Ghanaian Engineers and Scientists: The eagles that refuse to soar

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• Kweku Ananse 11 years ago

  Sometimes there is environmental friendliness in relyingn on old and manual methods of farming and production in general. Things evolve over time so do not write off our engineers and scientists. With the right environment th ...
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  Sometimes there is environmental friendliness in relyingn on old and manual methods of farming and production in general. Things evolve over time so do not write off our engineers and scientists. With the right environment they will rise to the occasion. I can see you are inexperienced. Briatain was once referred to as a nation of shopkeepers, but see where they are now technologically. I rest my case.

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• Kojo T 11 years ago

  Yes you make excuses. How long must we wait .Do you know the simple principles involved? Tweaa they only know how to insult and go on strike

  Yes you make excuses. How long must we wait .Do you know the simple principles involved? Tweaa they only know how to insult and go on strike

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• NANA ARABA 11 years ago

  KWAKU WELL SAID!
  
  WHY OUR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS, ARCHITECTS AND SCIENTISTS ALL THSE YEARS HAVE NOT APPROACHED PRESIDENTS OF GHANA TO SAY "WE HAVE THE EXPETISE TO TRANSFORM OUR NATION GHANA, LETS BRAINSTORM AND COME UP WITH ...
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  KWAKU WELL SAID!
  
  WHY OUR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS, ARCHITECTS AND SCIENTISTS ALL THSE YEARS HAVE NOT APPROACHED PRESIDENTS OF GHANA TO SAY "WE HAVE THE EXPETISE TO TRANSFORM OUR NATION GHANA, LETS BRAINSTORM AND COME UP WITH SOULUTIONS!"
  
  IF THE PRESIDENTS OF GHANA PAST AND PRESENT CANNOT UTILIZE ITS PROFESSIONALS THAT HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE AND EXPETISE TO HELP TRANSFORM OUR COUNTRY INFRASTRUCTURELY AND ECONOMICALLY THEN WHAT IS THEIR USE? MANY ENGINEERS, ARCHITECTS, AND SCIENTISIT GRADUATING EVERY YEAR FROM GHANA UNIVERSITIES WITH SUBSIDIES TOWARDS THEIR TUTION YET THERE ARE NO INCENTIVES IN PLACE FOR THEM TO UTILIZE THIER SKILLS IN THE SYSTEM? WHAT SENSE THAT DOES MAKE? MOST OF THEM ARE UNEMPLOYED! SO EMIGRATE ABROAD TO SEEK GREENER PASTURES.
  
  FOREIGN COMPANIES ARE NOT NECESSERILY THE SOLUTION. EVERY SOCIETY HAD TO IMPROVE THIER SANITIATION SYSTEM AT ONE POINT IN TIME BECAUSE HOW THEY WERE DEALING WITH WASTE MANAGEMENT WAS NOT THE SOLUTION.
  
  LONDON IN THE 1800'S HAD HUMAN WASTE IN THE THAMES RIVER IT WAS CALLED "THE STINK" MANY DIED OF CHOLERA SO THEY HAD TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS. A FAMOUS ENGINEER DAY AND NIGHT WAS SEEN IN HIS HOUSE DESIGNING THE SEWAGE SYSTEM OF LONDON. NEEDLESS TO SAY LONDON'S UNDERGROUND SEWAGE SYSTEM IS ONE ON THE BEST IN THE WORLD TODAY AFTER 200 YEARS IT STILL SERVES LONDON!
  
  SO OUR GHANAIAN ENGINEERS, ARCHITECHETS, SCIENTISTS WHAT IS YOUR EXCUSE FOR PUTTING YOUR PROFESSION TO SUCH SHAME BY NOT DOING MUCH FOR YOUR COUNTRY?
  
  GHANA INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERS LOCATED AT ROMAN RIDGE (GHIE) GHANA ALSO HAS INSTITUE OF ARCHITECTS (GIA) THERE IS GHANAIAN ENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS OF AMERICA (GEAAA)BASED IN THE USA
  
  WHAT HAVE YOUR ORGANIZATIONS DONE OR WHAT ARE THEY DOING TO IMPROVE GHANA'S ECONOMIC STRUCTURE FOR THE BETTER?
  
