Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States, Victor Smith, has urged Ghanaians living in the United States to return home and invest in the country, emphasising the need for skills, capital and partnerships to support the government’s reset agenda.
Addressing Ghanaian congregations in Worcester and Massachusetts last Sunday (30 November 2025), the envoy encouraged the diaspora community to bring their expertise back to Ghana to help accelerate national development. He noted that his mission in the US was centred on attracting investment and fostering strategic collaborations that would create jobs and promote sustainable growth.
“My mission, actually, on this posting to the United States is to try and excite the business community here, to excite investors, to strategically partner with some Ghanaians here as well, to bring development, to bring industry, to create opportunities for Ghanaians,” he said.
“I believe a lot of you have skills that may not be available in Ghana. You know more modern approaches to doing things than we have at home, which you may have acquired whilst travelling across the world or in this US. Our people back home would want people with your kind of skills to come back home to partner them, and to help develop our country sustainably.”
Reset agenda and ICE concerns
Ambassador Smith said the administration of President John Dramani Mahama was working to transform the country through its reset agenda, which he hopes will encourage more Ghanaians abroad to return home and contribute to national progress.
“I believe there’s a new administration with a reset agenda, and we are trying to transform our country in such a way that people rather will be travelling backwards to be part of the transformation and the sustainable development of our country,” he said.
He highlighted the hardships some Ghanaians face in the US, especially challenges linked to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He expressed concern about the distress caused by deportation threats and immigration raids.
“I have seen what is going on with the ICE and how foreigners are chased about in the US. It’s painful for me as a person. I wish we would not be part of that running about with ICE,” he said.
“If our country had developed even as half of this country [the US] has developed, maybe a lot of you would not be here. Everybody would want to be home; but for now, it isn’t the case. So, my job is to attract investments and ask Ghanaians to partner with them to come back home and try to create well-paying jobs.”
He stressed that increased investment in Ghana would provide opportunities for citizens to return and contribute meaningfully to the nation’s growth.
Call for prayer and unity
Ambassador Smith also urged Ghanaians to continue praying for the country’s leadership and for lasting peace, stressing that national unity and stability were essential to attract investors and sustain the ongoing transformation agenda.
He added that this was the right time for Ghanaians to rally behind the country’s development efforts, noting that peace was indispensable to progress.
