-industrial-hubs-nana-kwame-bediako\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana needs more integrated industrial hubs \u2013 Nana Kwame Bediako"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Independent Presidential aspirant and leader of The New Force, Nana Kwame Bediako has proposed the creation of integrated industrial hubs across the country to spur her development.<\/p>\n

According to him, currently, the nation has only one integrated industrial hub \u2013 the Tema port city \u2013 which is responsible for much of Ghana\u2019s industrial export and this, he says, is not enough to deliver the kind of growth the country needs.<\/p>\n

He has proposed the setting up of integrated industrial hubs across the country to boost the country\u2019s industrial drive and more Ghanaian participation and ownership in these hubs to localise development.<\/p>\n

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Speaking on\u00a0Joy FM<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0Super Morning Show<\/strong>, he said, \u201cYou need to develop a country and make sure that it\u2019s integrated. There\u2019s no point you\u2019re going to put a factory here and then you go put the house 28 miles away so the people will take transport every day to go there and back 56 miles a day.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy eight years the money that you\u2019re selling the house to them, they would have spent it on transport again so every development needs integration regionally.\u201d<\/p>\n

He noted that the blueprint for such integrated development has already been perfected by Western countries.<\/p>\n

Nana Kwame Bediako says all that developing countries like Ghana ought to do is replicate these development patterns to fast-track their own development.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd there\u2019s no problem for us to copy the white people what they\u2019ve done. The system worked over there. We have to replicate it. We\u2019re here being pro-black and fighting white people this, white people that.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease, they stole our money, they stole our gold, they went to build their country, they did it well, now we\u2019re all running back to them. The best way to defeat your enemy and show them that you\u2019re smarter and wiser is to replicate what they\u2019re doing and do it better.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo if we start to make our minds to do things that way and start to build our countries just like America, just like Europe they\u2019re going to respect us,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

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