Ghana needs a national manifesto

Retired Military Officer, Captain Joel Sowu, is suggesting the national development planning Commission (NDPC) be modeled like Ghana’s Electoral Commission so it can operate as an independent and apolitical institution.

Captain Sowu says the NDPC should be restructured well so it can piece together bits and pieces of the various party manifestos into a national agenda that all governments will follow irrespective of which party is in power.

He said such a system will get rid of the current system of “governments of the party, by the party and for the party,” which he blames for the winner-takes-all canker.

According to him, the NDPC, which will collate the party manifestos into a national agenda and policy document, must itself be given a proper national character in form.

He proposes that the resultant national manifesto or agenda must be segmented, well decentralised and also binding on all parties in power.