The government has expressed its readiness to deepen collaboration with Zoomlion Ghana Limited to make environmental cleanliness, climate resilience, innovation, and sustainable job creation an everyday reality for Ghanaians.
The Minister for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Hon. Ibrahim Ahmed, made this pronouncement on Friday, December 12, as Guest of Honour at the climax of the Jospong Annual Thanksgiving Service 2025, held at the Group’s head office in Adjirigarnor, Accra.
“The government is ready to deepen its partnership with Zoomlion Ghana Limited, and by extension the subsidiaries of the Jospong Group, to build a Ghana where cleanliness, resilience, innovation, and job creation become everyday realities, not distant aspirations,” he declared.
Mr. Ahmed noted that the partnership is strategic, describing Zoomlion’s contributions as essential to national goals such as improving local services, creating sustainable employment for young people, safeguarding environmental health, strengthening decentralisation, and achieving sustainable development.
He reaffirmed the government’s commitment to strengthening collaboration with Zoomlion and the Jospong Group, emphasising the critical role of the private sector in national development, especially in environmental sanitation and waste management.
Placing the Group’s growth within a historical context, the Minister compared Zoomlion’s continental expansion to Ghana’s notable milestones:
“The first wave was Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s liberation efforts across the continent.
The second was when the Black Stars conquered African football.
The third wave is Zoomlion’s expansion across Africa, another historic symbol of Ghana’s global influence.”
Mr. Ahmed highlighted the success of the existing public-private partnership.
He revealed that during a sanitation benchmarking trip to South Korea, only two African countries impressed Korean officials: Ghana and Morocco.
He attributed Ghana’s strong showing to the 36 completed composting, recycling, and waste treatment plants, the largest sanitation infrastructure in West Africa, developed through collaboration with Zoomlion.
He further disclosed that the company’s waste management infrastructure played a major role in the United Nations adjudging Ghana the “Sanitation and Waste Management Hub for West Africa” in 2025.
The Minister traced the Group’s evolution from “a small office at Jamestown” to its current status as a conglomerate operating across more than 14 sectors, with 78 subsidiaries in over 24 African countries.
“Tell me, which other Ghanaian company commands presence in 25 African countries? None,” he said, describing the achievement as “historic, inspirational, and a testament to Ghanaian excellence.”
He stressed that Zoomlion’s work is indispensable to national development:
“As a nation, we cannot discuss environmental sanitation, waste management, public health, the green economy, or modern local governance without acknowledging the remarkable contribution of the Jospong Group and Zoomlion.”
The Minister’s pledge reinforced the symbiotic relationship earlier acknowledged by the Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group, Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong, who attributed the conglomerate’s growth to divine guidance and consistent national support.
In his welcome address, Dr. Agyepong reflected on the Group’s evolution from a single printing press in Jamestown in 1995 to a multinational industrial leader.
“Thus far has the Lord helped us,” he said, quoting scripture.
He revealed that Zoomlion now operates 36 functional plants spanning solid, liquid, and medical waste treatment, positioning Ghana as a “centre of industrial excellence on the African continent.”
Dr. Agyepong noted that the Group now operates in over 25 African countries, including Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, The Gambia and Gabon.
He acknowledged and thanked successive Ghanaian leaders for their support in shaping the Group’s progress, paying tribute to the late Jerry John Rawlings, the late Prof. John Evans Atta Mills, former Presidents John Agyekum Kufuor and Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, as well as President John Dramani Mahama and First Lady Lordina Mahama.
Recalling his early days of engagement with national leaders, he said of his first meeting with President Kufuor: “I was frightened.”
Dr. Agyepong concluded that the company’s success is not merely a result of business strategy but a “manifestation of divine covenant, revelation, and mystery,” a national testimony of what is possible with vision, faith, and opportunity.
Source: myxyzonline.com
