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17.05.2017 Feature Article

Nonsense multiplied by another Generation

Nonsense multiplied by another Generation
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National Policy Summit held in the Accra International Conference Center of Ghana at the start of this week was once more a big blunder and bluff of a Government that had promised to the good citizens of Ghana a better life to come. Either the Minister of Finance or/and his accomplices know that their promises are not going to work but put them out for the sake to stay in power or are not blessed with the needed human intelligence to face the challenges of their Ministries and Politics in Ghana.

The basis of any National Identity Card system is a country with a complete coverage of street names and house numbering. After 60 years of civilization in Ghana, a task that is not difficult to undertake, is still in the process of completion. A National Identification Card has many benefits for the country as an entity, organizations like Banks and Courts as well as for the Individuals.

Setting up such a nationwide system requires immense upfront-investments that will only be recovered back step-by-step in a long process during which time the loan borrowed will increase the costs due to interest rates that need to be paid in addition to the loan given.

The intention of the new Administration to set up the new scheme is to widen the Tax payer net and make more citizen inclusive in contributing to the GRA revenues. The mentality of the Ghanaians is stubborn to the extent that is an illusion that when reducing the Tax rates more people would be willing to pay small amounts of Taxes to the Government. Ghanaians on a lover income level will do everything possible to avoid any Tax contribution at all cost and retrieving the outstanding moneys will be very costly and time consuming to the State that the possible gain will be eaten up by the cost and time involved.

August-September 2017 when starting the program is the time for free SHS Education while One-Factory, One-District promise is going on, two promises when not fulfilled to a minimum standard, will even inside the NPP raise drastic opposition against the Leadership. No matter what, it will be done knowing that the next Government when NDC flagged once again, will have to solve the problems caused and the shame will be put unto their shoulders like NDC is putting shame on the shoulders of the NPP for their mistakes done.

A Birth and Death Register gives a country a first insight into the situation of their citizen. It is easier done and financed at this stage of the country’s development to put emphasis on perfecting these two register.

In Germany when a new citizen is born, gets a Tax Number that will stay with the person a life-time and is used to identity that particular German in many different walks of life. Still, an Identification Card is issued with updated residence address based on Governmental traditions. USA uses One Social Security Number to achieve the same purpose.

Ghana as a card for Voters, a Card for NHIS, a Tax Payer number, a Passport number, a DVLA card number, a Payroll Number with the Government etc., while yet one number will do the ob and make the whole process and intended object much more efficient and money saving.

What took the developed countries years and Generations to develop and improve on, a developing country only needs simply to identify the state of the art processes of the most effective operating countries of the world by going online and copy them…that should not be a big problem! And yet it is as a Black Man has problems to learn, have an open mind, be flexible beyond old traditions and move forcefully into a better future.

African Leaders trained in the developed world, once back in their own countries, continually pursue the nonsense committed by their forefathers of the past with nice intellectual words from the present heard on international TV stations and followed in Western Universities…they hear, they see, they are taught, they know…but…they never understand! (Open gutters are not working, Mr. President and Litter Boxes in the public domain are not part of your Manifesto or Agenda! To raise a new Citizen 20 or more years and he/she falls serious ill or dies of Malaria/Cholera will not recover any money invested in him/her by the State…another Komenda Sugar Factory and White Elephant created? Ghana is not a Stephen King novel, it is a reality.)

It is by GOD’s grace when Prez. Nana Akufo-Addo does not have to see with his very own eyes the shame and disgrace that will come upon his name in History for what his NPP Government had embarked on when resting in time in perfect peace; and his people have to pick up the bits and pieces of destruction of yet another Generation of Ghanaians.

NB: A Society in which the Government is the main Stakeholder in citizen’s walk of life is destined to crash against a concrete wall.

Today newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron will make is 15 Minister Cabinet known to the public. Each will have a maximum of 2 Deputies bringing the whole numbers to a maximum of 45 working at the top level of his Administration. France is more than twice the population of Ghana (Ghana has 110 Ministers in all) with right now serious challenges to be addressed. To use words to describe African nonsense is a waste of time, only actions can make the trick.

Ghana/Africa is financially, mentally and spiritually bankrupt.

Author: Dipl.-Pol. Karl-Heinz Heerde, Sakumono, Tema West, Ghana, phone +233(0)265078287, [email protected] , 17.05.2017

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