But I would caution all our political operatives to move beyond the mudslinging,which has not helped the country;but rather focus on finding workable solutions to our intractable 'problems'!
But I would caution all our political operatives to move beyond the mudslinging,which has not helped the country;but rather focus on finding workable solutions to our intractable 'problems'!
Kojo T 9 years ago
Fourth, we must recognize that governments, by and large are not effective job creators. We must establish an environment that will help private investors to create jobs and to pay living wages for more and more of our people ... read full comment
Fourth, we must recognize that governments, by and large are not effective job creators. We must establish an environment that will help private investors to create jobs and to pay living wages for more and more of our people, such that our governments will have a hard time attracting people to the public sector Authur K , NPP was in power why did they not create the environment 2 Who left the factories to rot that ou are complining about? why were they not put to use in 1966 or 1969 . In 1966 JJ was in SHS and came in 1982 , 16 good years the factories were left idle and to rot . I like you but stop playing politics NPP is WORSE than NDC VOTE CPP FOR PROGRESS
GG 9 years ago
Great Comment, Kojo. Some people cannot get out the foolish ideological straitjacket even when they know it doesn't apply to reality. It has been 48 years since 1966 when Nkrumah was overthrown - almost half a century! As you ... read full comment
Great Comment, Kojo. Some people cannot get out the foolish ideological straitjacket even when they know it doesn't apply to reality. It has been 48 years since 1966 when Nkrumah was overthrown - almost half a century! As you correctly point out none of the regimes that came in have "created the environment for blah-blah-blah..." The last time the Danquah-Busia mafia was in power they bandied around the same ideological nonsense about the private sector being the engine of growth...but ended up just looting the public sector assets and resources with a few family enterprises for the Kufuors and their cronies. Real political scientists (emphasis on "scientists") have pointed out, based on scholarly analysis and hard evidence, that for developing countries like ours the road to quick development and job creation - as Nkrumah showed - is through state intervention. The developed countries have had centuries to perfect their system so private capital works there but not in ours.
I must disagree with you that
GG 9 years ago
NDC is not better than NPP. This is the mistake many CPP members made and joined NDC to the detriment of their party and progress in Ghana. NDC and NPP
are the same gang in different clothes!
NDC is not better than NPP. This is the mistake many CPP members made and joined NDC to the detriment of their party and progress in Ghana. NDC and NPP
are the same gang in different clothes!
Wankanoyie 9 years ago
Your services are not needed in Ghana!But is Arthur K being honest with the caliber of graduates our universities are churning out? Does he realize that in certain situations, generalists who can think outside the box are mor ... read full comment
Your services are not needed in Ghana!But is Arthur K being honest with the caliber of graduates our universities are churning out? Does he realize that in certain situations, generalists who can think outside the box are more useful than specialists? Look,the "dondology" folks,if properly guided to think on their feet,can become a very useful national asset to move our current Agya Koo 'concert party' movie/entertain industry[a multi-million GH Cedi opportunity waiting to be properly harnessed] to the next level. And in all seriousness, how different are our "intelligent graduates more suited to idleness than[real]work" going to help this nation,if we do not undergo a radical change in attitude?
And do the members of your own fraternity,the doctors,who prefer to engage in double-dipping and openly taking sides in the politics of this country,rather than focusing on patient care,not need a re-orientation towards their hippocratic oath?
I will simply like to add to what Art K has outlined by encouraging our polytechnics,with support from govt, to train some the hordes of our unemployed youths in proper waste management techniques to take care of the filth that have filled our cities and towns.
Captein 9 years ago
I do agree with most of what you said but to blame the woes of this country solely on the NDC and the period of the 80s and 90s is rather unpardonable.
We all know from whatever rigorous socioeconomic and scientific analysis ... read full comment
I do agree with most of what you said but to blame the woes of this country solely on the NDC and the period of the 80s and 90s is rather unpardonable.
