President Akufo-Addo has created a new ministry, Business Development which would ensure that the private sector is given the needed support to function effectively.
Awal Mohammed, the newly appointed Minister-designate to head the Business Development Ministry, believes with unemployment remaining as the key worry of Ghanaians, supporting the private sector would be one of the engines of growth to achieve this goal.
Speaking after his appointment, Awal said, “if the private sector is productive, efficient and competitive they would be able to expand, create jobs and employ the people.”
The former Managing Director of Daily Communications Group Limited said by doing this, government would be improving the living conditions of the people and livelihoods.
According to him, he would ensure that he gets investment for the private sector, improve issues of lack of capacity, aid with access to funding and let them apply modern business practices and technology.
“We need to investment in infrastructure, manufacturing, ICT and in Services. So we are going to make sure that we coordinate all the investment programs of the ministries and direct them to the very needed sectors of the economy,” the 2009 Marketing Man of the Year said.
Bio
Ibrahim Mohammed Awal is the former Managing Director of Graphic Communications Group Limited and Chase Petroleum. The 55-year-old Awal is an entrepreneur and a marketer.
He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Marble Communications Group Limited, publishers of The Finder Group of Newspapers, HMW printers, Marble Consultants and Marble Developers.
Adjudged the ‘Marketing Man of the Year 2009’, Awal holds three master’s degrees in various disciplines from different universities. He has Masters in Applied Business Research (Swiss Business School, Switzerland), Executive Masters in Business Administration (University of Ghana Business School, Legon), Masters in International Journalism (University of Wales, UK).
He has also undertaken courses in Business Strategy at Havard Business School, USA, and oil production and management at Oxford, UK. He is also at the tail end of his doctoral program at the Swiss Business School pursuing doctorate in Business Administration.
Awal, who is married with four children, is also a product of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ).
He has worked closely with many companies, particularly, with Small and Medium Enterprises, where he offered consultancy services in the areas of business strategy, management, marketing and communications.
Awal has also consulted for Diplomatic Missions, international development partners as well as state institutions.