We have not looked hard enough for local investment. Time and again, we package our most attractive deals, provide all the data, roll out every courtesy, and hand them to foreigners while our own people are left on the sidelines. Ironically, Ghanaians with money are lured into scams like Menzgold, Pyram, or Tilapia schemes, or locked into instruments like bonds, and investment houses that have at times proven risky, as seen in the recent Domestic Debt Exchange Programme.