After several criticisms rained on him for proposing a ten year development plan to transform Ghana’s economy if elected President in 2012, flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akuffo-Addo has found approval from Economist, Political and Social Policy Analyst, Dr. Theophilus Richardson.
Dr. Richardson who is an Economics Science lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, said although Nana should be commended for the proposal, there is the need to put in place good strategies for it to be implemented.
He added that in implementing such laudable plan the agricultural sector should be revamped into mechanical agriculture.
Nana Addo outdoored a development blue-print plan modeled alongside the Brazilian and Taiwanese experience of aggressive industrialization.
Nana Addo opined Ghana must wipe out the colonial ‘Guggisberg economy’ in which raw materials are gleefully exported out of the country for peanuts and adopt a more refined and perhaps a “Nana-Addo economy” of adding value to our products.
Like Nana Addo, Dr. Richardson is convinced with “Dedication, Discipline and Determination” Ghana can within a period of 10 years of sustained industrialization, transform into a developed country.
The Economics lecturer called for the remodeling of Dr. Nkrumah’s development plans to propel Ghana into economic independence.
He however cautioned that Ghanaians must unite and support laudable ideas that come from countrymen rather than reading politics into every issue.
He expressed optimism that Ghana can achieve development in the not too distant future when a well laid out plan is implemented with determination.
Story: Maame Esi Nyamekye Thompson
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