Danny Boy, I know where your good heart is, but your head is lying to your good self.
Here are your wrong assumptions and mistakes, should I grade your opinion.
You think it'll take some hallowed leader and a political ... read full comment
Danny Boy, I know where your good heart is, but your head is lying to your good self.
Here are your wrong assumptions and mistakes, should I grade your opinion.
You think it'll take some hallowed leader and a political party to set Ghana on the right path. No. That will not work or may I say impossible.
There's a certain awareness and independent thought that need to attain the critical mass benchmark to produce good result. We're not there yet, and I don't know if we'll ever get there.
Remember our leaders are just a reflection of who we are as a people.
Your other biggest mistake can be found in your quote:
"For example, the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, with all the great minds on its engineering faculty, is capable of manufacturing some of our most basic scientific and agricultural products, but our incompetent politicians will rather purchase these goods from overseas and benefit illegally from the transactions."
What makes you think the mission of KNUST is innovation and manufacturing?
And why do you think there are "great" minds there? Any evidence to support your assertions?
This is the second time you've said something along those lines. Get serious and learn how things work.
painkiller 10 years ago
Well said. But remember too that KNUST's failures in "innovation and anufacturing" are also reflections of "who we are as a people." Individuals amongst us consistently demonstrate world class excellence in science, technolo ... read full comment
Well said. But remember too that KNUST's failures in "innovation and anufacturing" are also reflections of "who we are as a people." Individuals amongst us consistently demonstrate world class excellence in science, technology, business and what have you. But a fundamental problem we still have is weak or non-existent capacity to recognize, motivate, mobilize and coordinate these talents; to build the "critical mass" of competencies needed to make "good things" happen consistently. Good leaders (emphasis on the plural) could catalyze solutions to this problem, but we're desperately short of them because of who we have become as a people. Catch 22? Yes for now, but it does not have to be a permanent condition. We could break out of it if we discover why and how we came to be who we are as a psople. Creating the necessary awareness as you rightly pointed out should start from every home. From you and you; i and i.
painkiller 10 years ago
"manufacturing"
"manufacturing"
Daniel K. Pryce 10 years ago
Wow, what a brilliant explanation, my friend! Certainly, and as you rightly stated, our present condition should not be a permanent one. Like South Koreans, we can overcome the rut and build a better Ghana
Wow, what a brilliant explanation, my friend! Certainly, and as you rightly stated, our present condition should not be a permanent one. Like South Koreans, we can overcome the rut and build a better Ghana
Robert Laryea 10 years ago
Daniel, the problem with ghana is not leadership but the support mechanism of leadership. I am ndc but am fed up with the party. we spend all our time supporting misdirection in leadership. what ghana lacks is direction not l ... read full comment
Daniel, the problem with ghana is not leadership but the support mechanism of leadership. I am ndc but am fed up with the party. we spend all our time supporting misdirection in leadership. what ghana lacks is direction not leadership. lets be fair all the things you mentioned above was mentioned by nana addo in his campaign so why did'nt ghanians vote for him. put simply its because of people like you and me and the likes of ata kofi of cambridge. mahama's govt is skewed towards the the north. kuffour was skewed towards the ashantis and we critizised him so why are allowing mahama to do the same thing instead of selecting from all the
tribes in ghana. brothers this is what is happening in ghana now . nobody believes in the nation state anymore. they carving out the country with such frenzy that it is sad. i know a civil servant in ghana who have just bought a £400,000 house in london. at this rate there will not be any ghana tommorrow. thank you
G. K. Berko 10 years ago
Paa Kwesi, I take your pessimism for a challenge to us to make the necessary difference now. It will take not only the ideas we put out here directly, but also practical prodding of our Politicians to do the right thing.
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Paa Kwesi, I take your pessimism for a challenge to us to make the necessary difference now. It will take not only the ideas we put out here directly, but also practical prodding of our Politicians to do the right thing.
Our other big problem is seeking undeserving recognition for some greatness that we have nothing to show for. Our Academia would like us to match them at par with their peers outside but fail to impart the most relevant lesson to their students, which is to encourage them to add to the value of the Nation rather than take from her.
All our Education is meaningless if we cannot use it to improve not only ourselves individually but also the Nation's Development.
As the Nation retrogresses, there goes her ability to find the financial resources to pay for even the Salaries and other benefits of the very Professors who teach in the Schools.
We need to know the real worth of Education which goes beyond finding a job that puts cash in one's pocket. Our Varsities must assess their own contribution to our failures. If for decades on end, not a single research done by their students has added to our quality of life, then there is something very wrong with the Educational process. At least, the knowledgeable students could do more to encourage better ways of farming, preserving our Environment, and resuscitating our factories.
We now only find newly graduated Varsity products rush to seek for Political positions or top Offices in Agencies only to device means to milk the State further.
So, we must confront the problems at all fronts, beginning with Education.
Paa Kwesi, leadership embodies the concentrated mass of drive that the Nation could bring to bear on our mission. If the leadership sucks, we would not make a step forward. And others on the fringes would capitalize on that to ignore the needs of the Nation and fellow Citizens and think only of enriching themselves.
Leadership therefore counts a lot. As much Authority as we repose in our President, for example, if we elect the right leader with all the qualities listed by Daniel, we would make a good start to correct the wrongs. So, I think you are underrating the significance of good leadership.
Meanwhile, I acknowledge that the individual Citizens need to do soul-searching to exorcise our demons and hunt for the decimation of corruption from all crevices among us. The massive loans we are piling on have not produced anything substantial to justify them. They are going attract humongous interests in a short time and we would be back to HIPC. This time around, we would not qualify for any forgiveness of debt.
This is what the current Administration must understand and be guided by to promptly escalate productivity and profitable utilization of the Loans.
You may have to hope for the better, Paa Kwesi, even as you see no light around you. We may still have a little distance to the end of the tunnel, and there could be some little light beyond. Never give up! Let us all put our mind to it.
Long Live Ghana!!!
Daniel K. Pryce 10 years ago
Thanks, Mr. Berko. Indeed, we must begin this journey of transformation with the election of a good leader, one who cares about the whole instead of his immediate relatives and friends. Because our societies have not learned ... read full comment
Thanks, Mr. Berko. Indeed, we must begin this journey of transformation with the election of a good leader, one who cares about the whole instead of his immediate relatives and friends. Because our societies have not learned to devolve power to institutions, almost everything flows from the top, which is the presidency.
As such, a selfish president will oversee nothing but a cabal of self-seeking politicians, which means that the middle class would continue to retrogress. This reminds me of the adage: "starvation in the midst of plenty."
We do have great minds in Ghana, and KNUST does have great minds on its engineering faculty, but these guys cannot convert their knowledge and brilliance to good use, unless they receive support from those with the power of the purse, and the power to devolve authority.
John Daniels( kliib-KNUST) 10 years ago
Mr. Pryce,
I am quite surprised at the lack of growth in your understanding of what constitutes REAL DYNAMIC PROGRESSION of the current Ghanaian Society(GS) as opposed to an expected "textbook" progression. Please be very ob ... read full comment
Mr. Pryce,
I am quite surprised at the lack of growth in your understanding of what constitutes REAL DYNAMIC PROGRESSION of the current Ghanaian Society(GS) as opposed to an expected "textbook" progression. Please be very objective in your thinking. You see one of the problems we have today in Ghana is perception relative to our "living reality". In short people tend not to compare what they are doing, what they deserve based on what they have done but rather what SOMEONE preferably the Govt shd DO for them.
Tell me where in the so called advance countries can you borrow $500.00 , plant an acre of casaava ( or any business that requires actual hardwork/mindwork), harvest and payback in 15 months with a profit margin of 75-95%?
Yes that is why the Chinese, the Lebanese, Americans, Malaysians etc etc are flocking to Ghana.
Basically if you want to actually work
and earn a living, Ghana is for you. But if you are "princely Ghanaian" who is waiting for some Leader to come and provide you with free SHS, or free toilets, free electricity, free water then please you are welcome. The rest of us have some earning to make. Oh by the way Mr. Pryce, do you have any advice on how to buy one of the cheap houses in the US as a long-term investment. I sure will be happy if you could help me. No I have absolutely no time or energy to join some totally useless facebook delusional mirror-discussions.
Daniel K. Pryce 10 years ago
I understand your first point, but if you revisit my piece, you'll discover that I addressed that concern.
If you argue that we need "a certain awareness and independent benchmark to produce good result," then I believe t ... read full comment
I understand your first point, but if you revisit my piece, you'll discover that I addressed that concern.
If you argue that we need "a certain awareness and independent benchmark to produce good result," then I believe that we can only reach this benchmark through public education of the voters, which I discussed in the very paragraph of my article.
Collectively changing the minds of a people cannot happen overnight, but I also refuse to believe that Africans are a cursed people who cannot devise solutions to their own problems without assistance from the white man!
While it will not take one day, or even one year, to convince people to vote for the best candidate, rather than Wofa Yaw next door, we must begin somewhere and hope that, with time, real change will take place in our body politic. Good example? Al Gore. This guy would have avoided the Florida hanging-chads brouhaha had he won in his own state of Tennessee in 2000. The American people get it, Paa Kwesi!
