Accra (Greater Accra) 02 February 2002 - President John Agyekum Kufuor on Friday asked the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) to work out a planning scheme that would achieve results.
They should not undertake any sterile academic exercise, but be in regular consultations with the relevant ministries and institutions to come out with plans and suggestions that would be fruitful to the nation, President Kufuor said when he inaugurated the 27-member NDPC at the Castle, Osu.
He said any action without planning was erratic; therefore, the Commission should be practical in their deliberations to ensure that planning became the main tool for governance.
President Kufuor said to enable the Commission's monitoring activities to influence financial policies of government, it should be in constant consultations with the Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BOG) and the Minister of Finance (MOF).
He said it was a service institution, which they had been called upon to serve, and with the private sector as a critical factor, in the government's development plan it should be nurtured to grow to play its proper role because the sector had been neglected in the past.
