After several criticisms rained on him since proposing a ten year development plan to transform Ghana’s economy if elected President in 2012, flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party(NPP) Nana Akuffo Addo has gotten an approval from economist and political analyst, Dr. Theophilus Richardson. Dr. Richardson who is an economic science lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, said although Nana should be commended for the proposal, there is the need to put in place good strategies for it to be implemented. He added that in implementing such a laudable plan the agricultural sector should be revamped into mechanical agriculture. Nana Addo outdoored a development plan modeled along the Brazilian and Taiwanese experience of aggressive industrialization. Nana Addo opined Ghana must wipe out the colonial "Guggisberg economy’ in which raw materials are gleefully exported out of the country for peanuts and adopt a more refined and perhaps a "Nana-Addo economy" of adding value to our products. Dr. Richardson is convinced with “Dedication, Discipline and Determination” Ghana can be transformed, within a period of 10 years of sustained industrialization, into a developed country. The economics lecturer called for the remodeling of Dr. Nkrumah’s development plans to propel Ghana into economic independence. He however cautioned that Ghanaians must unite and support laudable ideas that come from countrymen rather than reading politics into every issue. He expressed optimism that Ghana can achieve development in the not too distant future when a well laid out plan is implemented with determination. Story by Maame Esi Nyamekye Thompson