Your second point. Think about the number of people you started school with -- from primary school to secondary school to the university. It's more like a pyramid, right? In other words, no one gets to the engineering department of KNUST ON MERIT unless he's smarter than many of his peers and has done some serious academic work in secondary school. More importantly, no one graduates with a degree in engineering from KNUST unless he has done some serious knowledge-imbibing on campus for a few years. In other words, this capacity alone confers "brilliance" on those who are able to attain this goal.
No one gets an engineering degree from KNUST with the intention of sitting on his derriere after graduation. These are serious, motivated guys with good intentions, but with our society not investing in technology, these guys are unable to properly put their education to good use.
Paa Kwesi Mintah, you shockingly see little value in our own KNUST, because your mind has been trained to accept that nothing good can come out of Ghana! Very sad, indeed.
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago
Nkrumah killed tribalism.
JJ ensured it never resurfaced.
Then on the scene came Kufuor and tribalism wake up with a bang.
Mills tried to put it back to the grave.
But woe to Ghana with the emergence of Nana Addo as leade ... read full comment
Nkrumah killed tribalism.
JJ ensured it never resurfaced.
Then on the scene came Kufuor and tribalism wake up with a bang.
Mills tried to put it back to the grave.
But woe to Ghana with the emergence of Nana Addo as leader of NPP.
With Nana saw the end of nationalism with his declaration of all-die-be-die..
Now Nana is leading the tribal polarisation with his Yen Akan Fuo edict to to Ashanti/Akyem youth.
To Nana, either he rules Ghana or Ghana will become ungovernable
Nana, Patron of the Boko Haram/ Al-Shabab Cell in Ghana.
GIRLS SP 10 years ago
Pryce! you dirty hypocrite EWE, with you EWE people in our midst in Ghana, of course nothing good can ever come out of Ghana.
Pryce! you just check yourself as a primitive, tribal, selfish and a LAZY EWE who is always agai ... read full comment
Pryce! you dirty hypocrite EWE, with you EWE people in our midst in Ghana, of course nothing good can ever come out of Ghana.
Pryce! you just check yourself as a primitive, tribal, selfish and a LAZY EWE who is always against good things, besides not contribute any quota but rather destroying and at the same time stealing the good things in the country.
Do you think with such a primitive behaviour of you EWEs any good thing can come out of the country?
FUCK YOU!!!
G. K. Berko 10 years ago
GIRLS SP, please, for Christ's sake, quit this kind of personal and ethnic attacks. That is the route we all must unarguably avoid, if we really want our Nation to move on and up.
What you have demonstrated here depicts g ... read full comment
GIRLS SP, please, for Christ's sake, quit this kind of personal and ethnic attacks. That is the route we all must unarguably avoid, if we really want our Nation to move on and up.
What you have demonstrated here depicts gross bigotry against EWES and Ghana does not need that now. We have seen enough of this courtship for inter-ethnic violence in the Country. If we truly love the Country, we should concentrate on how to solve our Economic woes and the Politics would be positively impacted by it.
Meanwhile, whatever paranoia we harbor for other groups in the Country would be best mitigated with better education and moral decency. We cannot let our anger, whichever way it came to be ignited in us, overwhelm our brains to hamper us from realizing what is best for the Nation.
Please, stop attacking folks like this and help deal with the real problems afflicting our folks. Besides, however lowly you think of Ewes, this Article of Mr. Pryce's does not call for his bashing at all. You could have used the time and energy you utilized in insulting him and Ewes for analyzing what he wrote about, and contributed your ideas to move us all forward.
At least, we ought to resume building a better Nation from some point in time. We need to open up our minds to absorb any bitterness in the past to help us rebuild the Nation for us all and our posterity.
I am sure you can calm yourself down and let the better part of you take charge to be more productive.
Please, don't take this admonishment for some naive observation. I deliberately set it out in this simple manner. It is the cost of encouraging the opposite that spurred me on to be this simple and unambiguous. I am not an Ewe, or a NDC, or CPP or PPP member for that matter but a concerned patriotic Ghanaian, just as I hope you are. So, you can trust my objectivity here. If we do not stop the ethnic insults now, we will surely land our Nation in a regrettable state of violence soon. May the Lord help you find Peace within yourself!
Long Live Ghana!!!
painkiller 10 years ago
Is that the best contribution you can make to this otherwise constructive discussion started by Paa Kwesi Mintah? Stop this tribalistic bullshit and get a real life! What the kpakpo shitor is your problem?
Is that the best contribution you can make to this otherwise constructive discussion started by Paa Kwesi Mintah? Stop this tribalistic bullshit and get a real life! What the kpakpo shitor is your problem?
TROUBLE-MAKER 10 years ago
I take it the Akan government under the leadership of the serial shameless THIEF,Kuffor paved the entire streets of this country with GOLD,and the Ewes who don`t like good things came to remove them,huh?
Mr.Pryce did not att ... read full comment
I take it the Akan government under the leadership of the serial shameless THIEF,Kuffor paved the entire streets of this country with GOLD,and the Ewes who don`t like good things came to remove them,huh?
Mr.Pryce did not attack any tribe in his article or accused anyone other than what we should do as a nation and people to elect a selfless leader.
Why insult him and his tribe?
PRINCE 10 years ago
TROUBLE-MAKER! YOUR MOTHER FUCKER EWE BROTHER PRYCE HAS ATTACKED AKAN TRIBES ON UNCOUNTERBLE TIMES. GO AND READ SOME OF HIS PREVIOUS PIECES POSTED TO GHANAWEB. PRIMITIVE TROKOSI FOOLS!!!
TROUBLE-MAKER! YOUR MOTHER FUCKER EWE BROTHER PRYCE HAS ATTACKED AKAN TRIBES ON UNCOUNTERBLE TIMES. GO AND READ SOME OF HIS PREVIOUS PIECES POSTED TO GHANAWEB. PRIMITIVE TROKOSI FOOLS!!!
Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago
Idiot!!! The Ewes are primitive which is why they still kill fellow human beings to bury their dead village heads even in this 21st century.
Idiot!!! The Ewes are primitive which is why they still kill fellow human beings to bury their dead village heads even in this 21st century.
TROUBLE-MAKER 10 years ago
The right spelling is UNCOUNTABLE and NOT "UNCOUNTERBLE".
When you have finished learning how to spell peoperly then you can come back to insult me more.
The right spelling is UNCOUNTABLE and NOT "UNCOUNTERBLE".
When you have finished learning how to spell peoperly then you can come back to insult me more.
Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago
Look Trouble-Maker, that idiot is yet to divorce himself from that animal shit mentality which blinds them to think they are the most important ethnic group in Africa!!! I am even wondering whether they are up to half the Hau ... read full comment
Look Trouble-Maker, that idiot is yet to divorce himself from that animal shit mentality which blinds them to think they are the most important ethnic group in Africa!!! I am even wondering whether they are up to half the Hausa, Ibo or Yoruba ethnic groups. It is unfortunate to note that people who feed on animal shit as a delicacy often end up with rotten minds.
TROUBLE-MAKER 10 years ago
"It is unfortunate to note that people who feed on animal shit as a delicacy often end up with rotten minds."
You are right,Xebieso.Those animal SHITS are contaminated and the result is what we are seeing.
"It is unfortunate to note that people who feed on animal shit as a delicacy often end up with rotten minds."
You are right,Xebieso.Those animal SHITS are contaminated and the result is what we are seeing.
Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago
Bastard upon bastard. I am proud to be an Ewe and NEVER an Akan. What the hell must be wrong with you swines? Can you please just mention for once the good things destroyed and stolen by Ewes in your Ghana? Do you think the E ... read full comment
Bastard upon bastard. I am proud to be an Ewe and NEVER an Akan. What the hell must be wrong with you swines? Can you please just mention for once the good things destroyed and stolen by Ewes in your Ghana? Do you think the Ewes cannot survive without being part of your Ghana?
Yes, the Ewes are lazy and selfish which is why you work on your farms to feed the Ewes, you fish in your dirty rivers to feed the Ewes, and because the Ewes are primitive that's why in this 21st century they still kill fellow human beings to bury their dead village heads!!!!
The Ewes are selfish and lazy which is why they rape giant she-apes in your forest!!!!!
Daniel K. Pryce 10 years ago
Very good question! A friend and I discussed this issue just last night.
Political parties are actually the problem. Political parties provide a platform for electing our presidents, but this method of selection means tha ... read full comment
Very good question! A friend and I discussed this issue just last night.
Political parties are actually the problem. Political parties provide a platform for electing our presidents, but this method of selection means that we're unlikely to have the best at the helm of national affairs. Why? Because political parties represent the worst in cronyism and nepotism. They are also more like financial repositories for the rich!
For instance, a brilliant man cannot become president unless he rises through the party ranks to become flag-bearer, a near-impossibility in our type of political environment. In fact, the older guys who typically have the resources to fund these political parties simply would not permit the brilliant and forward-looking guys to assume leadership roles, because the rich see these political parties as "investments." In other words, they'd be looking to makes some "profit" when their own guy gets elected.
Do you see why we are not making progress? It's more about what individuals in Ghana expect to get out of politics, unlike in the more developed countries, where people run for office because they generally truly care about making a difference.
Had Bill Clinton run for office in Ghana, he would have had a zero chance of getting elected! Yet, his administration created the right tools for economic growth, and America experienced great prosperity when Clinton was president. As Clinton likes to refer to himself, a man from Arkansas, with few political connections at the national stage, could only become president in a great country like America!
Daniel K. Pryce 10 years ago
"In other words, they'd be looking to MAKE some "profit" when their own guy gets elected."
