President John Dramani Mahama
President John Dramani Mahama has stated that the government will accelerate efforts at making science and technology a major tool in development.
He said there was a direct relationship among science, technology and development and his government would not deviate from that relationship as it worked to advance national development.
Science and technology had the capacity to accelerate Ghana?s transition from a lower middle-income nation to an upper middle-income country.
President Mahama said this when Dr Imtinan Elahi Qureshi, the Executive Director of the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) led a delegation to call on him at the Flagstaff House on Monday.
He said since Ghana was an agrarian country and relied on rains for its agriculture, making science and technology the focus of agricultural development was important.
President Mahama indicated that Ghana had the comparative advantage to increase production and export to neighboring countries.
Source: Andrew Nettey
