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18 Ghana-Centered Marching
Orders for Serious Akufo-Addo!
By: Prof
Lungu
Dec 23, 2016
However you slice and dice it, on numerous occasions and
through various media, you can bet your bottom cedi we did our
best to forewarn Fallen Mr. Mahama and his vice President, Kwesi
Bekoe Amissah Arthur. We warned them that breaking rules of
nepotism and cutting corrupt deals with their kith and kin and
foreign corporations is no appropriate or defensible way to
govern Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana.
Nor, is lack of attention
to a whole set of policy matters, 18, by our latest reckon!
To the point, among areas of policy Fallen Mahama and his
NDC party screwed up and for which Serious Akufo-Addo and his
new administration must focus like a laser beam and repair,
these 18 agenda items have actual, immediate, and symbolic
significance, if the NPP government under Nana Akufo-Addo Dankwa
wants the People to take them at their own word(s) and $1
million per constituency per year promises:
(1) Ensure
that from Day One, the Adansi-Asokwa MP Kobina Tahir "Hybrid"
Hammond speaks only for himself and the people in that
constituency who returned him to parliament
(2) Tear down
the warts-infested Rawlingsian Constitution and rebuild the
Constitution utilizing work product(s) already funded and paid
for by Ghanaians as tax payers, in the name of the People of
Ghana themselves who are the Sovereign.
(3) Pass the
"Freedom of Information (FOI) bill, with an Independent
Commissioner; promote transparency in government, understanding
that "Right to Information" (RTI) is for very weak people and
tyrants like Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe).
(4) Immediately
publish a list of all transportation projects and their state of
completion, including those for airport and railway
infrastructure development; prioritize them transparently
according to their importance to Ghana's national development,
and complete them accordingly. (But by all means, swiftly
complete the Accra-Kumasi highway project and investigate use of
funds, reasons for all the untoward delay, and consequences)
(5) Immediately sack newly-appointed NDC Commissioner for
CHRAJ, and/or swiftly contest appointment in Supreme Court with
the best legal brains Ghana has, if necessary
(6)
Immediately abrogate Act 619, that fraudulent and predatory 419
oil exploration and production contract scheme on Ghana; review
all contracts on petroleum and gas exploration/production;
ensure Ghana receives no less than 50% of all oil revenues
consistent with global standard Production Sharing Agreement
(PSA), the US GAO recommended contract system for sovereign oil
(7) Implement a super-effective alternative and
sustainable power generation program for residential and
institutional uses to allow adequate reserve power for industry
and export, potentially
(8) Promote science education
and culture, Singapore-style, where teachers, instructors, and
administrators are evaluated based on their understanding of
science and nature and their importance in the actual lives of
Ghanaians in all cities, towns, and villages.
(9)
Identify tourism development and infrastructure, including
sanitation, as high priority and integrate "Brand Ghana" under
that auspices; ensure Diaspora become crucial voices for Ghana
all over the world under the program(s).
(10) Mandate
Ghana Police Service, the National Road Safety Commission
(NRSC), and the Transportation minister to provide within 3
months a credible plan on traffic safety administration that
measurably reduces the carnage, maiming, and destruction of life
and property on roads in Ghana, year-by-year, data-point by
data-point
(11) Improve public management and civil
service professionalism, including presidential staff, and
ensure all have adequate training with respect to law and
ethical requirements, including non-partisanship while on duty.
(12) Ensure improved health administration and
control/management of diseases, including cholera, knowing that
these have huge impact on Brand-Ghana and tourism; ensure recent
loose talk by irresponsible officials that AIDS is now
adequately under control is nipped in the bud, until Ghana is
able to cheaply produce in Ghana, a vaccine for AIDS
(13)
Review drug policy and sentencing, especially with respect to
cannabis, consistent with immoral history of drug policy and
administration in the West (in the United States in particular),
current scientific knowledge, the dignity of individuals and
families, cost to government and tax payers, and current
practices by responsible governments all over the world
(14) Employing lessons already learned at tax payer expense,
implement an executive-directed national development planning
effort that produces coherent, coordinated, comprehensive,
time-limited planning products that leverage non-proprietary,
common, off-the-shelf products to support development at the
district-regional levels.
(15) Resource and
force-multiply the capabilities of emergency management in
Ghana, paying acute attention to coastal zones, areas where
oil/gas is being explored/produced, impact of desertification in
the northern zones
(16) Ensure technical and science
education systems produce teachers and facilitators with
requisite skills and interest in teaching technical skills,
trades, and life-skills development for youths, with no less
than 55% of resources on girls and women
(17) Implement a
coordinated, secure, effective Diaspora outreach by assigning
shared responsibility to Tourism and the Foreign Affairs
ministries
(18) Provide a national forest resources and
habitat preservation plan for job creation, economic
empowerment, and as a climate adaptation strategy, from each
Constituency to each Region, to the National level; tie
execution of the major promises made to Ghanaians to those
efforts and enable severe auditing and transparency at every
level and stage; avoid waste of national resources.
Bottom-line: Absolutely, surely, it is time to stop all that
Fallen-Mahama Monkey-Dey-Work, AMissah Attas-Dey-Chop business!
Again, coming soon to these same pages: Best of Prof Lungu (BoPL)!
Mark that one down!
So it goes, Ghana!
SOURCES/NOTES
Yakoema.net. Ghana loses six persons daily
through road crashes
https://yakoema.net/2016/11/21/ghana-loses-six-persons-daily-road-crashes/
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