Ghana: Ali Ibrahim Shares His Vision for the Future of Rabotec Ghana Limited

Ali Ibrahim, CEO and Managing Director at Rabotec Ghana Limited, shares his vision for the future of Rabotec in Ghana and the region.

“My dream for Rabotec in the next few years is to be able to match the big international companies locally in Ghana. When a foreign business comes in, they should not bring in foreign workers to supplement the local content, rather, it should be 100% local content business. Investors can come from anywhere, but in terms of infrastructure development, services, or anything else that is needed, we want to see Rabotec as a full player. We are not looking at competing with the companies that give us business, but to be able to build a complete turnkey project for a client like an American, European or Asian construction company who will come to us where we can have a complete sit down with the client, sign a deal, finish it, and hand over a key to that client. Local content sourced locally in Ghana and locally in the region. Currently, we place advertisements that we want to recruit supervisors from America to come here and work for us to train our people to develop our human resource base. We can get all this equipment and everything else, but if we do not have the right human resource base locally to run it, we still end up either underutilizing those things or we will destroy them. My aim is developing the local people, the local artisan, the local engineers, the local service providers. That way, we will be self-sufficient, and every box provided by the client we can tick off. Sometimes we might want a specific person with specific experience and we do not have it. That is another technology we are lacking in and that box cannot be ticked. My conclusion on this whole idea is that Ghanaians are capable of doing it. We have done it before, we are doing it now, and we will continue to do it. Asian, American, Australian companies see Ghanaians and are surprised at how we have gotten to this level. I stand on behalf of all of Ghana, no matter which industry the person is coming from, whoever invests and wants to come to Ghana, tell him that the CEO of Rabotec assures you that Ghanaians can do it locally for you and to your expectations”, says Ali Ibrahim.

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