Ga Mantse seeks support to empower youth

The Ga Mantse, Nii Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, has extended an invitation to organisations to partner the Ga State in its development agenda to create opportunities for the youth to develop their skills and talent to reduce unemployment in the city.

He said this had become a major priority of the Ga State for which reason his outfit had established a business desk to leverage corporate social responsibility in areas such as education, health and businesses, among others, to support the people.

Nii Teiko Tsuru, therefore, called for support from corporate institutions to achieve his transformational agenda. He was speaking when a delegation from the GCB Bank, led by the Managing Director, Kofi Adomakoh, paid a courtesy call on him at his palace in Accra to thank him and the people for the support given to the bank over the past 70 years.

The delegation presented customary items to the Ga Mantse to support his activities.

Peace

The Ga Mantse also stressed the need to sustain the prevailing peace in the city to create an enabling environment for businesses to thrive for accelerated growth.

He urged other institutions to emulate the gesture of the GCB Bank, while encouraging the people to join hands with his outfit in the ongoing clean-up campaign in Accra to make the city clean for people to go about their businesses in a healthy environment.

Investment

The MD said for the bank to thrive, there was the need for a peaceful and enabling environment “and it is one of the reasons we are here today. We are here to ask for support for peace in our community so that we can make greater investment, particularly in your area of jurisdiction”.

He said Greater Accra remained a significant portion of the bank’s business as most of the profit was generated in the region, and for that matter the bank under its corporate social responsibility had created employment for many people in the area.

Financial Inclusion

Mr Adomakoh said one of the major challenges of the economy was financial inclusion.

“How do we get many more citizens, particularly the youth, to have bank accounts, especially those in the informal sectors? “We are an indigenous bank and it is indigenous banks that will develop the nation,” he said.

The MD pledged the bank’s continuous support to the Ga State in all endeavours to promote a strong community “because we cannot have a strong bank and a weak community.

They go together”. “Through our values of collaboration and growth, we find it necessary to get in touch with the community from time to time,” he added.

Mr Adomakoh further said that the bank would collaborate with the business desk at the palace to see how it could support the development drive of the Ga State.