The government has expressed its readiness to deepen collaboration with Zoomlion Ghana Limited to make environmental cleanliness, climate resilience, innovation and sustainable job creation an everyday reality for Ghanaians.
The Minister of Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Ibrahim Ahmed, made the assertion last Friday as the Guest of Honour at the climax of the Jospong Annual Thanksgiving Service at the company’s head office at Adjirigarnor, Accra.
“The government is ready to deepen its partnership with Zoomlion Ghana Limited and by extension the Jospong Group's subsidiaries to drive Ghana where cleanliness, resilience, innovation and job creation become everyday reality and not a distant aspiration,” Mr Ibrahim declared.
He stated that the partnership was strategic, as Zoomlion’s work was essential to key national goals: improving local services, creating sustainable jobs for young people, safeguarding environmental health, strengthening decentralisation and ensuring sustainable development.
The Local Government Minister also affirmed the government's commitment to “deepen this partnership with the Jospong Group and Zoomlion,” highlighting the private sector's critical role in national development, particularly in environmental sanitation and waste management.
He placed Zoomlion and Jospong Group's growth in a historic context, saying, “The first wave was Dr Kwame Nkrumah’s liberation efforts across the continent.”
"The second wave was when Ghana Black Stars conquered African football”, adding that the third wave is “Zoomlion’s expansion across Africa, which Mr Ibrahim said had become another historic symbol of Ghana’s global influence.
Proven results
Mr Ibrahim highlighted that the existing public-private partnership was a model of success, noting that during an official sanitation benchmarking trip to South Korea, “only two African countries impressed the Koreans: Ghana and Morocco.”
Ibrahim Ahmed (right), Minister of Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, and Sam George (left), Minister of Communication, at the thanksgiving service
He attributed this recognition to the “36 completed composting, recycling and waste treatment plants, the largest sanitation infrastructure in West Africa,” developed through the collaboration under Zoomlion’s scope.
He revealed that Zoomlion's waste management infrastructure was pivotal in the United Nations adjudging Ghana as the “Sanitation and Waste Management Hub for West Africa” in 2025.
From Jamestown to continental giant
Tracing Zoomlion and the Jospong Group's humble beginnings, the Local Government Minister said its expansion from “a small office at Jamestown” to a conglomerate operating in over 14 sectors with 78 subsidiaries across more than 24 African countries was phenomenal and historical in Ghana’s context.
“Tell me, which other Ghanaian company commands a presence in 25 African countries?
None,” he stated, calling the feat “historical, inspirational and a testament to Ghanaian excellence.”
Mr Ibrahim emphasised the indispensability of Zoomlion's work to national development, stating that “As a nation, we cannot discuss environmental sanitation, waste management, public health, the green economy or modern local governance without acknowledging the remarkable contribution of the Jospong Group and Zoomlion.”
Government support pivotal
The Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group, Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, said the government pledge reinforced the symbiotic relationship between the state and the private sector.
He said consistent government support was a cornerstone of the company’s divine-guided success.
In a welcome address, Dr Siaw Agyepong attributed the conglomerate’s remarkable growth from a single printing press to a multi-national industrial leader to divine providence and consistent national support.
He reflected on the group’s evolution, stating, “Thus far has the Lord helped us.”
Dr Siaw Agyepong detailed the scale of the group’s flagship environmental arm, Zoomlion, revealing that it now operated “36 functional plants spanning solid waste, liquid waste and medical waste treatment,” making Ghana a “centre of industrial excellence on the African continent.”
The group’s footprint, which began at the Jospong Printing Press at Jamestown in 1995, he stated, now extended across “more than 25 African countries, including Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, The Gambia and Gabon.”
Dr Siaw Agyepong indicated that “Truly, this is the doing of the Lord, and it is marvellous in our eyes.”
He paid tribute to late President Jerry John Rawlings, who visited Zoomlion facilities “even on his birthday”, the late President John Evans Atta Mills, former Presidents John Agyekum Kufuor and Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
He recalled the early days of meeting the then-President Kufuor, saying, “I was frightened.”
Dr Siaw Agyepong also expressed profound gratitude to the sitting President, John Dramani Mahama, and the First Lady, Lordina Dramani Mahama, for their immense support for the indigenous enterprise.
He insisted that the company’s success was not merely a result of strategy but a “manifestation of divine covenant, revelation and mystery”, framing the group's story as a national testimony of what is possible with vision and enablement.
