The brain behind Tobinco Group of companies, Elder Nana Amo Tobbin I has urged Ghanaians to patronise locally produced products to help boost the economy.
According to Nana Amo Tobbin, Chief Executive Officer Of the largest and vibrant pharmaceutical and research company in West Africa, patronising locally produced products is the only way to make Ghana a very nice place to live.
He believes when we patronise made in Ghana goods will create more employment opportunities for the young people in the country and also have enough money to circulate in the economy and by so doing the economy becomes viable and more competitive among other economies.
“When we buy our own…we produce more and when we produce more, we create more employments”
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Entrance Pharmaceuticals and Research Center, which is located in the heart of Accra, Ghana is one of his numerous companies. This company produces the most effective malaria drug, Lufart and other drugs on the market. With the exception of Nigeria, Tobinco exports drugs to almost every African country.
Tobinco Group employs close to two thousand workers and feeds millions of dependents in Ghana and other parts of the world.
Moreover, Nana Amo Tobbin said the manufacturing industry in Ghana has really come a long way and it’s doing amazingly well so Ghanaians should drop their primitive mentality and support their own and Ghana will be a better place to live.
Ghana is doing very well in the Pharmaceutical sector, agricultural sector, fashion and other notable sectors of the economy and for that matter we should make a conscious effort to patronize our own products.
Recounting his humble beginnings, Elder Nana Amo Tobbin I says he used to sell groceries on the streets while he was in school.
The business tycoon said he had to sell toffees, chewing gums, polythene bags and others either in the morning before going to school or in the afternoon after school because he was attending the shift system of schooling .
Born into a ‘poor’ family, he said he had to hawk on the streets until he gathered money to start selling medicine.
As a beginner, he said some of the medicines were given to him on credit and he had to send some to Tarkwa and other towns in the Western and the Eastern Regions to sell.
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