"In other words, they'd be looking to MAKE some "profit" when their own guy gets elected."
Joni 10 years ago
I am sure the good people of Ghana will very much want to choose the best leader - one who can improve the lot of ALL Ghanaians! But the fact is that they cannot for the following reasons:
1. The people can only choose amo ... read full comment
I am sure the good people of Ghana will very much want to choose the best leader - one who can improve the lot of ALL Ghanaians! But the fact is that they cannot for the following reasons:
1. The people can only choose among those candidates that are presented to them by the political parties as well as the independent candidates who are able to present themselves. In practice, the candidates presented by the parties are not necessarily the best people to rule Ghana. The independent candidates also present themselves thinking they are the best to lead us but they may not be.
2. The present party structures will make sure that the best candidates are not elected at the primaries. Only those with money and influence (and perhaps a lot of noise) get selected at the party primaries. These are almost always not the best "natural leaders". Just look at those people we have had in the Fourth Republic. None of them really passes muster.
3. The very best leadership material out there in the country are likely not to take part in party politics. These persons may not belong to any parties and may not even be interested in politics. This leaves the ground open for people of less quality like Akufo-Addo or Mahama.
4. Quality leaders (people with the genes to lead and succeed in doing so) are rarities in every society. If we are not lucky to get someone like that willing to submit himself or herself to be elected, then Ghanaians cannot choose a "good leader" no matter how much they try to.
5. The only way Ghanaians can choose a "good leader" is for them to go out into the country and find such a person and ask him or her to lead them. But that is an impracticable thing to do.
So in 2016, we are still not going to get a good leader to choose from among the less good ones unless we are extremely lucky that such a person comes along. I don't see that happening. It will still be the same old mess again with group and personal interests coalescing around persons who can promote such interests which may not be the interests of the society at large. Look at how some people are already clamoring for Akufo-Addo to stand again! It is just because those people have certain personal interests to follow.
As far as leadership is concerned, we are doomed unless we get a lucky break. The people cannot be blamed for the choices the make when the material available is so bad - like Mahama and Akufo-Addo!!!
painkiller 10 years ago
Hi, where are you based?
Hi, where are you based?
Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago
Mr. Painkiller, thanks for your very candid views. I can bet here that I'm a good material to lead Ghana for better.
Mr. Painkiller, thanks for your very candid views. I can bet here that I'm a good material to lead Ghana for better.
Daniel K. Pryce 10 years ago
Thanks, Joni. In fact, your comments mirror the discussion I had with a friend just last night. Sadly, the political parties control who ascends to the most important political throne -- the presidency -- but we can change th ... read full comment
Thanks, Joni. In fact, your comments mirror the discussion I had with a friend just last night. Sadly, the political parties control who ascends to the most important political throne -- the presidency -- but we can change the predictable patterns of voting by educating the voters to look beyond party affiliation. Yes, it can be done -- but it will take years to perfect.
Joni 10 years ago
Well, under the circumstances, that may be the only thing that the electorate can make a choice on. That is to say if they are presented with Mahama vrs Akufo-Addo as the most probable winners in an election, NDC partisans (a ... read full comment
Well, under the circumstances, that may be the only thing that the electorate can make a choice on. That is to say if they are presented with Mahama vrs Akufo-Addo as the most probable winners in an election, NDC partisans (and in particular Ewes) will have the courage to see that Akufo-Addo will be a more effective president than Mahama and vote for Akufo-Addo. In the same way, NPP diehards (Asantes and Akyems) should be able to see that Mahama would make a better president than Akufo-Addo and go against their most natural convictions and vote for Mahama rather than Akufo-Addo. As you rightly said, this will take years to perfect.
But even given this scenario, it will still not make Ghanaians be able to choose the best persons that should rule them because neither Mahama nor Akufo-Addo is such a person!!! That is why we are doomed unless someone like Nkrumah comes along and the people of Ghana see the light to choose him!!! That is a tall order!
Daniel K. Pryce 10 years ago
Joni, you certainly understand this problem more than many of us do! Thanks for sharing your wonderful ideas. As Pelicles has stated elsewhere, tribalism makes it hard for us to look beyond party affiliation to vote for bette ... read full comment
Joni, you certainly understand this problem more than many of us do! Thanks for sharing your wonderful ideas. As Pelicles has stated elsewhere, tribalism makes it hard for us to look beyond party affiliation to vote for better candidates. But we must begin the discussion that'll change everything, and then begin to educate the voters to see beyond what's next door to what's down the road. It'll take years, but we must change Ghanaian society from what it is presently.
Tekonline.org 10 years ago
You wrote:
"...1. The people can only choose among those candidates that are presented to them by the political parties as well as the independent candidates who are able to present themselves. In practice, the candidates pr ... read full comment
You wrote:
"...1. The people can only choose among those candidates that are presented to them by the political parties as well as the independent candidates who are able to present themselves. In practice, the candidates presented by the parties are not necessarily the best people to rule Ghana. The independent candidates also present themselves thinking they are the best to lead us but they may not be..."
You are right on your money! The party kingmakers, made up of the inner circle of founders and financiers, ARE the ones that hold the key to Ghana's future. The masses only come in after the flagbearers have been imposed on them.
kk 10 years ago
Our system of choosing leaders through the political parties may not be the ideal, but unfortunately, that is what we have, that is the practice of democracy we have come to endorse. Indeed, our political systems, just as our ... read full comment
Our system of choosing leaders through the political parties may not be the ideal, but unfortunately, that is what we have, that is the practice of democracy we have come to endorse. Indeed, our political systems, just as our very human nature, will always be fraught with imperfections. The challenge I see however, is not so much with the process of selecting our leaders through the political parties as it is with the proclivity for otherwise good leadership material to sit on the fence and expect other people to do it right. Fighting evil in order to bring in good is no easy job. It is very hard work. My point it that, no matter how genuine and altruistic an individual potential leader maybe, he or she should not expect the leadership role to be thrust upon him/her on a silver platter. The good leader must be genuinely interested in society's well being, and must be incensed with the ills he or she sees around him/her, and must be prepared to fight for that which is good. A person who truly cares about society's well being cannot sit on the fence while evil triumphs around him. An aspiring leader of good intensions must get involved with the process of changing society for the good by joining a political party of his choice or finding men and women of like minds to start their own party if they cannot identify with any of the existing parties. After all, the ideology and character of a Political party is only a reflection of the individuals who constitute the party's leadership. It is important for the one who wants to lead not to sit on the fence but get involved and help shape the thinking/ideology and character of the party of his/her choice towards the ideals he/she upholds. Good leadership within the party should be demonstrated through the contest of ideas and character. This is where we often fail, because men and women with the best ideas or characters do not always win within their parties, but that should not discourage the true nation builders to throw in the towel. After all the good book says no one can enter into a strongman's house and tale spoil of his goods and possessions unless he first overpowers the strongman and binds him before he can take spoil of his possessions. Greedy and selfish individuals who enter politics with the objective of eradicating the poverty in their own pockets and in those of their close families and cronies will not easily give up power but with misinformation and craftiness, they will do all that it takes to perpetuate themselves in power. It behoves men of good intent therefore to spare no stone unturned to educate the masses of our people on what qualities we should look out for in our leaders as Mr Pryce has sought to do in this article. We need to use every means at our disposal to debunk the propaganda and ethnocentric connotations that have been exploited by politician to keep out people in the dark so as to continue with their insensitive exploitation of the poor and unsophisticated in thought. Our educational system obviously is not producing sufficiently independent thinkers, hence even our educated class are not engaging in the contest of ideas that advances a nation but rather are given to propaganda based on tribalism and ethnic hatred which doesn't necessarily absolve us of the economic hardships engendered by the incompetent leaders we are coerced to select. Good men should not expect to be loved by all, because the people who benefit from the corrupt status-quo will not be enthused with their interventions. Therefore it takes courage and determination to confront evil and bring about change. The challenge is, 'Where are the brave men of character who will not only fight corruption to impose another form of corruption and suffering, but be examples of good and progressive leadership that will spur this country on to prosperity and unity'
Paa Kwesi Mintah 10 years ago
Danny Boy, I know where your good heart is, but your head is lying to your good self.
Here are your wrong assumptions and mistakes, should I grade your opinion.
You think it'll take some hallowed leader and a politica ... read full comment
Danny Boy, I know where your good heart is, but your head is lying to your good self.
Here are your wrong assumptions and mistakes, should I grade your opinion.
You think it'll take some hallowed leader and a political party to set Ghana on the right path. No. That will not work or may I say impossible.
There's a certain awareness and independent thought that need to attain the critical mass benchmark to produce good result. We're not there yet, and I don't know if we'll ever get there.
Remember our leaders are just a reflection of who we are as a people.
Your other biggest mistake can be found in your quote:
"For example, the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, with all the great minds on its engineering faculty, is capable of manufacturing some of our most basic scientific and agricultural products, but our incompetent politicians will rather purchase these goods from overseas and benefit illegally from the transactions."
What makes you think the mission of KNUST is innovation and manufacturing?
And why do you think there are "great" minds there? Any evidence to support your assertions?
This is the second time you've said something along those lines. Get serious and learn how things work.
