No future prosperity for raw material producing & exporting countries – Akufo-Addo

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• G. K. Berko 7 years ago

  Where were you, then, when your political forebears idiotically declared our Manufacturing Factories by the First Republican Government 'Prestigious Projects'?
  
  The NLM/UP leaders were the advocates to have our Factories cl ...
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  Where were you, then, when your political forebears idiotically declared our Manufacturing Factories by the First Republican Government 'Prestigious Projects'?
  
  The NLM/UP leaders were the advocates to have our Factories closed, abandoned and/or sold off to short-sighted pseudo-Entrepreneurs who only wanted to make the most profit out of them in the shortest possible time and abandon them.
  
  Now, you realize how myopic you guys were to the detriment of the Nation. I hope you would boldly concede your hateful mistakes and toss a stone to Nkrumah posthumously to vindicate his policy to have Ghana industrialized that early.
  
  There is little doubt that the policy of the 'Matemeho' power seekers who vigorously pursued the crash of our Manufacturing base heeded to the destructive advice of their foreign collaborators who wanted us to stay supplying their home Factories our Raw Materials for almost nothing.
  
  While those foreign Nations by such trickery ensured their Factories continued to be a vibrant source of employment to their Citizens, beside enjoying the advantage of selling finished goods to us at their own chosen prices, not even at the call of the Markets, our employees at the Factories had to go without jobs for losing those Factories. And we had to preponderantly apply our Foreign reserves to importing basic goods most of which our Factories could have supplied us at home.
  
  How dumb and suicidal those policies of the UP/NLM ideologues were!! All for political expediency? And attempts to obliterate anything that could be said to be Nkrumah's positive legacy?
  
  When Nkrumah died he did not take the Factories with him. And yet we ended up being a net importer of the basic items we had begun to manufacture ourselves at home. This narrative is not necessarily an endorsement of Nkrumahism. Rather, it is a genuine critique of what the foolish blinding partisanship and hatred could cost us as a Nation.
  
  Long Live Ghana!!!

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• Bobo 7 years ago

  Adding value means creating room for innovation opportunity and the creation of jobs for our youths. Job creation is where Ghana lacks and only think of white colour jobs as the mean thing to look forward to. Forgetting that ...
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  Adding value means creating room for innovation opportunity and the creation of jobs for our youths. Job creation is where Ghana lacks and only think of white colour jobs as the mean thing to look forward to. Forgetting that rather adding value to our cocoa products would create from Ghana rather than allowing these valuable raw products to go to Switzerland and get their coca factory flourishing and we in tend end up taking donation as a poverty stricken country needing financial donation and mercy. Who is growing cocoa in Switzerland ? Why is the cocoa farmer suffering with their children not even attending top schools and knowing the value of what added value means to their cocoa power. Why should a Ghanaian farmer slave himself or her self away with their children for a company Outside Ghana to come/walk in and buy the end products of cocoa on the cheap while they take them to their country add value and sell at top prices in top hotels, supermarket etc etc. Why?Who is fooling who or who is so naive that they can't even add their sums in what makes a country prosperous. The key is adding value to everything we do and sell them top prices is the secret of remaining on the top for years. Innovation and marketing techniques are the clue.

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• Bobo 7 years ago

  Buy Ghanaians products if you want to remain friends with Ghana should be slogan of the day.

  Buy Ghanaians products if you want to remain friends with Ghana should be slogan of the day.

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