We all know from whatever rigorous socioeconomic and scientific analysis that more was achieved within the very period you claim had been culprit. And you know it except to say that may be in the heat of Ghana's reconstruction you had to leave maybe against your will, to the USA or UK who knows where you fled to first.
Please do not let us leave in the past. Since in the times you talked about there was not even internet or laptops, ipads, iphones(smartphones,etc.,to aid development.
You seem to blame again the NDC for "donkoming" industries and the same time ssying traditionally government is not a job creator in the same vein.
So please what a tautology you are making to confuse yourself. Is it just to satisfy your NPP and the so called unrepentant Nana Addo bent on becoming president at all cost without apologizing to Ghanaians about his rant of infamous "all die be die".
This man next time by default if the NPP make him their flag bearer will end his page with "all destruction be destruction" in 2016.
Now lets fast truck to 2001 when NPP came to power by the slimmest of margins and scaremongering; dumping of corpses of women littering Accra at dawn with carcasses and culminating in the slaugther of Ya Na. Awere sacrificed to come to power.
Then what did the NPP do Kufuor went to Bretton Woods Ghana became HIPC and relieved of all debt since independence.
This was massive relief any country has ever had it eliminated any arrears since our birth as a nation. Who doesn't want this.
If South Korea and Malaysia had this freeing of debt they would be lending money to the USA like China is doing now.
Lo what did your own NPP do?
Property owning democracy grabbing prime asserts of the nation by individuals, judgement debt started with Kufuor, then they went into the drugs trade to top it. Apparently the HIPC RELIEF was running out so hey lets go into drugs. To the extent that the NPP asked the IMF for HIPC No.2 you remember.
Nana wanted to defend Ghanaian drug dealers arrested into Thailand prisons and so forth. While Ghanaians killed in Gambia in cold blood did not matter to him.
Some monies accruing from HIPC were used for gold chains, Kufuor became a bling bling hiplifer.
Now lets go to the worker and the NPP the subsidy on petroleum was lifted for the first time in Ghana by Kufuor but prior to his coming to office it was agreed and a promise to workers that everything is negotiable under the terms of IMF agreement except petroleum prices but to the disappontment of workers petrol prices were the first shock to hit workers under Kufuor.
Lets not talk about electricity and power cuts selling of Osagefo Barge etc. No grid was added to the Rawlings' rural electrification programme by the way. The freeing of the airwaves by Rawlings became the lunch pin against the NDC.
Workers housing was curtailed albeit only the police received some Tundras to protect areas where NPP ministers lived. Armed robbery was at its peak because registered gun owner forfeited their weapons to make way for small arms trade and cottage arms proliferation. This situation made workers unsafe.
Then came Ghana @50 branding and celebration massive looting took place imports of firstclass cars from the USA,paying of contructors from jute bags instead of from the banks. Mpiani and Wereko- Brobbey could not account for and received pardon by Atta Mills.
The Jubilee house cost of building budget ad hoclly tripled from the original $30million.
The liberal NPP member Finance minister dies and a co-opted Hawa Yakubu passes all mysteriously after a meal.
A useless redenomination in July, 2007 faking that Ghana cediwas equal to the USA DOLLAR. A trojan horse today because our exports have become to expensive on the supply side of the equation. Not only the demand side has alo become extremely expensive in that cocoa input fertilzers,fungicides and pesticides have become exhorbitant for farmers who cannot afford so prduction has also fallen.
As I speak South Korea is happy that for the first time since 2008 the won appreciated from W1026=$1 to W1000=$1 before the Sewol shipwreck or disaster.
Read my lips the South Korea example that Arthur Kennedy gave the still count their currency in '000s till today just like Ghana did before the useless redenomination.
You remember the NPP even overloaded the plane that brought the new GHc to the extent the plane went nose up during unloading. Whose pocket the excess money went we can all surmise.
