Dr Gabriel Gbiel Benarkuu, the President of the College of Community and Organisational Development (CCOD), a private technical university has urged President John Dramani Mahama to leverage on the Public Private Partnership Act (PPP Act) to boost infrastructure development for the 24-hour economy implementation.

He said the private sector anticipated the implementation of the 24-hour economy, saying advances in infrastructure development would greatly position the country for the realistic implementation of the policy for job creation and poverty reduction.

The PPP Act 2020, (Act 1039) provides for the development, implementation and regulation of public private partnership arrangements between contracting authorities and private parties for the provision of infrastructure and services, to establish institutional arrangements for the regulation of public private partnerships, and to provide for related matters.

As an engine of growth and development, Dr Benarkuu explained that the PPP Act had created an enhanced way where the government could explore the possibility of actively engaging the private sector and the civil society to contribute meaningfully to the nation's reconstructions.

Dr Benarkuu, also the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the MIHOSO International Foundation, a Sunyani-based Civil Society Organisation (CSO) gave the advice in an interview with Sompa FM in Sunyani on the expectation of the CSOs from the government.

He indicated that the PPP Act had a lot of strategies, underlining the need for the government through the Local Government Ministry to open-up and actively engage the private sector so that the CSOs and NGOs could directly link the government to investors and other development partners.

Sompaonline.com