Head of Policy Monitoring and Evaluation at the Presidency, Dr. Tony Aidoo says Ghana must develop a leadership that is conscious of the mistakes of past leaders if it is to chart a new and sustainable path to development.

According to Dr. Tony Aidoo, the failure by past and present leaders to assess the actions of their predecessors and determine their workability or otherwise in order that valuable lessons could be learnt, was the bane of Ghana's development.

He was disccusing the subject of leadership on the Super Morning Show on Joy FM, Wednesday.

The senior government official said, many of the economic models that have been suggested by donor partners and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) since independence, and on which many leaders have relied, have not been taken into account, the peculiar conditions of the country.

"Our leaders are so vulnerable to suggestions that do not work. The notion, and it is a very obnoxious notion that there are tested methods [which can be exported to solve our problems], is one of the bane of our development," Dr. Aidoo stressed.

He added: "You cannot say that this model has worked and therefore it will work if you cannot replicate the conditions within which the model worked".

The former deputy Defense Minister therefore stressed the need for Ghana "to develop a leadership that is not only conscious of the historical past especially relative to other countries and their process of becoming what they are, but also with a high sense of obligation and commitment to the welfair of the people."

Greedy Politicians

Speaking on the same programme, Kofi Bentil, vice president of policy think tank, IMANI-Ghana said because the country's political leaders were not held accountable, they had become so self-centred that they no longer took the concerns of the people seriously.

"When they have no vision, they don't have a direction, they just cast off restraints and give themselves everything that is good, the people also decide that there is no reason [why] we must sacrifice".

Mr. Bentil maintained that the current crop of leaders fall short of the three pillars around which leadership evolves - character, passion and trust - and cannot be trusted because, "they [politicians] have..opted out of our common reality" and have become greedy.