Kobena 10 years ago
Paa Kwesi,
Loads of equipment, pharmaceutical and agricultural products have been researched and produced at UST, and Legon too, in the past. The problem has been a forward thinking government that will move for their manufa ... read full comment
Paa Kwesi,
Loads of equipment, pharmaceutical and agricultural products have been researched and produced at UST, and Legon too, in the past. The problem has been a forward thinking government that will move for their manufacture, for the good of the whole country.
Do you know that all the traffic lights used at the UST campus were designed and manufactured with local materials at the university, including the bulbs? Some of them were actually installed in Kumasi at one point. When the time came to install more in Kumasi and other regional capitals, they were imported because obviously there was not much by way of create, loot and share in a local deal.
The solar street lights at Legon and UST were all manufactured at the Physics Departments of the two universities. Ghanaians built railway carriages at 'Location' in Sekondi, and so were speed boats at Ghana Boatyards.
The problem is we have been saddled with rubbish leadership. With the right kind of leadership, we can move forward as a nation.
Have you ever heard of Biafra's "Ogunigbe?" I once shared an office with one of the physicists who were challenged by Ojukwu to produce it. He gave them six months to do it or he would have them all court marshalled and shot. They did it in four months! It was a most devastating weapon, as several Ibo novelists have attested to it. Had there not been internal wrangling among the leaders, the course of the war would have been very different because of that one local bomb.
What we need in Ghana is the right leadership!
Tekonline.org 10 years ago
Good reminiscence, Kobby. You wrote:
"...Do you know that all the traffic lights used at the UST campus were designed and manufactured with local materials at the university, including the bulbs? Some of them were actuall ... read full comment
Good reminiscence, Kobby. You wrote:
"...Do you know that all the traffic lights used at the UST campus were designed and manufactured with local materials at the university, including the bulbs? Some of them were actually installed in Kumasi at one point..."
In fact, at that time (late 70's or early 80's) the ENTIRE country had those KNUST-made traffic light systems!
But as I have explained elsewhere, it is NOT the mandate of universities to operate factories and manufacture goods. The prime purpose, especially for UNDERGRADUATE education, is to equip the student with the basic facts in foundational subjects, infuse them with scientific and technological principles, and provide them essential practical training, such that the student would graduate, fully prepared to invent, innovate, fabricate, and pursue entrepreneural ventures, as well as serving the nation in various capacities as engineers.
Having said that, the story behind that traffic-lights story is quite intriguing.
As you know, year after year, KNUST students churn out their mini-discoveries and inventions by way of theses research. These theses reports are shelved in the university library repository.
One day, Professor Chapman, an erstwhile American lecturer at the School of Engineering, went through a set of the shelved theses reports and picked one: a microprocessor-based circuit design for traffic light systems. From what I heard, the design was way ahead of its time, even by western standards, employing microprocessor-based electronic counters for signal timing.
Now pay attention here: using the engineering faculty SUPPORT STAFF of TECHNICIANS, traffic light prototypes were fabricated, and later, after many tests and enhancements, the device was deployed countrywide.
I wonder how many other cool inventions are hidden in the thesis repository!
Kobena 10 years ago
Techonline,
There are numerous such projects at UST. The original traffic light research and design was carried out by the late Prof Bamfo-Kwakye with some students in the late 19860s early 70s. They also designed a wooden o ... read full comment
Techonline,
There are numerous such projects at UST. The original traffic light research and design was carried out by the late Prof Bamfo-Kwakye with some students in the late 19860s early 70s. They also designed a wooden organ that played like any electronic organ built anywhere in the world.
Prof Dziwornooh at the Physics Department built a wooden fridge which he used in his Katchito Bar in Kumasi, for years. One of my seniors created engine oil form copra oil. I know someone who researched into refractory clay using clay that is available in several parts of the Ashanti Region.
There were numerous other inventions in Science, Engineering Agriculture, Art, Pharmacy , etc. You are right, the universities do not have the wherewithal to produce these on large scale. It is for the state to encourage private enterprenuers to do that. That is what we lack!
' and Jesus wept ' 10 years ago
No, not now. Cause there's not a single person living now in my Ghana who has this nation and its people at heart. They're all vampires seeking for warm blood to suck. Most of them either have scores to settle or deepen the a ... read full comment
No, not now. Cause there's not a single person living now in my Ghana who has this nation and its people at heart. They're all vampires seeking for warm blood to suck. Most of them either have scores to settle or deepen the already ethnic problems we have found ourselves in. Others just come and loot the wealth of the nation and leave the poor citizens worse off. There are those who think without them the sun will not rise from the east and set in the west. Such people will move heaven and earth to rain mayhem in the land if somebody else other than them are behind the steering wheel. Fact of the matter is, they don't do any better but rather leave the seat of government worse than they found it. Selfless leaders in Ghana? Not in our time. Not anyone in the likeness of Kwame Nkrumah.
Daniel K. Pryce 10 years ago
Very, very good analysis of the Ghanaian problem! But what I am calling for is the motivation to move past this painful past and to create a better society. I believe we can do it, even if it takes years.
Very, very good analysis of the Ghanaian problem! But what I am calling for is the motivation to move past this painful past and to create a better society. I believe we can do it, even if it takes years.
' and Jesus wept ' 10 years ago
Yes. And it saddens me to see people who put themselves in leadership positions rape this country in such callous and disgraceful manner. We may get somebody but people like Nkrumah's caliber are rare breed and don't show up ... read full comment
Yes. And it saddens me to see people who put themselves in leadership positions rape this country in such callous and disgraceful manner. We may get somebody but people like Nkrumah's caliber are rare breed and don't show up but once in blue moon. Despite what others think about Nkrumah, he will beat any Danquah, Busia, Akufo-Addo, in his time or Kufuor, Rawlings or anybody, you name it hands down if he were to stand for election today. I have no doubt about that at all.
Speedy Gonzalez 10 years ago
Please do not confuse yourself and everybody else.You made mention of advanced countries,with all due respect, you should agree with me that we are not yet at the advance level. Mind you, You crawl before you walk.These advan ... read full comment
Please do not confuse yourself and everybody else.You made mention of advanced countries,with all due respect, you should agree with me that we are not yet at the advance level. Mind you, You crawl before you walk.These advanced countries have all gone through this rough stages,you climb the ladder from the bottom to the top and not the other way round.You are confusing yourself and people who does not know otherwise.Ghana is doing well,we are on a learning curve and not doing badly at all.With time,we will come to appreciate what our democratic leaders have done.It is a hard work and in a country like Ghana where everything is a priority,that makes it even harder.Let us all therefore support our country to progress rather being negative and undermining the effort of others who are knuckling down.
Daniel K. Pryce 10 years ago
Please don't support mediocrity. When are we going to stop "breastfeeding" and start eating real food, in a proverbial sense? John Mahama was at CNN HQ the other day and he rightly reminded the foreign press to stop focusing ... read full comment
Please don't support mediocrity. When are we going to stop "breastfeeding" and start eating real food, in a proverbial sense? John Mahama was at CNN HQ the other day and he rightly reminded the foreign press to stop focusing on problems in Africa, but rather on the good things that we are trying to achieve. This tells me that Mahama has his nation's wellbeing at heart. What he needs to do, then, is transform all that knowledge into practical use: we need to invest in science and technology, if we are to move forward as a nation. We cannot continue to offer the same easy excuse that we are going through a learning process!
G. K. Berko 10 years ago
I cannot agree more with most of what Mr. Pryce has said for our salvation in this Article. My only astonishment with it is how Mr. Pryce has come around to recommend almost all the Economic vectors that Nkrumah pursued, giv ... read full comment
I cannot agree more with most of what Mr. Pryce has said for our salvation in this Article. My only astonishment with it is how Mr. Pryce has come around to recommend almost all the Economic vectors that Nkrumah pursued, given that Mr. Pryce has shown his loathing for the man.
Should we then say that we all could do as Mr. Pryce has done? That is, if we hate the Duike we could still give it credit for its speed. Surely, Nkrumah's politics turned sour, less democratic, but we should not take his Economic efforts away from him.
The sleuth of Industries and infrastructural developments he embarked upon and accomplished under a decade before his overthrow was all for the same end as Mr. Pryce showed. We needed and still need to be self-reliant in the things we simply can be. That would free much of our Foreign earnings to import only what we cannot make here at home, and improve our employment situation, too.
Daniel K. Pryce 10 years ago
Mr. Berko,
I do not loath Nkrumah! As far as I am concerned, he was the best man to have ever ruled Ghana. However, every leader has his weaknesses, and Nkrumah certainly had his. The two articles I had penned about Nkruma ... read full comment
Mr. Berko,
I do not loath Nkrumah! As far as I am concerned, he was the best man to have ever ruled Ghana. However, every leader has his weaknesses, and Nkrumah certainly had his. The two articles I had penned about Nkrumah were specifically about how he used Christian symbolism to enhance his own image.
Sadly, Nkrumah's minions began comparing the man to Jesus Christ, a veritable sacrilege to those of us who are practicing Christians, yet Nkrumah did not rebuke them or tell them to stop elevating him to that godlike status.
In other words, my criticism of Nkrumah was very specific, but I understand why some were, and still are, annoyed about my Nkrumah articles.
LONTO-BOY 10 years ago
Danny boy, your sentiments are well and truly appreciated but your concerns are misdirected. Ghana's problem is not necessarily the absence of 'individuality' of visionary and pragmatic leadership. Of course, Ghana has indivi ... read full comment
Danny boy, your sentiments are well and truly appreciated but your concerns are misdirected. Ghana's problem is not necessarily the absence of 'individuality' of visionary and pragmatic leadership. Of course, Ghana has individuals with good leadership characteristics, but the causes of Ghana's problems are long, varied and complex. There are the challenges of tribalism/regional politics, uneducated and ignorant mass, corruption and criminality, incompetence of some elected politicians, and our failing institutions.
