According to Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, the minister of information, the government would soon forbid the importation of goods that can be produced domestically.
The Minister claims that the action is a part of government attempts to lower the high cost of living in the nation.
On Monday, October 31, 2022, Oppong-Nkrumah declared during the “Nyansapo” breakfast program on Kumasi’s OTEC 102.9 FM that the government will be enhancing local businesses’ capacity to produce more products and employment locally over the following six months.
He added that excessive importation of certain products particularly foods that can be produced in Ghana will be banned after local producers begin to feed the economy with the needed capacity
“Government has deployed pragmatic and practical strategies to strengthen the capacities of local producers to help increase the local production of food items”.
“We have already acknowledged that the present economic woes of the country were a result of the high rate of importation and demand for foreign goods, especially food items”.
“That is why the government has decided to ban the importation of certain goods such as poultry products, rice, fish, and cooking oil among others,” he said.
He noted that the high taste for foreign goods was seriously affecting local production adding that government is taking urgent steps to control the situation.