A Deputy Information Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has issued a stinging attack on a ten-year development plan proposed by opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo. Mr Ablakwa minced no words in describing the development plan as empty and lacking vision. Nana Addo had only recently outdoored a development blue-print modelled along the Brazilian and Taiwanese experience of aggressive industrialisation. He 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. He is convinced with “Dedication, Discipline and Determination” Ghana can within a period of 10 years of sustained industrialisation leapfrog into a developed country. His blueprint has been the subject of intense scrutiny with varied opinions about the feasibility and sustainability of his model. Critiquing the model, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa noted that Nana Addo’s blue-print was but a cut and paste model which is and cannot be applicable in Ghana's agenda for development. He was a addressing the Tertiary Educational Institutions Network (TEIN) - a student’s wing of the ruling party. According to him, Ghana’s development challenges are peculiar and need home grown solutions not a collection of text book models as suggested by Nana Addo. “Apart from the fact that the ten-year policy was so empty, visionless and only a copy cat of the Brazilian model, everybody in development economics in the modern world has been impressed with development with the BRIC nations - Brazil, Russia, India and China - and so it is very easy to just grab one of the BRIC countries as they are doing and say you will be like them. “...The new country and the new vision that the youth and people of this country seek is the vision that is home-grown; that is owned by Ghanaians; that understands and appreciates our reality; a concrete situation on the ground; the unique conditions of our country; that is the only vision that will make this country progress," he stated. He said the copy-cat approach by Nana Addo is a clear indication of a visionless leader who is gasping for ideas. He ridiculed the opposition leader for seeking a ten-year time frame to transform the country when he (Akufo-Addo) is challenging President John Mills to fix the economy in two years. He implored the electorate to reject the proposal of Nana Akufo-Addo. Story by Nathan Gadugah/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana