He said Nigeria's assets and populace put her in a vantage position to develop the economy of the landmass through industrialisation.
He was Guest Speaker at the 46th Annual General Meeting of the Manufacturers' Association of Nigeria (MAN) in Lagos.
Akufo-Addo asked that stock be taken of the overall approach structure, while estimating them against the present industrialisation, to decide whether there is have to develop the strategy activity.
He said the mainland's greatest test was her failure to change the plentiful common assets into open doors for the production of occupations and riches.
He encouraged arrangement producers on the requirement for right blend of approaches to completely uncover and build up the pioneering gifts that possess large amounts of Nigeria specifically, and Africa by and large.
The Ghanaian president censured what he depicted as the sluggish methodology of African nations in continually hurrying to the universal market offering items in their crude state as opposed to increasing the value of them.
Akufo-Addo: "It is obviously better to leave our assets undiscovered till our future ages ascend to the test and faithfully build up the best strategy blend that organizes industrialisation as the most helpful reason to drive the genuinely necessary financial improvement."
On the need to addinf incentive to crude materials, Akufo-Addo, who was spoken to at the AGM by a Senior Minister, Hon Yaw Osafo-Maafo, reviewed a circumstance where his nation and Cote D-Ivoire, deliver 60 for every penny or a greater amount of the world's yearly cocoa beans but then gain under six for each penny of the worldwide esteem chain exercises of the cocoa business.
He stated: "Ghana and Cote D'Ivoire, with their aggregate generation of 60 for each penny of worldwide cocoa beans, earned just about $6.0 billion of every 2016, except the chocolate business earned in the meantime about $120 billion."
He bothered the need to guarantee that the landmass has the ability to help powerful esteem expansion, to upgrading her income position in the universal market, bringing up that this calls for arrangement harmonization, coordination, and compelling cooperation between general society and private parts to drive successful and time-tried modern system to completely use Africa's characteristic assets.
The Ghanaian leadere lamented that Africa has a joined populace of 1.3 billion individuals and a Gross Domestic Product GDP of $2.2 trillion, while USA with a populace of around 328 million, has a GDP of about $18.3 trillion. He noticed that Africa is around four times that of the USA, yet, USA's GDP is around eight times that of Africa.
Akufo-Addo encouraged the mainland to start to exchange among ourselves, focusing on zones of near preferred standpoint. As indicated by him, the landmass must start to break the exchange hindrances among ourselves and frame collusions with the different nations' relationship of businesses and councils of trade
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