If The NDC Is Ever To Return To Power Again A New Breed Of Servant-Leader-Types Must Take Control Of The Party

It is vital, if our democracy is to survive and thrive, that opposition parties offer effective and creative alternatives, to the policies of governments of the day. That is what the national interest demands of them. In light of that, the more responsible sections of the Ghanaian media ought to encourage the National Democratic Congress (NDC), in particular, and the other smaller opposition parties generally, to focus on policy formulation instead of pointless grandstanding designed to embarrass the current administration. That won't take them anywhere, alas.

As the nation's largest opposition party, what Mother Ghana needs is a strong NDC run by servant-leader types who are incorruptible and can offer creative thought-leadership underpinned by an unwavering commitment to all the 17 UN Sustainable Develiopment Goals (UN SDGs). That is precisely what our country desperately needs at this juncture of its history - particularly when the wealthy crooks running small-scale gold mining companies, whose unfathomable greed is jeopardising the well-being of future generations of our people and the very existence of our nation, are making inroads in their hyper-lobbying efforts: in their quest to be allowed to resume their brutal gang-rape of Mother Nature again.

It is a relief to those of us who have advocated for the NDC to focus on empowering ordinary people in Ghana's base-of-the-pyramid demographic whiles in the political wilderness, to enable such people to bootstrap their way out of the debilitating poverty-trap, to hear that the party has plans to do so. For the information of its present leadership, one of the most effective means of empowering struggling Ghanaians is to set up social enteprises in the 31st December Women's Movement mould - some of which could set up an online ecommerce platform (#Hand-Made-In-Ghana, would make a great brand name, would it not?).

By making it possible for micro-entrepreneurs across Ghana - such as dressmakers, sundry handicraft makers including those who make traditional style beads, talking drums, straw hats and baskets, fugus, etc., etc. - to set up virtual shops on that digital platform and charge them small commissions on their sales, would that NDC-founded ecommerce platform not enable hundreds of thousands of micro-entrepreneurs nationwide to create wealth for themselves? And would that not help the party to rebuild and enhance its now badly-damaged brand? Haaba.

And if it partners the U.S.-based Codecademy to teach youth from deprived inner city areas such as Nima and Sukura to code, could that not be the first step on the road to eventual success in the IT world for such marginalised young people? And if the NDC consults the world-famous agricultural extension expert, Roland Bunch, author of Two Ears of Corn and Restoring the Soil, they can help empower rural people by teaching them regenerative agricultural methods that will boost their incomes considerably, and earn the party their eternal gratitude.

Above all, if the NDC is ever to return to power again, a new breed of incorruptible servant-leader-types must take control of the party and focus on collaborating with Progressives from across the globe, who are original thinkers, to develop suitable policies that will redound to the benefit of ordinary people and improve their standard of living as well as add to their quality of life - such as Emeritus Professor Bill Mitchell, who is a Chair in Economics, Director of the Centre of Full Employment, and a senior lecturer at the University of Newcastle Department of Economics, Australia. Food for thought for the party's current bigwigs, perhaps? Hmm, eyeasem o - asem kesie ebeba debi ankasa.