  HAVE ANY OF YOUR ORGANIZATIONS CONTACTED ANY OF THE GHANAIAN PRESIDENTS PAST AND PRESENT TO DISCUSS HOW YOU ALL ARE GOING TO USE YOUR EXPETISE FOR THE NECESSARY CHANGE THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN IN OUR BELOVED COUNTRY GHANA, WITH SOOO MUCH RESOURCES TO GENERATE WHEALTH,SUCCESS AND GET SOME RESPECT ON THE GLOBAL PLAYING STAGE?
  
  IF ANY OF YOUR ORGANIZATIONS HAVE CONTACTED PAST PRESIDENTS AND CURRENT PRESIDENT LET US HEAR ABOUT IT IN THE MEDIA THAT IS THE ONLY WAY WE WOULD KNOW YOUR ORGANIZATIONS ARE TRULY UTILIZING YOUR SKILLS AS YOU SHOULD TO HELP YOUR COUNTY CLIMB OUT OF THIS DISGRACEFUL MESS IT IS IN!
  
  FLODDING WHEN IT RAINS IN GHANA, CHILDREN AND ADULTS DYING NEEDLESSLY,POWER FAILURE MANY TIMES IN ONE DAY! LACK OF CONSTANT WATER SUPPLY TO HOMES AND HOSPITALS!, SEWAGE SYSTEMS THAT ARE STAGNANT. KORLE LAGOON FULL OF OIL, DEBRIS AND HUMAN WASTE. TREES HAVE GROWNN IN THE KORLE LAGOON WITH BIRD'S NEST IN THEM! BAD ROAD WITH POT HOLES! OVERFLOWING GARBBAGE! IN THE AGE OF SOLAR ENERGY SHOULD ALL THIS MESS BE GOING ON IN GHANA? WHEN WE HAVE SOO MANY PROFESSIONALS WITH EXPETISE TO SOLVE IT! WHAT IS WRONG WITH US? PROFESSIONALS TALK OF SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR COUNTRY BECAUSE IT IS A NATIONAL DISGRACE FOR THE WHOLE WORLD TO SEE. ENOUGH OF INCOMPETENT SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES THAT ARE INCOMPETENT AND INEFFICIENT! COME UP WITH SOLUTIONS THAT WORK ONCE AND FOR ALL!

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• K. Mensah 11 years ago

  The emphasis should be on "appropriate technology" and sustainable methods not wholesale importation, without deference to local needs and environmental concerns, of industrial technology from abroad. Even in France there is ...
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  The emphasis should be on "appropriate technology" and sustainable methods not wholesale importation, without deference to local needs and environmental concerns, of industrial technology from abroad. Even in France there is a strong movement to preserve traditional, organic farming methods and not industrialize everything. Cuban agriculture suffered from the uncritical adoption of industrial technology and fertilizer use in the 60s and 70s. Now they've turned the crisis of the 90s when they couldn't get support anymore from the Eastern European countries into a mass organic movement that has been reviving the soil and yields. Many cooperative farms that started using animal drawn ploughs for lack of petrol to run their tractors have discovered that they are actually doing far better. China's transformation into the factory of the world has come at a high cost to the environment. Worst of all was the promotion of the automobile industry. Now there are days when people cannot breathe in Beijing and other cities due to smog from car exhaust and factory emissions! Germany today is one of the leading promoters of the use of solar energy, and they have decided to get rid of all the nuclear plants!
  
  I agree that we do need a clear, national Science and Technology policy that vigorously supports both education and research. But we definitely do not have to promote a copycat replication of the Western experience!

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• K. Mensah 11 years ago

  This is the second article by Kuma accusing our scientists and engineers of being do-nothings. But is the accusation completely fair?
  
  No enterprise can take off without Capital (except when already-built state properties a ...
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  This is the second article by Kuma accusing our scientists and engineers of being do-nothings. But is the accusation completely fair?
  