As I write the cost of redenomination printing of new currency is not know to Ghanaians and we are all quiet as Ghanaians and Bawumia has th audacity to go to Central University and profess fake problems about the Ghanaian econmy and IMANI and sorts will be ranting from time to time whem given the chance to serve the country by Mills Franklin Cudjoe runs helter skelter. His recent friend Casely Hayford has been in tge news lately. I will have to study all that he says if it makes sense or just another NPP imbed or implant.
In short this is the true economy that predated Mahama govt and he might just be doing fine. Because even the USA has problems massive debt, unemployment though improved to 6.1% compared to Ghana's low economy though that givernment has been the largest employer about 80% including all politicians. If Arthur Kennedy establishes a hospital and operate from there like Dr Mahama and other say Dr Nduom Ghana could be heading somewhere.
Captein 9 years ago
Just a bit of title correction thanks.
Just a bit of title correction thanks.
Brother 9 years ago
How can the learned Dr. Kennedy say that the problems started from 80s and 90s? Where have we seen development after 60s. Why has he chosen to talk to Ghana as if we are 30 years. What of the 60s and 70s? What happened betwee ... read full comment
How can the learned Dr. Kennedy say that the problems started from 80s and 90s? Where have we seen development after 60s. Why has he chosen to talk to Ghana as if we are 30 years. What of the 60s and 70s? What happened between those years? Same old politics presented as facts.
azintakanyatinka 9 years ago
'A nation that is more interested in politics than development will be perpetually under-developed.'Yes, open the radio and TV and it is only the 'I know all' politicians who are talking. On health, agriculture, education, en ... read full comment
'A nation that is more interested in politics than development will be perpetually under-developed.'Yes, open the radio and TV and it is only the 'I know all' politicians who are talking. On health, agriculture, education, engineering etc issues, one will never hear the health personnel, agriculturist, educationist, engineer etc talking except 'the I know all' politician.
TEE 9 years ago
GHANAIAN POLITICIANS ARE ALL USELESS AND HOPELESS THEY HAVE NO RESPECT FOR EACH WHY
GHANAIAN POLITICIANS ARE ALL USELESS AND HOPELESS THEY HAVE NO RESPECT FOR EACH WHY
For calling them wee and cocain smokers
But I would caution all our political operatives to move beyond the mudslinging,which has not helped the country;but rather focus on finding workable solutions to our intractable 'problems'!
Fourth, we must recognize that governments, by and large are not effective job creators. We must establish an environment that will help private investors to create jobs and to pay living wages for more and more of our people ...
read full comment
Great Comment, Kojo. Some people cannot get out the foolish ideological straitjacket even when they know it doesn't apply to reality. It has been 48 years since 1966 when Nkrumah was overthrown - almost half a century! As you ...
read full comment
NDC is not better than NPP. This is the mistake many CPP members made and joined NDC to the detriment of their party and progress in Ghana. NDC and NPP
are the same gang in different clothes!
Your services are not needed in Ghana!But is Arthur K being honest with the caliber of graduates our universities are churning out? Does he realize that in certain situations, generalists who can think outside the box are mor ...
read full comment
I do agree with most of what you said but to blame the woes of this country solely on the NDC and the period of the 80s and 90s is rather unpardonable.
We all know from whatever rigorous socioeconomic and scientific analysis ...
read full comment
Just a bit of title correction thanks.
How can the learned Dr. Kennedy say that the problems started from 80s and 90s? Where have we seen development after 60s. Why has he chosen to talk to Ghana as if we are 30 years. What of the 60s and 70s? What happened betwee ...
read full comment
'A nation that is more interested in politics than development will be perpetually under-developed.'Yes, open the radio and TV and it is only the 'I know all' politicians who are talking. On health, agriculture, education, en ...
read full comment
GHANAIAN POLITICIANS ARE ALL USELESS AND HOPELESS THEY HAVE NO RESPECT FOR EACH WHY