The Vice-President of Global Leadership Network (GLN), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), Professor Samuel Lartey, has stressed the need for Ghanaians to eschew the growing blame game tendency in the national body politic.

He said instead of looking for loopholes and resorting to the blame game, it was important for Ghanaians to use their expertise to team up with governments to initiate policies and programmes that would enhance the accelerated socio-economic development.

He was speaking at a workshop organised by the GLN to sensitise the public to appreciate the essence of being supportive in harnessing human and natural resources in a meaningful way.

Prof Lartey expressed concern over the growing tendency among Ghanaians to apportion blame on all issues pertaining to national development.

He said that attitude rather undermined effective and sustainable socio-economic development and said the GLN was established not only to grow and support leaders in the various sectors of the economy but also to demand responsible and accountable leadership.

It was also to sensitise the public to be more nationalistic, instead of promoting their selfish tendencies.

On how to harness the human and natural resources in the country to support accelerated development, Prof Lartey said it was important for leaders in the various sectors of the economy to be visionaries, people-oriented, work as a team and be culturally sensitive.

He said good leaders were not only always focused on their desire to execute their vision for the benefit of the larger society but also encouraged the public to work as a team and collaborate in all endeavours by devising means to realise the desired objective of accelerated development

The President of the GLN, Mr Mark Kakraba Ampeh, urged the public to always provide better alternatives to put the development initiatives of the country on track.

“Our mission is to transform and regenerate our nation through self-actualisation of its citizens, irrespective of sex, age, tribe and social  association,” he explained.

Expounding the operations of the GLN, he said, “While we need to raise leaders to respond to the immediate challenges of our time, it is even more important to raise leaders who will take over from us and, even more importantly, lay a solid foundation for the development of leadership for generations to come.”