Government Asked To Reduce
Dependency on External Partners
Ho, Dec. 8, GNA- Mr. Francis Appiah, Executive
Secretary of the National Africa Peer Review
Mechanism-Governing Council (NAPRM-GC) on Friday
underscored the need for government to reduce
its dependency on external partners.
He said this was because its continual
dependency
on outsiders affects the country's economic
progression.
Mr Appiah said this at a day's sensitization
workshop organized by the NAPRM-GC for the Volta
Region House of Chiefs in Ho.
It was to present the NAPRM-GC report to the
House and solicit its support for the
implementation of the report.
Mr. Appiah observed with regret that over half
of government's developmental expenditure was
externally funded.
He said the unfortunate situation plays down on
the country's international image and dignity
even as the government tended to beg "those
partners" to deliver on their promises.
Mr. Appiah said though the country was making
progress in achieving the Millennium Development
Goals certain policy measures still needed to be
adopted to elicit broad based participation and
deepen the country's decentralization process.
Mr. Samuel Cudjoe, Principal Programme Officer,
NAPRM-GC, said it was unfortunate that the
country's economic reform failed to reflect in
the pocket of Ghanaians.
He observed that the favourable economic
environment was only benefiting foreign
investors at the expense of local businessmen.
That, he said accounted for the inability of the
poor to move out of poverty and called for an
improved public service delivery to the local
private sector.
GNA
