Prof. Daniel Agyapong of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) Department of Finance and Director at the Directorate of Academic Planning and Quality Assurance has urged parents in the country to nurture their children in a manner that will motivate them to expressively grow with the zeal to operate their own businesses.

He enlightened that parents regular caning of their wards, result in them becoming timid with low self-esteem to have them reason well to come up with unique entrepreneurial initiatives which appears key to the country's development.

The Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship relayed this in an interview with Sompa News Eric Annan after his inaugural lecture held on Thursday, February 1, 2024, on the theme: "Entrepreneurship and Small Enterprises' Development Night Journey: The Road Monsters, Fairies, and Angels."

Eulogizing small enterprises to be Ghana's economical backbone should government accord it the requisite attention it requires, Prof. Agyapong recounted high taxations, wobbling start-up capitals, inadequate means of business expansion, and employee's stealing of inventory as factors affecting small enterprises from thriving in the country.

Prof. Daniel Agyapong further appealed on present and successive governments to enact a sole law for the administration of small enterprises in the country, unlike that which is being witnessed as governments come and go with their own ideology on how to run small scale enterprises in Ghana which in effect turns to affect entrepreneurs in the country.

Vice Chancellor for UCC, Prof  Johnson Nyarko Boampong at the inaugural lecture disclosed Professor Daniel Agyapong to have graduated five (5) PhD and ten (10) MPhil students either as a principal supervisor or a co-supervisor and has supervised several thesis from other universities in Ghana.

He again noted Prof. Agyapong to have authored or co-authored over seventy (70) publications focusing on conventional finance and small and medium size enterprise finance, having served as a reviewal of many international journals.

Source//Sompaonline.com/Eric Annan