Forward March Or Backward March, Whither Goes Ghana?

Over the period 2001-2008, Ghana made some modest but steady strides.

Some of these strides were:
1. National Youth Employment Program
2. Millenium Challenge Account
3. National Health Insurance Scheme
4. Single Spine Salary System
5. School Feeding Program
6. Automating Fast Track Courts
7. Capitation Grant
8. Creating Commercial Courts
9. Free Maternal Care
10. Expansion of Energy Capacity -e.g Bui Dam
11. Metro Mass Transport
12. Refocusing of GNPC's Mandate - Oil Discovery
13. Free Metro Mass Ride for children
14. Stadia - Tamale, Sekondi, Kumasi, Accra
15. Cocoa sector policies
16. Repeal of the Criminal Libel Law
17. Debt Relief from the HIPC Initiative
18. Public Procurement Act
19. Bank of Ghana Act 2002
20. Internal Audit Act
21. Universal Banking
22. National Identification Authority
23. MASLOC
24. Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP)
25. Presidential Palace
26. A successful re-denomination of the cedi
27. First debut onto the FIFA World Cup Stage and the successful hosting of CAN 2008.

These were modest achievements. However considering that the period 2001-2008 begun from the depths of HIPC, it is little wonder that some have described the above list of achievements as spectacular.

Then came the promise from the NDC in 2009 of a so-called “Better Ghana Agenda”.

Six years on since the start of the “Better Ghana Agenda” and on the eve of Ghana's 58th Independence Anniversary, the questions are:

(1) Was the Better Ghana Agenda a hope or a hoax?
(2) Has the Better Ghana Agenda indeed been better or it has been bitter?

Perhaps, the answer lies in the words of a new song in town: “Ghana adane Naija” to wit Ghana has now become like Nigeria.

NPP Canada Communications Team. [email protected]/647-800-3585