Certainly, Ghana's politics is not just a matter of competing political ideas/policies, it's also a matter of tribalism. Tribalism is indeed a powerful driving force in Ghana's politics. This reflects in our party membership and how we vote. Often, our politicians exploit our tribal loyalty to advance their personal gains, parochial interests, patronage and cronyism. Of course, Tribal/Regional politics happens all over the world, even in the USA and UK. Yes, in the UK there's 'Regional flavour' to its politics. The Labour party relies on North of England, Scotland and Wales for the core its votes, while the Tory/Conservative party rely mostly on South East of England. However, the difference between Ghana and the UK politics lies in the level of education/enlightenment of voters, and workable institutions. For example, whereas in UK, young mothers/women, irrespective of their party loyalty will vote for a party with good Child Care Benefit policy, in Ghana most of our women tend to vote for the 'tall and handsome' candidate. How stupid can we get?
Do Ghanaian voters have better understanding of NDC, NPP, PPP or CPP's manifestos, policies and ideas that have the potential to transform our nation? Do Ghanaian voters be it NDC or NPP supporters realise when their Government/Party is running the country into the ground? Why do Ghanaian voters keep voting for the same old tired brains, ineffective and incompetent politicians? For lack of education and enlightenment, our ignorance, superficiality and tribal loyalty have taken hold on our voting system.
Part of Ghana's problem is the failings of our institutions. Essentially, the democratic and civil institutions that should serve as 'connecting threads' in our society have failed. For example, the country's media don't analyse Party manifestos and Government policies, let alone shape them. So, how can the media educate the electorate when they fail to understand manifestos and policies? There's little wonder as a nation we end up with incompetent and ineffectual Governments.
Daniel K. Pryce 10 years ago
Thanks for your critique. However, if you re-assess the contents of my piece, you'll find that the sort of mental revolution I am calling for would address many of your concerns, including the pervasive ethnocentric culture t ... read full comment
Thanks for your critique. However, if you re-assess the contents of my piece, you'll find that the sort of mental revolution I am calling for would address many of your concerns, including the pervasive ethnocentric culture that is slowly eating away at our togetherness.
Moreover, good leaders devolve power to their lieutenants, which is another way of stating that power is distributed to people and institutions, instead of letting all of the decisions come from the top.
Ultimately, we can change the way things are now, but it's going to take a concerted, unwavering effort to get there. We just need to have faith in ourselves and begin somewhere.
LONTO-BOY 10 years ago
Danny boy, thanks for your response. I find your piece very exciting. Ghana's political leaders are sacrificing the prosperity and development of the country on the alter of tribalism and partisan politics. Just yesterday, I ... read full comment
Danny boy, thanks for your response. I find your piece very exciting. Ghana's political leaders are sacrificing the prosperity and development of the country on the alter of tribalism and partisan politics. Just yesterday, I was watching our own Professor Frimpong-Boateng, the celebrated Cardiothoracic surgeon on CNN's African Voices. I felt a sense of pride listening to his academic and professional achievements, but at the same time, felt hugely disappointed how he's been 'treated'[dismissed from office] by Ghana's politics. My concern is how do we entice highly skilled Ghanaian professionals practising abroad to come home and help build the country?
Danny, you mentioned South Korea in your piece. Now, can Ghana's political leaders learn from South Korea's economic success? The transformation of South Korea's economy from mainly agricultural to a high-tech economy wasn't made possible by mere wave of the 'magic wand'. The political leaders introduced progressive social policies and invested heavily in modernising the country's infrastructure. South Korea's education system placed much emphasis on sciences and technology. This produced skilled workforce and technocrats towards its economic progress. Is Ghana's education system delivering the skills needed for the country's development? Do our Governments support innovation and entrepreneurship? For lack of financial support, I know many innovative Mechanical and Electrical engineering students from KNUST who have ended up in the classroom as 'teachers'. We stifle innovation, because we don't promote it. If our Governments fail to promote innovation, how can we develop aspirational and entrepreneurial culture, like South Koreans?
South Korea invested heavily in its infrastructure- energy, telecommunication, transport network an state-owned large companies/industries. The Government then encouraged foreign investment, especially from the USA to stimulate its economy. So with skilled workforce and good infrastructure, South Korea easily tapped into the international market forces to make its companies such as Samsung, Hyundai and LG, among others as some of the leading global brands. How can Ghana attract investors when our energy is unreliable, with deteriorating road and transport network, poor telecommunication and lack of some basic infrastructure?
Pelicles 10 years ago
We can comment and come out with whatever sensible answers to our predicament but at the end of the day, it is "pure tribal politics" our main foe or enemy that we have to confront and defeat. Without that we are just making ... read full comment
We can comment and come out with whatever sensible answers to our predicament but at the end of the day, it is "pure tribal politics" our main foe or enemy that we have to confront and defeat. Without that we are just making "mirage suggestion".
GREAT NANA ANTWI 10 years ago
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Pelicles 10 years ago
We are not out of that smog of doom yet. We are basically naïve when it comes to choosing a leader who can wrestle the Bull by the horn and direct it towards a particular area it refuses to go.
Ghana cannot and will never ... read full comment
We are not out of that smog of doom yet. We are basically naïve when it comes to choosing a leader who can wrestle the Bull by the horn and direct it towards a particular area it refuses to go.
Ghana cannot and will never get out of the smog of doom. Why? Because of how we VOTE. Look, a commentator once said, " If a monkey is elected from his region to lead them, he will support the monkey who has nothing to offer him than supporting a human who can offer something to all and sundry". Unquote. Now, if we have people with such "dead mentality" where do you think we will go? Nowhere.
Our voting pattern alone is a testimony that we have embarked on a journey to "Nowhere". Mr. Pryce, let me ask you this. Forget about the fact that I am NPP supporter. When Kufuor let office, there was this NHIS in place for Ghanaians. Despite the fact that it was not perfect, the people benefitted from it. When NDC came, they rubbished it and put a dead nail into its coffin and never replaced it. I remember Mills campaigning to institute a "one time premium NHIS" which is yet to be launched. Now, do you think that is achievable or sustainable? How much will an individual pay for a lifetime Health Insurance? Commonsense should tell us that that is a big fat lie yet, ignorant and naïve Ghanaians bought that senseless lie and now, NDC is saying they cannot implement that policy while they have destroyed the not perfect one leaving Ghana to fend for themselves.
We cannot choose a leader due to our insensitivity and lack of understanding. We have allowed a few individuals to muddy the political waters to the disadvantage of all.
Joni 10 years ago
Both political parties are playing politics with this NHIS thing and other initiatives by Kufuor. If you talk to Ghanaians in Ghana about these initiatives they will give you cogent arguments as to their goodness or badness a ... read full comment
Both political parties are playing politics with this NHIS thing and other initiatives by Kufuor. If you talk to Ghanaians in Ghana about these initiatives they will give you cogent arguments as to their goodness or badness according to their political convictions.
The NPP people say NHIS was good as were the presidential initiatives on education, NYEP, single scale and the others and will convince you about the advantages. Talk to an NDC person and he or she will also convince you about the loopholes in all those projects. They will tell you that NPP willfully sabotaged those policies on leaving office in order to make it difficult for the NDC to implement them. A good example is the single scale thing that NDC inherited from NPP which many in NDC think the party should not have implemented. Now the single scale has hiked salaries across the board and we are spending a whopping 75% of our resources on a wage bill that pays only about 1 million people employed by government.
Then the NPP turn around to say that they are the only ones who know how to successfully implement those policies. But good policies should be implementable by whatever government is in place. And the NDC man will tell you that the NPP people, because they are so money conscious, messed up their own programs by stealing half the monies allotted to them.
Meanwhile the NDC is also trying to implement its own policies/projects to show that they too have ideas.
Pelicles, partisan politics is killing ALL OF US not only the supporters of one party. It is disgusting if you see the wealth disparities in Ghana today. A few people (of both political persuasions) are becoming fantastically rich and the masses are struggling more and more. Politicians of BOTH major parties are to be blamed for the mess.
On why I think the people of Ghana cannot choose a "good leader", read my first "longish" entry above.
Daniel K. Pryce 10 years ago
Yes, the extreme partisanship in our body politic is largely to blame for some of the problems we see in our society. Generally, when a new party comes to power, it tries to eliminate many of the policies of the preceding gov ... read full comment
Yes, the extreme partisanship in our body politic is largely to blame for some of the problems we see in our society. Generally, when a new party comes to power, it tries to eliminate many of the policies of the preceding government, whether those policies served good purposes or not. That's part of the myopia we see in some of our leaders. Indeed, we need visionaries who are willing to build on the good work undertaken by others, irrespective of political ideology, to move the nation forward.
Joe Canada 10 years ago
I am sorry and sad to say the answer is big no!! but that is the gospel thuth. growing up, I thought education does empower people to also make a positive change not only in their lives, but those around them as well. but in ... read full comment
I am sorry and sad to say the answer is big no!! but that is the gospel thuth. growing up, I thought education does empower people to also make a positive change not only in their lives, but those around them as well. but in Ghana, education is to show off how one has a good grasp of queen Elizabeth's language but nothing else. Chew and pour is all they know. no common sense to do anything by themselves, and if you dare try to do any good, they will pull you down. gye se atemuda akyi.
