On Ghana Diaspora TALK! TALK! TALK!

Some younger friends are excited about Ghana just as we all older ones are. However, time passes bye every year, every decade, and humans get old and tired of repetitions by our leaders that never end up with the serious business of human resource recruitment and capital investment.

A friend sent me a link about the Ghana Diaspora Website, excited for me to sign up. I ask myself some questions!! Are we real as a nation? It reminds me of a search on the Website of the CSIR /CRI- Crop Research Institute, where I could not find any new research or development work in introducing even a handful of new cash crops Ghanaians consume, such as apples, grapes, melons, berries and almonds that are billion dollar consumer crops Ghana can consume and export. There are more than 140 cash crops of fruits, vegetable and other Agricultural products produced in California where this writer lives. The Agricultural industry in California is more than $700 billion! Here's my response to share with readers on other forums and media.

I have scanned through the Website
ghanaiandiaspora.com ,
and read some things about conferences and Awards and speeches and donations by Diaspora medical and other professional groups in Germany, North America. They are all nice,, but I still don't see the

MISSION STATEMENT,
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES!
And
That means it is still an idea being discussed with no set Objectives and yardstick of performance and accomplishments.

There were even speeches and activities in 2014! So what do we as a nation and a people want from the Ghana Diaspora? Do we see them as Human Resources to be deployed in the equation of development, or we expect these students we sent overseas to acquire knowledge, to perform and be accomplished, and possibly be rich enough, and all of a sudden move their base to Ghana? Is that real?

Those in power in Government leadership and even our Universities and civil service created the mental barrier of envy and jealousy! And until there is a real Love and welcome, with Goals set like I saw done by nations like Taiwan and Singapore to attract their qualified native personnel from the US in the 1980s, this Ghana /African utterances is nothing short of TALK and mere talk! It is like what one SC Justice called "Useless utterances of Politicians"!

I have some projects to complete else I would spell out a few things in detail. You have men like these Honorees, some of them reputed to be Billionaires and millionaires aware that Ghana

- does not have Libraries for children to read?
- does not have Wi-Fi for Internet within the reach of most people?

- does not have underground sewage system, but the same old OPEN GUTTERS known to choke and stagnant water breed mosquitoes that cause malaria with deaths estimated at over 100,000 per year!

- does not, in over 12 years since ROPAA was passed, make it possible or feasible for Ghanaians overseas to vote in Ghana elections!

- does not make it possible for ideas of value to be presented to government. Example: Ghana Leadership Union submitted a proposal for a meeting with the Parliamentary Speaker on CLEAN-GHANA. It was never even acknowledged and it's about 2 years now!

- in addition a Proposal by GLU to the Ghana Revenue Authority to ask questions and help them in the right strategies and methods for Revenue mobilization was never acknowledged!

So please help me find what the CORE MISSION of this DIASPORA UTTERANCES is all about!! I don't expect these celebrities to donate money to fix all of Ghana's problems; but what influence did they make on the people with power? None! Absolutely none! Sam Jonah lives in Ghana, doesn't he? How many of some modern ideas has government solicited from him to implement for the nation except perhaps campaign contributions!

It is all TALK!! Talk! TALK!! And perhaps a way for some more Government officials to be presented with Vehicles and allowances!

Thank you!
Dr. K. Danso Apr.4, 2018
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