Ghana is governed by people “who know next nothing”, this is according to a former president of the Ghana Bar Association, Mr Sam Okudzeto. He attributed this to the severe partisanship that exists in the country currently.
He was reacting to 2015 IEA survey report which indicated that unemployment, erratic power supply (Dumsor) and poverty are the three core issues of great importance to Ghanaians ahead of the 2016 elections.
Sam Okudzeto , Former President of the Ghana Bar Association
He was reacting to 2015 IEA survey report which indicated that unemployment, erratic power supply (Dumsor) and poverty are the three core issues of great importance to Ghanaians ahead of the 2016 elections.
Speaking on Accra-based Class FM Okudzeto said “the country is full of very brilliant, intelligent people [but] we have sidelined them, we have pushed all of them to the side and then you have individuals who know next to nothing wielding power, showing power, and the rest of us are suffering. I think it’s about time that Ghanaians sit up.”
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He questioned why a greater number of people would not be concerned about unemployment and poverty when public officials cruise in V8 SUV also fuelled with the taxpayers money.
“Part of the problem that we are suffering from in this country now is because of the parties. They come into power; many of them you see are riding in V8 in Accra. Where are they going in V8 cars? Do you know the amount of petrol these cars consume? You will be shocked that that can provide a school block for a small village, and that is one person using it for a month. The petrol one person uses for the month can provide a school block for a community”, he stated.
Sam Okudzeto blamed the weak governance system on the centralisation of authority and called for the full implementation of the decentralisation policy.
“Excessive power that has been centralised, whereby one person virtually has power to dismiss everybody and appoint everybody, and we kept repeating it that it was a wrong approach to governance, but even if it is the constitution, you can still go behind it and say, ‘Let’s sit down and discuss the issue because this is national. What solutions can we provide for it?’, and then we can all put our heads together”.
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He finally said Ghanaians needed an overhaul of the governance system to kerb the hardships facing the masses.
