Govts must continue good works started by their predecessors

Bolgatanga, Sept. 7, GNA - Professor Samuel Kwasi Adjepong, Chairman of the National Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Governing Council, on Thursday condemned the situation where succeeding governments abandon the good works started by their predecessors on mere political grounds.

Professor Adjepong stated that abandoning such projects was one of the major causes of underdevelopment in Africa and urged political leaders to put a stop to it in order to pave way for development. "African Countries cannot make any significant improvement in development, if new governments continue to shun uncompleted projects initiated by their predecessors because of different political ideology."

Professor Adjepong was speaking at a one-day workshop organized by the Governing Council of APRM in Bolgatanga. He urged District Assemblies in the Upper East to make uninterrupted electricity supply one of the top priorities of their development agenda to enable students and pupils to benefit from the President's Special Initiative (PSI) on Distance Learning educational programme.

Professor Adjepong appealed to the organizers of the PSI on Distance Learning programme to telecast it at the appropriate time when students and pupils were at home to view it. Participants were drawn from the Government, Non-Governmental, and the Private Sectors.

They were taken through topics such as Socio-Economic Governance, Corporate Governance, Economic Governance and Management, Democracy and Good Political Governance and the Relevance of the Report on Development Concerning the three Northern Regions.