Coca Cola To Buy Pineapples From Ghana

Mr John Dramani Mahama - Veep

Coca Cola Bottling Company Ltd, manufacturers of soft drink and beverages, is to purchase pineapples from Ghana for processing into the company’s products.

This came to light during the recent trip of the Vice-President, Mr John Dramani Mahama, to the USA. He had been invited by the Department of Pan-African Studies and the College of Arts and Science of the University of Louisville in Kentucky to deliver a lecture on the theme, “The Challenges of Good Governance in Africa”.

Briefing journalists at the Castle, Osu, in Accra yesterday, the Spokesperson for the Vice-President, Mr John Jinapor, said the company also indicated its interest in supporting the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) sector in the government’s agenda to develop agriculture in the country.

He also announced the intention of Wayne Company, suppliers of tractors and heavy equipment, to rehabilitate all broken down equipment in the country.

The company, which will be based in Tamale, will sell the repaired equipment to contractors and farmers at an affordable rate.

According to Mr Jinapor, Mr Mahama took the opportunity to hold meetings with various businesses and other groups with the view to increasing investment in the country and also informed them about some new government policy initiatives, including the Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA).

“In all his meetings, the Vice-President provided both potential investors and groups that already have interest in Ghana with a snap view of Ghana and why their investment will be safe and profitable,” he stressed.

He said Mr Mahama also spoke about the government’s commitment to an open, transparent and accountable leadership, the commitment to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), besides political stability and guaranteed security.

The Vice-President was also reported to have announced, among other things, that the government was implementing policies that would ensure that investors were secure.

Mr Jinapor said Mr Mahama also met the acting Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), Jonathan Bloom, and pointed out President Mills’s growing concern over the low level of local involvement in the execution of contracts under the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA).

The Vice-President further made reference to the M1 highway project (Tetteh Quarshie to Mallam) which President Mills spoke about during his last visit to the USA, reiterating that the government was of the view that there was still room for local content in the execution of that project and others.