Already, the captains of industry have requested among other things, a tax waiver to enable them go about their businesses, Graphic Online understands.
After the closed-door meeting, President Akufo-Addo posted on Facebook: "On Monday, 16th March, 2020, I met with leaders of our country's pharmaceutical and banking industries to discuss at length how best Ghana can begin to reduce her dependency on imports, in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic."
"We are far too dependent on the things made abroad, and imported by us for use. We should be making most of the things we use in Ghana, and needed to combat the spread of the pandemic, by ourselves. The pandemic has very severe consequences, but it also presents us with an opportunity. They say necessity is the mother of invention, and advisedly so."
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