Develop Infrastructure And Economy Will Grow Mr. President

President John Dramani Mahama

When some Ghanaians talk about growing the economy of Ghana, when they scream that governments know nothing about growing the economy, when they quote uncountable books on micro and macroeconomics, I laugh and laugh until tears start coming out of my eyes.

Now, why do I laugh? Yes, I laugh because we have not done what needs to be done to grow the economy of Ghana.

I laugh because we have not laid the real foundation for the real economic growth. We have been very busy for years chasing shadows and playing politics of the stomach while the world is leaving us behind.

Our leaders either by acts of omission or commission have forgotten that you cannot make omelette without breaking eggs.

Every sensible person knows that he cannot try to travel to America or UK without a Visa and a traveling Passport.

You cannot grow your economy on nothing. You must pay the price. You must develop your infrastructure first, and every other thing shall be added unto you.

The above tells a big story of where the rains started beating us since 1992. Civil Servants and political appointees in government agencies have pocketed millions that would have been used to develop our roads, our schools, hospitals, airports, transportation, security, agriculture, manpower, power sector, tourism, petroleum sector in the twenty four years.

If Ghana had invested wisely in the past twenty four years, Ghana would have been a world destination today.

Today those who have stolen the nation dry and even stolen what they do not need are the fools telling us about the economy and how one dollar now sells for GHS 4.00 under Mahama. They are those yawning GDP and Inflation as if Governance is GDP. To those cabal, I said unto them, Governance is simply Leadership.

The Freddie Blay’s and the other thieves who brought their party to its knees through actions and deeds are the ones giving us lectures on good governance and economy.

They should now shut up and allow President Mahama to begin to lay the foundation for the growth of the real economy and not the voodoo economy and the fraudulent so-called transformational economy of Ghana mantra.

They are liars from the pit of hell. Their narratives are simply pathetic. They are simply economic saboteurs.

The pathetic fraudsters should ask why Dubai continues to commission new power stations as their economy grows. Why is Dubai building the biggest Airport in the world? Why is Dubai building the biggest and the best Hospital in the world? Why is everybody going to Dubai today? What is pushing families in Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, America, etc. troupe to Dubai every other day? Have you seen their roads, airports, malls, schools, markets, housing estates, security architecture, hospitality, transport architecture and tourism just to mention but a few of them?

Why is Indonesia paying China 5 billion U.S. dollars to build a 150 km high-speed rail project? Why did Norway spend billions of dollars to bore through a mountain just to create a 28-kilometer road just to link another city? Why is Turkey spending billions of dollars to build an undersea highway to connect to Russia? Why did the UK spend millions of pounds to build the first undersea highway in the city of London few years back?

Have you read about China recently to see how much they are investing in infrastructure development to meet the demands of the 21st Century? Have you idea of the transportation system in Japan?

Have you seen the decay in our airports, our roads, our hospitals, our schools, and other critical institutions?

If Ghana had invested heavily in the areas of infrastructure development in the past, things would have been different today. The dollars were frittered and stashed away by Ghana's thieving elites and their cronies.

Go to Dubai, U.S.A, UK, Canada, etc. and see where the miserable idiots took our money to. These are the shenanigans who are telling us cedi/ dollar relationship. These are the common criminals who educate us about the economy.

These are the ' experts' who lecture us about the economy these days. They should hide their faces in shame and allow President Mahama to clear the Augean Stable they left behind.

They should bury their heads in the sands and know that those who created yesterday's pains will not be the ones to rebuild or country tomorrow's potentials.

They are worse than armed robbers. They left thousands of Ghanaians dead as a result of rapacious greed and political irresponsibility.

Throwing your frustrations and annoyance on President Mahama for winning the 2012 elections will not help matters.

Hitting your heads against the wall because feeding bottles were forcefully taken away from your mouths will not help either. What will help Ghana now is that those who destroyed Ghana should just keep quiet and allow President Mahama to do the needful by changing the way we think, the way we reason, the way we do our jobs and the way we perceive the project Ghana.

The good for nothing Wailers may not see anything good in Mahama's monumental display of courage and political sagacity in dealing with those who stole everything in sight, but the man is getting it right.

President Mahama is laying a new foundation in Ghana not based on corruption and impunity but hard work, integrity, honesty and character.

President Mahama was elected to do what he is doing now in Ghana, and woe betides anybody who cannot see what is going on today. Woe betides anybody who thinks President Mahama is not building the economy of Ghana.

His Excellency the President, please do not listen to them. If you reduce corruption by 50%, the money that would have gone into private pockets would have been released for infrastructure development which wills kick start the real growth of our economy.

The money that we need to develop this country is in private pockets. We need to take it by force if need be, and I know that Mahama will not be cowed in doing so.

Now my advice to the President: collect all the stolen funds and invest it in infrastructure development.

Plug all the loopholes and leakages and invest the proceeds in infrastructure development. This is the way to go. Anybody who thinks we need a magic to grow Ghana's economy cannot get it.

That person may still be living in the past. He may be trying to solve a 21st Century problem with 10th Century solution.