Wed, 05 Jul 2017 12:17:05 +0000 BENNIE MUNDANDO, IN ACCRA, GHANA AFRICA must break the tradition of exporting raw material to the rest of the world by transforming itself into a hub for finished products to which other continents will look. “We have plenty of natural resources to help us achieve transformation,” Ghana country manager for Sahara Energy and Petroleum group Tosin Etomi has observed. And company corporate social responsibility manager Babatomiwa Adesida says his company’s legacy was premised on its drive to plough back to the communities in which it operated because it believed in improving the quality of life of the people. Speaking to Zambian journalists in Accra on Monday, Mr. Etomi said it was sad that while Africa produced over 80 percent of the raw materials the world needed, it had remained the major importer of goods from the same materials and said that there was need to change the status […]
