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09.11.2011 Opinion

GHANA MUST FOLLOW A NEW DEVELOPMENT PATH

By Dun-Dery Elvis Junior
GHANA MUST FOLLOW A NEW DEVELOPMENT PATH
09.11.2011 LISTEN

“Our people supported us in our fight for independence because they believed that African Governments could cure the ills of the past in a way which could never be accomplished under colonial rule. If, therefore, now we are independent we allow the same conditions to exist that existed in the colonial days, all the resentment which overthrew colonialism will be mobilized against us,” Dr. Kwame Nkrumah

Is it not obvious that Ghana's politics and for that matter vote seeking is based on the number of projects the ruling party is able to commission and abundant before the next election year? Or the number of districts a government is able create without effort of developing them? What then becomes the faith of these projects and premature political districts, there are left unattended to and if they are lucky to have the attention, just a little is done with the intension of winning votes in the next election. Ghanaians, I should say have not come to realize how they have been used all these years just for the selfish gains of politicians. If I had the opportunity, I would change the development path and spare the people of Ghana the headache of hailing to the fake promises of politicians.

Ghana has enough resources to have developed beyond her present stage after fifty-four years of independence. Some Ghanaians still live without portable drinking water, poor health systems, poor road networks among others. I suggest that parliament should come out with a development plan to decide the number of schools, hospitals, roads, provision of portable water, districts etc. that a government in power should establish depending on the state of Ghana's resources at the time of the ruling government. These projects should be distributed in all regions where their services are needed. This will ensure social and distributive justice and not neglecting some parts of the country. These should not be based on the number of votes the ruling party obtains from a particular region.

The development of Ghana should not be left in the hands of politics and votes seeking ideas of selfish politicians but should be a collective decision of Ghanaians and resources available. It is however pertinent to add that the NDC and all past government have done their best but not enough.

The NDC government I must say is one of the best to ever witness by Ghanaians. They have done a lot judging from the tremendous development projects dotted across the length and breadth of the country.

The free school uniforms, increase in capitation grant, free laptops to school pupils, elimination of schools under trees are some of the good works of the government in the educational sector which I believe will go a long way to develop the human resource base of the country.

Dun-Dery Elvis Junior
Sunyani

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