Workers deserve better salaries for economic development – Dr. Kofi Amoah

Dr. Kofi Amoah, a businessman, sports administrator and industrialist has urged the government, employers and business owners to pay workers well to motivate them to put in their full potentials for economic transformation.

According to him, salaries of majority of the Ghanaian workers are inadequate and cannot take care of them and their families, hence, the lack of motivation for them to put in their full potentials while they search for other means to survive.

In an interview with Bernard Avle on Citi Tv’s Point of View programme last Monday, Dr. Amoah said it was long overdue for the government and other stakeholders to develop agriculture and culture as an avenue to expand the economy, saying it was time Ghana stopped exporting raw cocoa beans by setting up cocoa processing companies here to ensure that nobody exports cocoa in its raw form.

Commenting on job creation and economic development, Dr. Amoah observed that most workers pilfer and steal public funds because their salaries are nothing to write home about, adding that other people have the money to create jobs but were unwilling to do so.

He noted that because of lack of jobs people are pushed to work where their services are not needed, and suggested that Parliament requests the sector ministers to engage the required hands at the ministry in order not to bloat the institution with staff.

Dr. Amoah also underscored that in dealing with unemployment, investing in the people and land is paramount, subsidy of equipment to farmers, giving of cheap loans to businesses and protection of boundaries could also help.

According to him, Africa is poor because we were colonised, but now we have freedom yet we are failing to create domestic economy, creating businesses for our own people.

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