“Business Is Spiritual”: How Prayer, Purpose and Grace Birthed Zoomlion — Dr Siaw Agyapong

From a truncated education and unanswered childhood dreams to building one of Africa’s largest indigenous business groups, the Chief Executive Officer of Jospong Group Limited, Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, has traced his extraordinary journey to one source: God.

Standing before a packed auditorium at the newly completed ultra-modern Church of Pentecost, Trassaco, which he and his family have donated, Dr Siaw Agyapong made it clear that the moment was not about personal accomplishment but divine intervention.

“This is not a speech of achievement; it is a testimony of grace,” he declared, his voice heavy with emotion and gratitude.

Flanked by his wife and family, Dr Agyepong said Ghana’s destiny is inseparable from God, insisting that faith must sit at the centre of leadership, governance and enterprise.

“Business is spiritual. Ghana belongs to God Almighty,” he stated, adding that the endurance of any enterprise depends on prayer, integrity and obedience to biblical principles.

Quoting Henry Parsons Crowell, founder of Quaker Oats, he reminded the congregation that “God must be the centre of business if it is to endure.”

“When business is conducted God’s way, integrity is preserved, trust is built, and the work becomes a testimony of faith in action,” he said.

Dr Siaw Agyepong recounted how his academic journey was cut short by hardship. Though he dreamed of becoming a pilot or marine engineer, financial constraints and a critically ill mother forced him to abandon his ambitions.

“I completed only technical education because that was all I could afford. My father told me there was no money, and that was the end of my schooling,” he recalled.

Yet, what looked like the end became the beginning.

“When I could not see my future, God saw it,” he said. “When I was ordinary, God planted extraordinary visions within me.”

Perhaps the most striking revelation of the Thanksgiving service was how Zoomlion Ghana Limited, now a cornerstone of Ghana’s waste management and environmental sanitation sector, was conceived.

“Setting up Zoomlion was through prayer,” Dr Agyepong revealed. “I went into my bedroom to pray, and the Lord brought the vision.”

He stressed that the company was not born out of boardroom strategies, negotiations or financial power.

“It wasn’t by strategy. It wasn’t by scale. It was grace,” he said.

According to him, God opened his eyes to see beyond his limitations and gave him direction when the path was unclear.

“God gave me the way, and He became the way,” he added.

Dr Agyepong described prayer as the invisible force behind every milestone in his business journey.

“God taught me that strategy without prayer is incomplete, and success without God is empty,” he said.

He noted that many of the defining decisions in his life and business were made on his knees.

“Decisions made on my knees have produced results no human wisdom can explain. Prayer has guarded my vision, opened doors and preserved me through storms.”

The Trassaco church building, he emphasised, is not a monument to wealth but a declaration of faith.

“This temple we are donating today is not an achievement; it is a testimony,” he said. “When God raises a man, it is for His glory.”

Dr Agyepong also acknowledged the role of successive Ghanaian leaders in supporting his vision, naming the late President Jerry John Rawlings, President John Agyekum Kufuor, the late President John Evans Atta Mills, former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and President John Dramani Mahama.

He credited President Mahama in particular for opening doors beyond Ghana’s borders.

“He introduced me to the President of Tanzania and then to the President of Kenya. I am deeply grateful for that guidance and support,” he said.

He also paid tribute to Chief of Staff Julius Debrah, describing him as “a brother” whose support has been invaluable.

As the Thanksgiving service drew to a close, one message stood out clearly: for Dr Joseph Siaw Agyapong, faith is not separate from business; it is its foundation.

“God is faithful. He gives dreams, and when God gives you dreams, they are never in vain,” he said.

In donating the Trassaco church, the Jospong Group founder has not only erected a physical structure but also reaffirmed a personal creed that prayer, purpose and grace remain the strongest pillars of enduring success.

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