  No enterprise can take off without Capital (except when already-built state properties are stolen in Ghana!). In the absence of government support where are the Ghanaian Venture Capitalists to support our scientists and engineers bring their ideas to fruition, as done in the advanced countries? How many of our overnight-rich kleptocrat-millionaires and billionaires have even thought of using a tiny fraction of their no-sweat, stupendous amounts of capital to support our engineers and scientists to bring some of their ideas to practical fruition? Where do Kwesi Botchwey, Dr Kufuor, the Mahama brothers, Sam Jonah etc invest their easy millions and billions? Perhaps Kuma should direct his ire on our fabulously wealthy folks instead of the struggling scientists and engineers - some of whom are lucky even to have jobs that barely meet their living needs!

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• Paa Joe 11 years ago

  OPAYIN KWEKU KUMA-
  
  YOU ARE INDEED RIGHT FOR YOUR COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF THE SITUATION
  ON THE GROUND IN GHANA.
  
  ARE YOU SURE GHANA HAS SCIENTISTS.
  
  IT IS STILL A PITY THAT,THE SO CALLED EDUCATED IN GHANA STILL REMAI ...
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  OPAYIN KWEKU KUMA-
  
  YOU ARE INDEED RIGHT FOR YOUR COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF THE SITUATION
  ON THE GROUND IN GHANA.
  
  ARE YOU SURE GHANA HAS SCIENTISTS.
  
  IT IS STILL A PITY THAT,THE SO CALLED EDUCATED IN GHANA STILL REMAIN UNCONVINCED OF THE IMPORTANCE OF SCIENTIFIC INNOVATION, DISCOVERY AND INVENTION IN CREATING ECONOMIC GROWTH,INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT DYNAMIC INDUSTRIES,EMPLOYMENT, INCOME AND QUALITY OF LIFE.
  
  IF THAT IS THE CASE, DO WE REALLY NEED UNIVERSITIES IN THE COUNTRY AND SHOULD STUDENTS EVEN BE INVITED BY FOREIGN INSTITUTIONS TO PURSUE FURTHER COURSES IN AGRICULTURE, ENGINEERING AND NATURAL SCIENCES.
  
  IT IS TIME THEY END THEIR CONTINUED HIGHLIFE, HONEYMOON AND MERRYMKING
  IN GHANA.
  
  EDUCATION IS MEANT FOR SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY.
  
  IT IS INDEED VERY SAD THAT, THE EDUCATED HAVE UNDERDEVELOPED THE COUNTRY.

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• Paa Joe 11 years ago

  OPAYIN K. MENASH.
  
  IT IS WELL KNOWN IN THE ECONOMICS THAT, PRODUCTION IS CAPITAL AND CAPITAL IS PRODUCTION.
  
  HAVE ANY OF THE SO CALLED BEST BRAINED ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS PRESENTED THEIR DISCOVERIES AND INVENTION TO THE ...
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  OPAYIN K. MENASH.
  
  IT IS WELL KNOWN IN THE ECONOMICS THAT, PRODUCTION IS CAPITAL AND CAPITAL IS PRODUCTION.
  
  HAVE ANY OF THE SO CALLED BEST BRAINED ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS PRESENTED THEIR DISCOVERIES AND INVENTION TO THE GOVERNMENT FOR FIMANCIAL SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE.
  
  EVEN THEN,WHY ARE GHANAIAN ENGINEERS STILL RELUCTANT TO GO FORWARD TO ASK FOR THE RELEASE OF MANY ABANDONED INDUSTERIES BUILT IN THE LATE FIFTTIES THROUGH TO EARLY SIXTIES AND TO TURN THEM TO PRODUCTION.
  
  SOME FEW EXAMPLES ARE ABOSO GLASS FACTORY,BONSA TYRE FACTORY, SALTPOND CERAMIC, POMAZE FEED MILL AND POMAZE POULTRY; ASUTARE AND KOMENDA SUGAR FACTORIES AND TARKWA GOLD REFINERY.
  
  HAVE THE SO CALLED EDUCATED EVEN MADE AN ATTEMPT TO PUT UP A BUSINESS PLAN TO THE GOVERNMENT AND TO SECURE THESE INDUSTRIES.
  
  UMLESS WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE AND WHERE WE ARE GOING WE WILL REMAN BACKWARD, UNDERDEVELOPED AND POOR.
  
  TIME FOR US TO BE OBJECTIVE.

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