The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Free Zones Board has indicated their readiness to work with local investors to help expand their businesses in order to compete with foreign investors.

Michael Okyere Baafi was speaking on the sidelines on the Annual CEO’S conference held at Koforidua in the Eastern Region.

Okyere Baafi said the agenda to strengthen local investors and companies is top on his outfit’s priorities.

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“It is our key priority to help in any way we can to strengthen the local investors because we believe in them and know perfectly that the hold the future economy of this country,” he said.

“We as a body have three key areas we want to champion and the first is working with speed. We want fast track all dealings and activities in the processes of documentations because we do not want to be like our public institutions where delays in processes occurs all the time, we want to do things differently so we will not create artificial traffic and bureaucracy so we have engaged with other stakeholders like the immigration services and they are prepared to process our emergency visas and work permits very fast.”

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He added that they cannot do this without the help of the media. He, therefore, called on the media to help in making them realise their objectives.

“We know we haven’t been doing well in the past but now we want to position ourselves well in the minds of both local and foreign investors so that they will recognise us as a very important and serious-minded investment agency and we want you the media to help us in this regard,” he said.