The co-founder of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) Prof Baffour Agyeman-Duah believes that despite having a stable democracy for 30 years, the turnaround of the country has been slow.

Speaking on PM Express on JoyNews, he said that although Ghana has recorded some achievement through the introduction of social programmes, the mismanagement of resources, among others has stagnated Ghana’s growth.

“What we've achieved is by far minimal….We have underachieved. We cannot pat our back as having done good because we could have done much better. Most countries that develop over the past few decades, they took about 25, at most 30 years to turn things around.”

“We could have done better because the resources are at our disposal. They are being mismanaged and underutilised. I mean, how can we be having own gold and other minerals for all these years and we don't have control over the gold,” Prof Agyeman-Duah noted.

The former UN Advisor stated one of the few things Ghana can boast of is a stable electoral democracy which has seen the election of different governments into power to lead the nation.

However, he believes that despite this, Ghana’s slow growth has shown that there is a need for a third force outside of the two major political parties that have led the nation since the Fourth Republic.

This, he stated, is needed especially since people are not seeing the dividends they expect from the leadership.

“I seriously believe that we need a third force. Not necessarily a political party but a movement that can come to reset the path of progress for this country because the path we’re treading currently is not going to take us anywhere,” he said.