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Business magnate and economist Dr Kofi Amoah has descended heavily on the country\u2019s political leadership, chastising them for looting the public purse instead of creating the enabling environment for jobs.<\/p>\n
He insists that without jobs, policies like digitalization as trumpeted by the current administration will be a means to no end.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs much as DIGITALIZATION is presented as a spoke in the wheel of development, it\u2019s an expensive joke,\u201d wrote Citizen Kofi, as he is popularly known, on Friday, January 12.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s crazy to build an expensive payment police system in a bankrupt country where majority of the people have no payments coming to them because they have no JOBS!\u201d<\/p>\n
He was replying to a post on X, formerly Twitter, by Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia about the launch of a digital solution to eliminate \u2018ghost\u2019 names from government payroll.<\/p>\n
Dr Kofi Amoah says there are a lot of \u2018walking ghosts\u2019 whose plight have been as a result of policies of the current government.<\/p>\n
Find the full reply below:<\/p>\n
THERE ARE LOTS OF \u201cWALKING GHOSTS\u201d IN GHANA \u2026<\/p>\n
The corruption and joblessness programs of the npp have \u201cdrained\u201dtheir lives away\u2026<\/p>\n
As much as DIGITALIZATION is presented as a spoke in the wheel of development, it\u2019s an expensive joke!!<\/p>\n
It\u2019s crazy to build an expensive payment police system in a bankrupt country where majority of the people have no payments coming to them because they have no JOBS!<\/p>\n
This can only become necessary when the corrupt practices of a nation\u2019s political elite has become an entrenched culture that has seeped into the fabric of society<\/p>\n
The cost of eliminating the npp-type of corruption is huge and requires a never-ending and expensive series of remedies, with the potential of each remedy also requiring its own policing digital portal at some point<\/p>\n
Digitalization in a bankrupt
jobs-starved country is like building a bridge to nowhere<\/p>\n
Let our political leadership set good examples by not looting the public purse and using the money to create JOBS for the people<\/p>\n
Our ears have been hurting with sermons on digitalization for too long whilst corruption and unemployment rage on<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s get our priorities properly aligned to serve the burning needs of Ghanaians \u2026 JOBS<\/p>\n
Good-paying JOBS pls!<\/p>\n
@MBawumia<\/p>\n
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