The Ghana Ambassador to Burkina Faso His Excellency and former Member of Parliament (MP) for the Nabdam District Boniface Gambila have called on the government to ban the importation of rice, toothpicks, and matches into the country.
Ghana’s Ambassador to Burkina Faso made the call during an exclusive interaction with Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com
According to the Amb. Gambila, “Is really difficult because the reality is hitching on all of us and all of us are not making effort to be productive because some of us don’t have the capacity. So, now it means that government should be able to identify that and provide the capacity so that people will not pine but will rather move into something”.
“So, Government should look into certain sectors and expand those sectors for people to be able to find something doing. As for this buy and sell, people like doing buy and sell block it. Ban the import of rice from Europe and all those places and let everybody go into the rice business in Ghana.
We should learn to eat our own local rice. At the moment, the imported rice is not banned and so, people are pretending that they can’t eat the local rice. But if you ban it, in times of war if foreign rice is not coming, won’t we eat the local rice?
So, we are not been hard, we are not been pragmatic to ban certain things. There are certain imports we should ban. Why do we need toothpicks in this country, what for? We have a nime tree. If you eat and your meat gets stuck go and get a nime tree break it and sack it off. Why should we import matches when there was a matches factory, of course, those Nkrumah’s factories are now old models and technology has changed but is something that government could get the private sector to take it up. If you ban matches from coming into this country, a private Ghanaian will take it up”.
The challenges have come and the President himself doesn’t want those challenges but they are bound to come. He concluded
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