The struggle for economic freedom shouldn’t be reduced to catchphrases like ‘Ghana beyond aid’ or merely become rhetoric in speeches during Independence Day events. We expect the NDC government to adopt tangible actions backed by a straightforward plan for the country to pursue. A strategy that the nation can evaluate at regular intervals to determine our current standing as a nation. The interests of Ghanaian citizens should be the top priority for the NDC government, as they are far more interested in improving their declining living conditions and ensuring safety, rather than simply generating catchphrases and empty talk.
Currently, the nation is importing a huge quantity of staple food products that could be grown in Ghana, leading to a rise in living expenses and harming Ghana’s food security. What our neighbours have done, we can also do, if Niger and Burkina Faso could produce mass onions and tomatoes to feed Ghana, we are also capable of growing staple food products for Ghana and whole of West Africa.
As we compose this, most of Ghana experiences darkness after 6 PM due to the lack of streetlights in all cities and crippling energy costs.
The CPP expects the NDC administration to launch a solar assembly plant to promote economic autonomy, improve citizen’s quality of life by generating jobs, and tackle a multitude of national issues, which would, in turn, reduce energy costs for governmental bodies, enterprises, and families. We urge the government to think long term and not to import solar street lings as we have been made aware.
Our estimate suggests that a large-scale solar assembly plant or facility would cost between 5 million US dollars and 20 million dollars. In the scheme of things, this is not a huge amount of money for the government. The NPP government invested over $58 million in the non-existing national cathedral by 2022, with about half of it going to an architectural firm.
The CPP urges the NDC government to concentrate on implementing policies that will drive the country towards economic independence and regain its sovereignty, instead of prioritizing the Hajj Village over job creation and coming up with rhetoric and slogans like the previous NPP administration.
Think Ghana, think CPP.
Author Kwame Nkrumah Agyapong (KNA)
