Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies, Joseph Siaw Agyepong, has dismissed suggestions that greed drives his business interests.
According to him, he is content with his current position in life and that he finds joy in seeing people work, thus his interest in building businesses.
Mr Agyepong has in the last few weeks been in the news over government’s contract with the Road Safety Management Limited (RSML) a subsidiary of the Jospong Group to impose a mandatory tow levy on vehicle owners.
Critics have described the move as a bad idea, with others suggesting that the policy was a recipe to “create, loot and share”.
But speaking on Joy FM Tuesday, Mr Agyepong said the driving force behind his business interests is trying to find solutions to problems in society whilst creating employment for the teaming unemployed youth in the country.
He said his joy is "to see people working. I don’t say that I’m greedy. One company is enough to take care of me and my five children. When I create a business, it’s because of employment.”
He said he sees himself as “someone trying to create employment for people [and] to create an environment that will make people work,” stressing, “I consider myself as someone blessed and I have to share the blessing with society”.
He bemoaned the current Ghanaian “system” which he said, practically makes it impossible for young people to start up a business after college education.
The sad thing he noted, “is that you are doing business as a local businessman and at the same time you have foreigners competing with you for the same business.”
He fears that soon, “foreigners will cook and sell waakye,” a delicious meal made from boiled rice and beans enjoyed by Ghanaians, if a decision is not taken to boost local businesses.
Things will be better he said, only “if we can look at the system and see how best we can customize the system for Ghanaians.”
Mr. Siaw Agyepong, therefore, called for the urgent need to protect local businesses maintaining that,“If the demand is not there, there is nothing you can do.”
Waakye
Source: graphic.com.gh
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WHAT IS WRONG WITH FOREIGNERS SELLING WAAKYE? ARE YOU SACRED OF COMPETITION? DON'T FORGET SOME GREAT COUNTRIES OF THIS WORLD WERE BUILT BY MIGRANTS.
Some fo_olish people too dey Peace FM Ooo. Was it necessary to provide a photo of waakye...?? Tweeeaaaa. Poor and Unprofessional journalism Nkoooaaa
YOU'RE WETTING MY APPETITE WITH THIS WAAKYE. NEVERTHELESS, WHERE ARE THE MONIES YOU HAVE COLLECTED FROM THE DISTRICT COMMON FUNDS, AS FAR AS BOLA COLLECTION IS CONCERNED?
Why the society is SICK! You forget to use common sense while littering & the government pumps in 48 million dollars to clean your mess & you have the brains to accuse the man as greedy. Let me rephrase it for you need baptism of commons sense. Else will die poor because you are wasting away your God given brains.
indeed u are very greedy. if not you wont fight gbetsile residents over their land. how can you claim to buy a land from appolonia and add gbetsile land to it. the matter is in court and just last week you went to bribe soldiers to come and demolish houses on gbetsile land. and you claim to be an elder of pentecost church. we will continue to curse you until we receive our lands. our sufferings will never go in vain. I wonder if you are even able to sleep with the curses you receive everyday.
Right about what? because Ghanians did not allow this crook to steel indirectly from them? any levy on cars is on the population and the masses will suffer. SAY NO TO TOWERING LEVIES. Government should instead of given this money to one person, create jobs for people by buying the big cars and employ your delta force people to toll any car which is left on the road, its the person sole responsibility to pay not any body else.
Shu*t up and clean the country with your overdose contracts
so right