Bigen Africa, a South African infrastructure development solution company, is making plans to improve the infrastructure capacity in West Africa while using Ghana as a hub.
The company plans to meet with Ghana’s Minister of Trade and Industry, Ms Hanna Tetteh, while in Accra to seek business opportunities and establish useful partnerships.
Established in 1971, Bigen Africa is renowned for its smarter business approach, interlocking world-class best-practices, development finance, engineering, and management consulting expertise to customise innovation. The company currently has 14 branches of its firm in South Africa as well as other offices in other parts of the continent.
Bigen Africa plans to expand its coast in West Africa through Ghana before proceeding to East Africa through Kenya and then move on to Central and North Africa by 2016.
In the past, the company has successfully delivered cost-effective, sustainable infrastructure projects in several African countries, including Botswana, Malawi, Angola and Nigeria.
On the company’s quest to improve the infrastructural level of the continent, Bigen Chairman, Dr. Iraj Abedian, noted that although Africa has the potential of unlocking economic growth, the continent remain back-pedalled as a result of its inability to place the right infrastructure that would enhance growth. He believes that if the right benefits were placed, it would benefit the poor.
Abedian however said that Africa, in the past ten years, has improved its economic base through massive infrastructure development and good corporate governance in the continent.
“The natural endowment of resources in Africa is enormous, but for the first time in the history of Africa, we see the continent developing through labour production. The very best of the continent has improved, while the right infrastructure has been put in place.”
“We cannot have communication without having communication infrastructure; we cannot have banking without having banking infrastructure. Within the past ten years, Africa, from a low base rate has improved infrastructure base dramatically”, he said.
Also, the Chief Operating Officer, Anton Boshoff, affirms the company’s vision to develop sustainable infrastructure to improve the quality of life of the communities where it work.
Boshoff said the company has a policy to partner with strong local companies and also promote the use of local labour and material in efforts to enhance access to services, poverty reduction and capacity building in the communities.
