Amissah Arthurnomics-Short notes

It is incomprehensible for educated people to hide behind their failures to justify mediocrity. Did I hear the Vice President of our wonderful Ghana tout that one does not need textbook prescriptions to manage our economy? Textbooks, we all know are “messages” or “prescriptions” of real life situations handed over by knowledgeable people in their fields of endeavors'. In a country where deceit and propaganda are the order, and greed, avarice and lies are part of our everyday life, the vice president will be left off the hook.

So many years ago the PNDC whipped up the ante of illiteracy and made Ghanaians believe that education was not important and even District Assembly members with no education could compete to be District Chief Executives and Presiding members. After this bunch of neo-politicians entered the assembly halls, the stark reality befell on them. They realized that they had been misled. Assembly businesses were conducted in English and the Ministry of Local Government never helped them. Instead of coming out to explain to Ghanaians the reason for the slide of our currency and how it may be fixed, or why our foreign reserves have been declining steadily, the vice president went back to their old tricks to play on the intelligence of our people. We have passed this stage and I can bet my last pesewa that Ghanaians know that education is very vital.

If one does not need textbook economics to manage Ghana's finances, why would he even teach economics at University of Ghana, and why would he use his academic credentials as the basic qualification for the governorship of Bank of Ghana. Atta Mills could have gone ahead and appointed Opanin Kojo Mbiah, from Central Region, or Alorvi Abotsi from Volta Region or Adongo Ayidana from Upper East Region to manage our economy because textbooks are irrelevant here.

It is difficult to put pieces together here. If textbooks are not important then our doctors, professors in our tertiary universities, engineers, famers can off the book prescribe anything to us damn the consequences. He should come again and explain what he meant because we cannot wrap our hands around it.

Ansah Owusu Koduah