Let’s think about our nation, our continent Africa and and future!
Every educated person knows today we depend too much on Western systems – Banking, Software & Financial systems/Platforms, Travel/transportation systems, Vehicles and equipment/ machinery!
Maybe we have some African airlines we can rely on and some ships dedicated to our issues- but are they enough?
President Mahama should seriously think about these for his 24-HOUR Economic Model!
Ghana has:
1. TOO Much IMPORT-RELIANCE on some basic foods and materials that we could produce ourselves and just needs a leadership push!
Examples are Tomatoes and Tomato Paste import- $2 Billion per year is too much!
2. Too MANY SECRET AGREEMENTS with foreigners on our gold, diamonds, managanese, bauxite, iron, Lithium and oil!
This should be in the open and we should change the corrupted contracts that sold our nation out to foreigners!
3. Too LITTLE CAPITAL Investment in Manufacturing.
Ghana should set aside some capital to loan out to entrepreneurs for the Manufacturing of basic needs (paper, platics, foods, essential basic chemicals and drugs) since these Joint Ventures will work better than state-owned enterprises where our executives have none of their own moneys!
The haters of Nkrumah must be happy the last 55-59 years! Buy today can they really feel happy when we have to fly our sick Vice Presidents to Europe and pay $120-200,000 in private jet flights?
Are our leaders thinking straight when the budget deficit is made worse as they order and ride in luxury vehicles that could be made in Ghana? Or when they allocate and waste $58 million for personal pet cathedrals, waste $600 million on Housing that never get completed, or spend $120,000 on private jet travel as if they are super-human and as they spend moneys collected by us mere humans!
Are the leaders happy when networks, water or power fluctuations force closure of or run down small restaurants or hospitality businesses because of lack of needed extra capital for equipment upgrades, for water and power instabilities, and lack of or poor planning for water and some basics?
Global was drums are sounding my dear friends. Let’s think about our survival!
Dr. Kwaku A. Danso- Jun. 20,2025