John Daniels 10 years ago
I am quite surprised at the lack of growth in your understanding of what constitutes REAL DYNAMIC PROGRESSION of the current Ghanaian Society(GS) as opposed to an expected "textbook" progression. Please be very objective in y ... read full comment
I am quite surprised at the lack of growth in your understanding of what constitutes REAL DYNAMIC PROGRESSION of the current Ghanaian Society(GS) as opposed to an expected "textbook" progression. Please be very objective in your thinking. You see one of the problems we have today in Ghana is perception relative to our "living reality". In short people tend not to compare what they are doing, what they deserve based on what they have done but rather what SOMEONE preferably the Govt shd DO for them.
Tell me where in the so called advance countries can you borrow $500.00 , plant an acre of casaava ( or any business that requires actual hardwork/mindwork), harvest and payback in 15 months with a profit margin of 75-95%?
Yes that is why the Chinese, the Lebanese, Americans, Malaysians etc etc are flocking to Ghana.
Basically if you want to actually work
and earn a living, Ghana is for you. But if you are "princely Ghanaian" who is waiting for some Leader to come and provide you with free SHS, or free toilets, free electricity, free water then please you are welcome. The rest of us have some earning to make.
AKASI MARTHA NZEMA 10 years ago
YES GOOD THING CAN COME OUT OF GHANA, IF GHANAIANS READ MORE OF AMERICA HISTORY. THEY ALSO WENT THROUGH THE SAME WAY WE ARE FACING GHANA/AFRICA. THE DIFFERENT BETWEEN US/THEM, THE SLAVES LABOUR HELP THEM TO MOVE THEIR COUNTRY ... read full comment
YES GOOD THING CAN COME OUT OF GHANA, IF GHANAIANS READ MORE OF AMERICA HISTORY. THEY ALSO WENT THROUGH THE SAME WAY WE ARE FACING GHANA/AFRICA. THE DIFFERENT BETWEEN US/THEM, THE SLAVES LABOUR HELP THEM TO MOVE THEIR COUNTRY FASTER THAN US, THAT'S NO 1. NO.2, THEY BELIEVED IN GOD AND FOLLOWED THE TEN COMMANDMENT ESPECIALLY DO NOT STEAL. GHANA/AFRICA THE STEALING STAT FROM BOTTOM TO THE TOP. EVEN THE STEALING STAT FROM THE FAMILY WHO IS TRYING TO HELP, THAT'S NO.1. NO.2, THE MP'S ARE POACHING, OUR LEADERS ARE WEAK BECAUSE OF AN INSULTS. IF THE "HOLY SPIRIT" IS IN US (GHANA/AFRICA) THE CORRUPTION WON'T COME IN OUR MIND. BELIEVE ME GOOD THING WILL COME OUT OF GHANA/AFRICA.
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago
Danny, your piece has raised a number of questions regarding development in Ghana. Sometimes, I am not sure whether Ghana lacks good leadership or visionary leaders or both. Perhaps, both but LONTO-BOY has mentioned some of t ... read full comment
Danny, your piece has raised a number of questions regarding development in Ghana. Sometimes, I am not sure whether Ghana lacks good leadership or visionary leaders or both. Perhaps, both but LONTO-BOY has mentioned some of the challenges that has led to the current situation. For example, I find it difficult to understand how long it has taken the NDC government to build gas infrastructure after coming into office in 2009. They were aware of the energy problem, that producing energy from natural gas would be cheaper and the natural gas would be flared if there was no factory to process the natural gas from the Jubilee oil field. The building of gas infrastructure should have been a national priority to ensure that one was ready in Ghana within two-three years. Yet, five years in office and the gas factory is only 70% completed.
Sometimes reading or listening to news in Ghana is very depressing (the create,loot and share enterprise of GYEEDA, WOYOME and Judgement Debt, etc).
Ghana can easily stand on her own two feet without budgetary support from IMF, World Bank and development partners if all the taxes were collected into state coffers and do not end up into private pockets, if foreign mining companies pay the appropriate levels of taxes, etc. Unfortunately, politicians, the bar, the bench and civil servants collude with foreign and local investors to cheat the state in create, loot and share enterprise.
The country seems to be led by people who have no strategic solutions to the problems of the country but only short-termism. They are always in crisis management reacting instead of being proactive and taking into consideration the strategic long term vision.
I am not sure how the main opposition party would have handled these problems but the NDC appears to be saddled with challenges beyond their control. Just listen to them now saying that the single spine salary is the problem when less than a year ago they the very people who were praising single spine for doubling or tripling salaries of public workers. The question is, were they not aware that doubling salaries without corresponding increase in production will at best, lead to inflation? Were they unaware that coupled with shortages of energy, production of good and services will go down and the subsequent reduction in revenues for the state by way of low taxes? Were they being simply naive or just plain stupid?
When I hear some of them, including the President giving excuses now, I wonders what is happening (I heard the President say in an answer to question at the Chatham House Seminar on June 14, 2013 that the government used a software that did not allow them to know the final implication of the single spine salary on the overall budget). I was shocked when I heard him say that. A whole govern government implements such an important economic policy and it did not know the overall budgetary and financial implications on economy? Is that real? What are Economists, Statisticians doing in Ghana, those being paid by the state at Ministry of Finance, Bank of Ghana, etc?
Daniel K. Pryce 10 years ago
Thanks, Kofi. I think you and Lonto-Boy have raised very important issues. Sadly, because power is concentrated at the top, with the president not necessarily the most competent man at the helm of affairs (I've already discus ... read full comment
Thanks, Kofi. I think you and Lonto-Boy have raised very important issues. Sadly, because power is concentrated at the top, with the president not necessarily the most competent man at the helm of affairs (I've already discussed the non-merit system that leads to the selection of the president under other threads under my piece), we'll continue to see such juvenile decisions coming from our government leaders.
To add to your very practical, poignant example of the natural gas problem, think about the Akosombo Dam and the perennial low water levels that have threatened the existence of entire power grid in Ghana. Decades after Nkrumah gave us this primary source of energy, subsequent governments have done very little to stabilize our energy needs.
While I hate to mention names, I can say that Jerry Rawlings is perhaps the biggest culprit -- he'd spent the most time in office than anyone else -- yet he was unable to help steer Ghana out of its energy crisis. In other words, we lack both good leaders and visionaries, because, when you really come to think of it, visionaries and good leaders tend to be the same people.
As I was sharing with a friend recently, one cannot be a good leader/president unless he can see beyond today, tomorrow, a year, five years from now. Sadly, we lack such people in authority in Ghana.
Kobena 10 years ago
Kofi,
I think it is sheer incompetence on the part of the NDC government. You remember there was a similar power shortage situation in 2000/2001? By the time Kufuor was sworn in, Ghana's total fuel supply was down to about t ... read full comment
Kofi,
I think it is sheer incompetence on the part of the NDC government. You remember there was a similar power shortage situation in 2000/2001? By the time Kufuor was sworn in, Ghana's total fuel supply was down to about three weeks' supply.
I know for a fact that KT Hammond used his personal relationships to secure a 90-day credit line from Nigeria, which allowed the government to bring in extra generators for Tema and other locations. A special line of credit was secured with the Algerians, to supply light crude for the operation of the Aboadze Power plant, which had been lying dormant or grossly underutilised.
By 2008, the NPP government had prepared ALL the plans for the gas plant in the Western Region. Tullow had been persuaded to provide the associated gas of the first phase of the Jubilee production, for free, to feed that plant.
All that was required was for the incoming government to continue from where the old government had left off. Instead, they decided to go back and review every contract that had been signed, including the one for the the Bui Dam. The result was that construction could not start for another 30 months or so.
Unfortunately, our electorate is so unsophisticated, we still elected the same group that had demonstrated such incompetence and insensitivity towards the people of Ghana.
Daniel, we all have to get involved. There are self-achievers like Dr Nduom, Prof Frimpong Boateng, and others. We need to use the social media and our families and friends in Ghana to ensure that we elect the right leaders in 2016!
Paa Kwesi Mintah 10 years ago
Ghanaians are very capable people in many areas and no one, including me underestimate their potential and ability to adapt.
There's a fundamental governance problem as a result of the constitution. The reason power doesn ... read full comment
Ghanaians are very capable people in many areas and no one, including me underestimate their potential and ability to adapt.
There's a fundamental governance problem as a result of the constitution. The reason power doesn't devolve, as you say, down to the lowest units but resides at the top: That is a structural problem.
You should leave KNUST out of this.
Daniel K. Pryce 10 years ago
Of course, your ideas, suggestions, and persuasive arguments on this site are highly valued -- and I will be the first to admit that. However, I am surprised that you don't see KNUST as a good example for the argument that I ... read full comment
Of course, your ideas, suggestions, and persuasive arguments on this site are highly valued -- and I will be the first to admit that. However, I am surprised that you don't see KNUST as a good example for the argument that I am making. My KNUST example represents everything that's gone bad with our educational system, especially in technology and the hard sciences, because most of these graduates are unable to put their skills to practical use. We need leaders who are willing to invest in technology to move the nation forward.
