An Executive Vice President of Unilever UK, Yaw Nsarkoh, has lamented the poor state of the country and its economy, saying, the 4th Republic has not delivered the required development.
According to him, the country’s lack of development is due to a stark failure of thinking and execution of policy.
Speaking to the Executive Management of Multimedia Group, the astute corporate leader said the current state of the country is not good and has failed to deliver the development dividend.
“We are not in a good place, the 4th Republican democracy has not delivered the expected development. This in my view is as a result of the stark failure of thinking and execution of policy plus an abject failure of imagination”.
“We are in a bad place. I’ve actually said we are not in a good place and let’s call it what it is”, he added.
To him, with inflation at a record high and the sovereign default facing the country, the picture does not look good, but hope is not lost.
“Inflation is at 54% and we are experiencing a sovereign default. Everywhere you go, there are haircuts and such gloomy terminology being tossed around. Open defecation in my view is one of the demeaning circumstances you can experience anywhere in the world”.
Mr. Nsarkoh also expressed worry that about 20% of the population are living in kiosk and containers, according to the 2021 Population and Housing Census.
He added “in a country where people do not have enough food to eat, we have terrifying levels of post-harvest losses in agriculture. For example, 45% of all cassava planted in Ghana is never even uprooted. So having said a few comments on Ghana, I would like to establish as a parameter that we have become what I call a ‘Robinson Crusoe’ society. By that I mean, there’s a collapse of noble values and ethics”.
He called for an honest conversation among all stakeholders to find a lasting solution to this canker
He added “we need the media to take its rightful place and civil society in the struggle for a better tomorrow. If you do so like my favorite writer, good old James Bolden says we may all one day be able to look back and say of this critical time in our history that ‘the very time I taught I was lost my dungeon shook and my chains fell off’.
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