Ways of sustaining development in Ghana.

Ghanaians have developed negative attitude toward sustaining national development which has tend slowing development and growth in the country. We've left our pot unwatched and now our food burns. Sustainable development is the way of ensuring that development projects are kept functioning effectively for a longer time.

“Maintenance culture” in Ghana is very appalling. Ghanaians attitude toward repairing and servicing facilities when damage is not good which leads to further Detroit the facility causing extra cost in replacing them. Our attitude toward postponing should also be changed.

Apathy on behalf of others toward other people and public items should be changed. We sometimes see burst pipes and don't care about them yet we complain when taps are manipulated. We spoil school textbooks, furniture and steal electrical cables. People think those things are not their own don't care about them.

Use of quality material by producers in the production of materials should be encouraged in Ghana. Since most of the items made in the country are made by low quality materials most don't last long.

Proper planning and coordination should be carried before projects are executed. Most of the projects in the country do not last due to improper research and feasibility study. For example; the processing factory in Bawjiase is not functioning due to lack of materials (cassava) to feed the factory. This should have not happened if proper planning was undertaken.

Ghanaians should be educated on the needs to sustain development in order to change our attitude toward sustaining development in the country. Ghana can only grow and develop when our development projects are effectively sustained. My teacher usually says “ if you say education is expensive, try ignorance”.

Credit: Amoadu Baah Amoadu(amoadu_jnr@yahoo.com)

The writer is a form student of the Ebenezer Senior High School-Accra.

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