Does it not annoy you to see undeserving politicians riding in expensive SUVs on terrible roads, while ordinary people live in squalor? What about the fact that we have teaching hospitals, yet these folks fly out to the U.S. and the U.K. as soon as they are ill? What does that say about the health care system? How much will it cost to upgrade the equipment at Korle-Bu or Komfo Anokye? Paa Kwesi, these are serious leadership issues.
Tekonline.org 10 years ago
Nice discussion, Dan. And great responses too. In fact, there is not much to add, except to highlight a few points made by others.
You wrote:
"... For example, the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, wit ... read full comment
Nice discussion, Dan. And great responses too. In fact, there is not much to add, except to highlight a few points made by others.
You wrote:
"... For example, the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, with all the great minds on its engineering faculty, is capable of manufacturing some of our most basic scientific and agricultural products..."
As Paa Kwesi rightly pointed out, it is not the mandate of universities to MANUFACTURE products. Not even by the post-graduate sector. You would be hard pressed to find a made-in-Imperial College refrigerator or a Tokyo University-manufactured car.
However, some Western universities have technology-transfer spinoffs, most notably, MIT. But these are independent, profit-making ventures.
I would daresay all UNDERGRADUATE programs globally are entirely focused on teaching, training, and testing. The goal is to provide the undergrad the FUNDAMENTAL knowledge and set of mental tools for future applications AFTER graduation. So, for instance, rather than KNUST instructing you how to make a water-purification device, it would teach you the principles of osmotic pressure (in the Physical Chemistry course) so that upon graduation you could use that theory to create a reverse-osmosis based water purifier for the villages. But because you learned the entire process of osmosis, you can apply it to many other areas, like desalination. That is the purpose of undergraduate education. Students need a rather BROAD exposure to knowledge, from which they can later specialize.
In more advanced universities endowed with facilities and staffing for research, the POSTGRADUATE phase is where discoveries have a potential. For instance, to understand the nature of diseases affecting the cocoa plant, postgraduates, under the supervision of their professors, would perform research into the biology of the cocoa pest. However, for such research to continue after the student obtains the MSc or PhD degree, the professor must continue to have a steady supply of postgrad students. This also assumes the professor has time to supervise. Often in varsities in advanced nations, the research professors are spared a heavy teaching workload.
No so in Ghana: the lecturers are inundated with heavy teaching assignments and the faculties severely understaffed. Furthermore, not many students opt to pursue postgraduate degrees: they very well know that they can easily earn $80,000 a year as a managing director at a brewery, compared to the measily $30,000 as a research scientist in a university lab.
That is part of the reason CSIR was created (by Nkrumah, perhaps?). The establishment, with its network of research institutes, is charged with the basic, focused, scientific research activities in all the areas vital to Ghana's development.
So what the government needs to do now is EXPAND the CSIR. Money should be pumped into CSIR and more facilities built to absorb more research-oriented postgraduate students. CSIR is already doing a great job in many many areas: the Crops Research Institute in particular for years, have come up with very useful findings that have been applied.
But as the world changes, CSIR must also evolve. The establishment critically needs one more institute: a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (NIT). This, of course, would closely partner with KNUST, like many of CSIR's institutes are already doing.
Such an NIT would be tasked with advancement in computer science and telecommunation technology, as well as innovative programs that would address such needs as water purification, alternative sources of energy, cheap transportation devices, and various innovative contraptions to help our farmers and fishermen. The NIT would also steadily absorb the brightest graduates from KNUST, UG, etc, for innovative research.
U-Turn 10 years ago
Tekonline,
Your mature and well-meaning comments on this forum have been sorely missed. Please let us read more from you.
Tekonline,
Your mature and well-meaning comments on this forum have been sorely missed. Please let us read more from you.
Daniel K. Pryce 10 years ago
Yes, I was thinking about the same thing. I am glad I was able to "unearth" Tekonline.org today! I really appreciate all of the discussions today; it shows that we all love our country very much, even if we disagree on a few ... read full comment
Yes, I was thinking about the same thing. I am glad I was able to "unearth" Tekonline.org today! I really appreciate all of the discussions today; it shows that we all love our country very much, even if we disagree on a few things.
More importantly, 90% of those who joined this discussion did not engage in profanity, which is simply beautiful. We can do more with our minds by digging deep and sharing ideas, instead of coming here to call others unprintable names.
Daniel K. Pryce 10 years ago
I enjoyed reading your contribution. We need advances in science and technology to make life better for the ordinary people. Your suggestions are wonderful, but the question remains: Do our politicians have any knowledge of w ... read full comment
I enjoyed reading your contribution. We need advances in science and technology to make life better for the ordinary people. Your suggestions are wonderful, but the question remains: Do our politicians have any knowledge of what needs to be done?
The rut and rot in the system are due to ignorance on the part of those leading the nation. In the midst of plenty, we starve and cry for help from overseas. We have large begging bowls, which we dangle before Western nations and donors, yet there are resources all around us. How pathetic could we be?
We need good leadership to transform all of these wonderful ideas to practical use. Let's continue to discuss these ideas, as those at the helm of affairs do visit pro-Ghana(ian) Web sites to find out what's going in the general population.
LONTO-BOY 10 years ago
This is one of the best comments I've read on this forum. Very intelligent and brilliantly put. Danke schon!
This is one of the best comments I've read on this forum. Very intelligent and brilliantly put. Danke schon!
Kofi Charlie. 10 years ago
YES, a lot of good things are coming out of Ghana.
May be because of you irresponsible and corrupt behaviour that you cannot realise anything good from your life. If you and your friends, relatives and friends can change you ... read full comment
YES, a lot of good things are coming out of Ghana.
May be because of you irresponsible and corrupt behaviour that you cannot realise anything good from your life. If you and your friends, relatives and friends can change your attitude and mentality about life and the country in a positive way, then without any mistake or doubt you'll see the many good things as many countries have achieved and some of you are proud to cite as examples. Be prepared to share, selfless, show humility, diligence, respect, commitment, self-discipline, community spirit, foster unity and respect difference. These are some of the variables in the equation for economic and social development or advancement in all societies.
Kwobia,Toronto 10 years ago
All countries suffer from one kind of political bias or the other.Political manipulation of the masses is not endemic to African countries only.Ultimately,how Ghana's political parties manage political discourse will help sha ... read full comment
All countries suffer from one kind of political bias or the other.Political manipulation of the masses is not endemic to African countries only.Ultimately,how Ghana's political parties manage political discourse will help shape the leaders of the future.
captain canada 10 years ago
does Ghana deserve anything better? Do Ghanaians in Ghana want a better country? It doesnt look like that. They are happy being con-men, beggars and destructive. And then believe God is going to fix their country. Ghanaians i ... read full comment
does Ghana deserve anything better? Do Ghanaians in Ghana want a better country? It doesnt look like that. They are happy being con-men, beggars and destructive. And then believe God is going to fix their country. Ghanaians in Ghana don't believe in putting in the work and benefiting later. They want instant gratification. Pay up before they lift a finger to help. They've made the con game into an artform. From their churches to the ministries rip off is the name of the game.
So what's the purpose of the political parties?
Danny Boy, I know where your good heart is, but your head is lying to your good self.
Here are your wrong assumptions and mistakes, should I grade your opinion.
You think it'll take some hallowed leader and a political ...
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Well said. But remember too that KNUST's failures in "innovation and anufacturing" are also reflections of "who we are as a people." Individuals amongst us consistently demonstrate world class excellence in science, technolo ...
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"manufacturing"
Wow, what a brilliant explanation, my friend! Certainly, and as you rightly stated, our present condition should not be a permanent one. Like South Koreans, we can overcome the rut and build a better Ghana
Daniel, the problem with ghana is not leadership but the support mechanism of leadership. I am ndc but am fed up with the party. we spend all our time supporting misdirection in leadership. what ghana lacks is direction not l ...
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Paa Kwesi, I take your pessimism for a challenge to us to make the necessary difference now. It will take not only the ideas we put out here directly, but also practical prodding of our Politicians to do the right thing.
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Thanks, Mr. Berko. Indeed, we must begin this journey of transformation with the election of a good leader, one who cares about the whole instead of his immediate relatives and friends. Because our societies have not learned ...
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Mr. Pryce,
I am quite surprised at the lack of growth in your understanding of what constitutes REAL DYNAMIC PROGRESSION of the current Ghanaian Society(GS) as opposed to an expected "textbook" progression. Please be very ob ...
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I understand your first point, but if you revisit my piece, you'll discover that I addressed that concern.
If you argue that we need "a certain awareness and independent benchmark to produce good result," then I believe t ...
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Nkrumah killed tribalism.
JJ ensured it never resurfaced.
Then on the scene came Kufuor and tribalism wake up with a bang.
Mills tried to put it back to the grave.
But woe to Ghana with the emergence of Nana Addo as leade ...
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Pryce! you dirty hypocrite EWE, with you EWE people in our midst in Ghana, of course nothing good can ever come out of Ghana.
Pryce! you just check yourself as a primitive, tribal, selfish and a LAZY EWE who is always agai ...
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GIRLS SP, please, for Christ's sake, quit this kind of personal and ethnic attacks. That is the route we all must unarguably avoid, if we really want our Nation to move on and up.
What you have demonstrated here depicts g ...
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Is that the best contribution you can make to this otherwise constructive discussion started by Paa Kwesi Mintah? Stop this tribalistic bullshit and get a real life! What the kpakpo shitor is your problem?
