CCMA Chief Executive woos Investors to Direct attention to Cape Coast
Story: GEORGINA APPIAH
The Metropolitan Chief Executive for Cape Coast, George Justice Arthur has called on international and local investors to direct investment to the ancient capital.
In his quest to create employment opportunities for the young people in Cape Coast, the MCE said he would endeavor to create the enabling environment to attract investment opportunities to the metropolis.
“My priority is to ensure that there’s immense development for Cape Coast”, Mr Arthur emphasized.
The Cape Coast Mayor made the statement in an interview with GnewsPrime.com in Cape Coast.
He stressed on the importance of investment to the development of Cape Coast, indicating that “as it stands, the metropolitan status is not befitting because a number of challenges such as lack of industrialization, falling standards of education, total darkness in Cape Coast and deplorable roads have affected the area immensely”.
Mayor Arthur mentioned that the metropolitan assembly should be innovative to maximize revenue.
“There are tourists potentials to leverage to increase revenue. We can generate revenue in diverse ways to run the metropolis efficiently”, he added.
”As a Chief Executive, I’m pursuing a 120 day policy which include a stakeholder engagement to deliberate on how best to develop Cape Coast, ensuring a clean environment by reintroducing the ‘town council’ system to check poor sanitation issues. Also, plans are underway to improve the lighting system in Cape Coast, reintroduce the 30 percent admission quota for Cape Coast students to benefit from the good schools in the Metropolis and reduce the unemployment rate by establishing a shoe and garment factory in the city to create employment for the youths”.
He was however worried about some residents’ refusal to pay for property tax, revealing that a lot of people build without permits, an area that could generate huge revenue for the assembly
George Arthur hoped to focus attention on property rate and market tax among others to generate revenue for the assembly to complement the district assembly common fund.
