Management Consultant, Akosuah Bame has urged Ghanaians to actively protect the country's natural resources from mismanagement.

In recent years, Ghana’s forest reserves and water bodies have suffered due to the activities of illegal miners.

Speaking at a recent public lecture on Joy News, Madam Bame addressed the economic and social challenges facing Ghana. She called for a fundamental shift in mindset to tackle these issues effectively.

During her speech, Mrs Bame argued that Ghana’s problems extend beyond the perceived incompetence of its leaders.

“Isn’t always incompetence that causes our leaders to watch people die at the Korle-bu Teaching Hospitals dialysis unit due to an unpaid bill of 4 million Ghana cedis, no frankly, what masquerades as incompetence is a much more sinister and insidious problem which needs to be called by its name, the mindset of our leaders,” she stated

She emphasised that the issue of illegal mining can only be resolved if the youth take action against it.

“American Central Intelligence Agency puts the wealth of Ghana's unmined minerals based on prices prevailing on the world market at $10 trillion.

“So citizens knowing the value of your share in this single asset class, will you continue to sit idly by and watch successive governments plunder and mismanage your wealth. I surely hope not,” she added.

In addition, Kwame Sarpong Asiedu, a Research Fellow at the Center for Democratic Development, discussed some of the challenges facing Ghana’s health sector.

“Everyone who goes into a supermarket pays an NHIS levy, so that it will be set aside to be used when you are unwell. That is if you are registered with the NHIS.

"However, we got told in 2017 by others that though we in our wisdom had paid those monies, they knew better, they knew how to use the monies we have set aside for our health.

“Sadly, we now complain that the NHIS has no money and that our cards are not functional,” he said.