I take it the Akan government under the leadership of the serial shameless THIEF,Kuffor paved the entire streets of this country with GOLD,and the Ewes who don`t like good things came to remove them,huh?
Mr.Pryce did not att ...
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TROUBLE-MAKER! YOUR MOTHER FUCKER EWE BROTHER PRYCE HAS ATTACKED AKAN TRIBES ON UNCOUNTERBLE TIMES. GO AND READ SOME OF HIS PREVIOUS PIECES POSTED TO GHANAWEB. PRIMITIVE TROKOSI FOOLS!!!
Idiot!!! The Ewes are primitive which is why they still kill fellow human beings to bury their dead village heads even in this 21st century.
The right spelling is UNCOUNTABLE and NOT "UNCOUNTERBLE".
When you have finished learning how to spell peoperly then you can come back to insult me more.
Look Trouble-Maker, that idiot is yet to divorce himself from that animal shit mentality which blinds them to think they are the most important ethnic group in Africa!!! I am even wondering whether they are up to half the Hau ...
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"It is unfortunate to note that people who feed on animal shit as a delicacy often end up with rotten minds."
You are right,Xebieso.Those animal SHITS are contaminated and the result is what we are seeing.
Bastard upon bastard. I am proud to be an Ewe and NEVER an Akan. What the hell must be wrong with you swines? Can you please just mention for once the good things destroyed and stolen by Ewes in your Ghana? Do you think the E ...
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Very good question! A friend and I discussed this issue just last night.
Political parties are actually the problem. Political parties provide a platform for electing our presidents, but this method of selection means tha ...
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"In other words, they'd be looking to MAKE some "profit" when their own guy gets elected."
I am sure the good people of Ghana will very much want to choose the best leader - one who can improve the lot of ALL Ghanaians! But the fact is that they cannot for the following reasons:
1. The people can only choose amo ...
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Hi, where are you based?
Mr. Painkiller, thanks for your very candid views. I can bet here that I'm a good material to lead Ghana for better.
Thanks, Joni. In fact, your comments mirror the discussion I had with a friend just last night. Sadly, the political parties control who ascends to the most important political throne -- the presidency -- but we can change th ...
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Well, under the circumstances, that may be the only thing that the electorate can make a choice on. That is to say if they are presented with Mahama vrs Akufo-Addo as the most probable winners in an election, NDC partisans (a ...
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Joni, you certainly understand this problem more than many of us do! Thanks for sharing your wonderful ideas. As Pelicles has stated elsewhere, tribalism makes it hard for us to look beyond party affiliation to vote for bette ...
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You wrote:
"...1. The people can only choose among those candidates that are presented to them by the political parties as well as the independent candidates who are able to present themselves. In practice, the candidates pr ...
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Our system of choosing leaders through the political parties may not be the ideal, but unfortunately, that is what we have, that is the practice of democracy we have come to endorse. Indeed, our political systems, just as our ...
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Danny Boy, I know where your good heart is, but your head is lying to your good self.
Here are your wrong assumptions and mistakes, should I grade your opinion.
You think it'll take some hallowed leader and a politica ...
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Paa Kwesi,
Loads of equipment, pharmaceutical and agricultural products have been researched and produced at UST, and Legon too, in the past. The problem has been a forward thinking government that will move for their manufa ...
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Good reminiscence, Kobby. You wrote:
"...Do you know that all the traffic lights used at the UST campus were designed and manufactured with local materials at the university, including the bulbs? Some of them were actuall ...
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Techonline,
There are numerous such projects at UST. The original traffic light research and design was carried out by the late Prof Bamfo-Kwakye with some students in the late 19860s early 70s. They also designed a wooden o ...
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No, not now. Cause there's not a single person living now in my Ghana who has this nation and its people at heart. They're all vampires seeking for warm blood to suck. Most of them either have scores to settle or deepen the a ...
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Very, very good analysis of the Ghanaian problem! But what I am calling for is the motivation to move past this painful past and to create a better society. I believe we can do it, even if it takes years.
Yes. And it saddens me to see people who put themselves in leadership positions rape this country in such callous and disgraceful manner. We may get somebody but people like Nkrumah's caliber are rare breed and don't show up ...
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Please do not confuse yourself and everybody else.You made mention of advanced countries,with all due respect, you should agree with me that we are not yet at the advance level. Mind you, You crawl before you walk.These advan ...
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Please don't support mediocrity. When are we going to stop "breastfeeding" and start eating real food, in a proverbial sense? John Mahama was at CNN HQ the other day and he rightly reminded the foreign press to stop focusing ...
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I cannot agree more with most of what Mr. Pryce has said for our salvation in this Article. My only astonishment with it is how Mr. Pryce has come around to recommend almost all the Economic vectors that Nkrumah pursued, giv ...
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Mr. Berko,
I do not loath Nkrumah! As far as I am concerned, he was the best man to have ever ruled Ghana. However, every leader has his weaknesses, and Nkrumah certainly had his. The two articles I had penned about Nkruma ...
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Danny boy, your sentiments are well and truly appreciated but your concerns are misdirected. Ghana's problem is not necessarily the absence of 'individuality' of visionary and pragmatic leadership. Of course, Ghana has indivi ...
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Thanks for your critique. However, if you re-assess the contents of my piece, you'll find that the sort of mental revolution I am calling for would address many of your concerns, including the pervasive ethnocentric culture t ...
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Danny boy, thanks for your response. I find your piece very exciting. Ghana's political leaders are sacrificing the prosperity and development of the country on the alter of tribalism and partisan politics. Just yesterday, I ...
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We can comment and come out with whatever sensible answers to our predicament but at the end of the day, it is "pure tribal politics" our main foe or enemy that we have to confront and defeat. Without that we are just making ...
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ARE YOU IN NEED OF A FAST POWERFUL SPIRITUALIST ok www.greatnanapowerfullspiritualist.blogspot.com
We are not out of that smog of doom yet. We are basically naïve when it comes to choosing a leader who can wrestle the Bull by the horn and direct it towards a particular area it refuses to go.
Ghana cannot and will never ...
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Both political parties are playing politics with this NHIS thing and other initiatives by Kufuor. If you talk to Ghanaians in Ghana about these initiatives they will give you cogent arguments as to their goodness or badness a ...
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Yes, the extreme partisanship in our body politic is largely to blame for some of the problems we see in our society. Generally, when a new party comes to power, it tries to eliminate many of the policies of the preceding gov ...
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I am sorry and sad to say the answer is big no!! but that is the gospel thuth. growing up, I thought education does empower people to also make a positive change not only in their lives, but those around them as well. but in ...
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I am quite surprised at the lack of growth in your understanding of what constitutes REAL DYNAMIC PROGRESSION of the current Ghanaian Society(GS) as opposed to an expected "textbook" progression. Please be very objective in y ...
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YES GOOD THING CAN COME OUT OF GHANA, IF GHANAIANS READ MORE OF AMERICA HISTORY. THEY ALSO WENT THROUGH THE SAME WAY WE ARE FACING GHANA/AFRICA. THE DIFFERENT BETWEEN US/THEM, THE SLAVES LABOUR HELP THEM TO MOVE THEIR COUNTRY ...
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Danny, your piece has raised a number of questions regarding development in Ghana. Sometimes, I am not sure whether Ghana lacks good leadership or visionary leaders or both. Perhaps, both but LONTO-BOY has mentioned some of t ...
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Thanks, Kofi. I think you and Lonto-Boy have raised very important issues. Sadly, because power is concentrated at the top, with the president not necessarily the most competent man at the helm of affairs (I've already discus ...
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Kofi,
I think it is sheer incompetence on the part of the NDC government. You remember there was a similar power shortage situation in 2000/2001? By the time Kufuor was sworn in, Ghana's total fuel supply was down to about t ...
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Ghanaians are very capable people in many areas and no one, including me underestimate their potential and ability to adapt.
There's a fundamental governance problem as a result of the constitution. The reason power doesn ...
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Of course, your ideas, suggestions, and persuasive arguments on this site are highly valued -- and I will be the first to admit that. However, I am surprised that you don't see KNUST as a good example for the argument that I ...
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Nice discussion, Dan. And great responses too. In fact, there is not much to add, except to highlight a few points made by others.
You wrote:
"... For example, the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, wit ...
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Tekonline,
Your mature and well-meaning comments on this forum have been sorely missed. Please let us read more from you.
Yes, I was thinking about the same thing. I am glad I was able to "unearth" Tekonline.org today! I really appreciate all of the discussions today; it shows that we all love our country very much, even if we disagree on a few ...
read full comment
I enjoyed reading your contribution. We need advances in science and technology to make life better for the ordinary people. Your suggestions are wonderful, but the question remains: Do our politicians have any knowledge of w ...
read full comment
This is one of the best comments I've read on this forum. Very intelligent and brilliantly put. Danke schon!
YES, a lot of good things are coming out of Ghana.
May be because of you irresponsible and corrupt behaviour that you cannot realise anything good from your life. If you and your friends, relatives and friends can change you ...
read full comment
All countries suffer from one kind of political bias or the other.Political manipulation of the masses is not endemic to African countries only.Ultimately,how Ghana's political parties manage political discourse will help sha ...
read full comment
does Ghana deserve anything better? Do Ghanaians in Ghana want a better country? It doesnt look like that. They are happy being con-men, beggars and destructive. And then believe God is going to fix their country. Ghanaians i ...
read full comment