The Vice President, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has assured the Ghanaian community in Angola that the government would work in their best interest and rewrite the narratives of the past.
She indicated that although the past was not good, the current administration is intentional about moving the country forward in qualitative ways, which positively affects the basic life of Ghanaians at home and abroad.
“We are moving the country in qualitative ways; ways that affect not only a few people. The NDC-led government thinks of how to raise the people at the margins into the centre, and this government is about governance,” she said.
The Vice President was speaking to the Ghanaian Community in Angola, who joined her delegation at a dinner organised by the Ghana Embassy and Chancery in Luanda, Angola, on the sidelines of the African Union-European Union (AU-EU) Summit on Tuesday night (Nov 25, 2025) in honour of her visit.
Prof. Opoku-Agyemang was joined by other members of the delegation, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa; The Advisor to the Vice President in Policies, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, among others.
She emphasised that the government was making efforts to move from the exportation of raw materials to an industrial one to create jobs for Ghanaians across the country.
“We are trying to find ways to process the raw materials, because that is where you get a lot of wealth; that is where the value rises. If it's all about exporting ra materials, then we are not going to get a lot of benefits,” she said.
As an analogy, she said although the country’s cocoa production created some jobs, a lot more could be created along the cocoa value-chain, if processing of cocoa beans were done before their exportation.
