Ghana needs national repentance not national cathedral - Dr. Stephen Takyi

A senior lecturer at the Planning Department of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Stephen Takyi says what Ghana needs now in the midst of an economic crisis national repentance, not a national cathedral is adding that we cannot build the nation with selfishness and hypocrisy. “What we need as a nation is total repentance because we need leaders endowed with the fear of God and want to serve the nation selflessly rather than to be served, it seems to me no one cares for others except his or her personal interest but we building a cathedral for God." “The voice of conscience must speak, we need leaders who will set the example in political truth and integrity; who by the quality and character of their life, will contribute towards the creation of a society which is likely to be conducive to integrity by insisting that their leaders at all levels are men and women of honour.” Speaking on OTEC 102.9 FM's morning show "Nyansapo" on Tuesday, October 25, 2022, Dr. Takyi described as worrying, what he says is the increasing incidence of selfishness exhibited by public officeholders with impunity. Dr. Takyi indicated that "we live in a country where politicians, men of God, Imams, soldiers, police, lawyers, journalists, lecturers, chiefs, etc are seeking selfish interests and also amassing wealth wrongly while portraying as saints". The Department Planner said the slow pace of the country’s development can only be blamed on such a tendency since He is worried it has become common to find Ghanaian leaders amassing wealth and allocating public resources for themselves at the expense of the good of the people in the society. “To reverse this trend, we need to be truthful to ourselves, education system must train leaders to educate pupils and people in general on how to be selfless leaders and servants to each other,” he said. Touching on Ghana’s political system, Dr. Takyi said “we can’t develop this country with this political system, our political system is a failed system and until we fix this defective political system we will continue to go to IMF year after year”. “The democracy we are running isn’t productive and development-oriented democracy, a country where we appoint political communicators who can insult political opponents and elderly are appointed to some top and strategic positions ahead of competencies, and you call this democracy? Dr. Takyi quizzed.