Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama has said that should Ghanaians infuse discipline into the national psyche, the vision of freedom, justice and wealth creation would remain relevant over the next 50 years. “With a culture of discipline for development, I believe we can raise productivity and national growth rate by over two percent annually at the present day levels of resource mobilization and investment,” he said. The Vice President made the remark at a governance forum, organised by the Ghana Chapter of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program Alumni Association (HHF-Ghana), a group of scholars who have had the privilege of undertaking various leadership courses in different universities across the United States of America. The forum, under the theme; Excellence in Governance: Africa’s Future Depends Upon it – The case of Ghana at 50, was to address issues of good governance at the national, public/civil service, academic and corporate levels. Alhaji Mahama, who is himself a patron of HHF-Ghana, noted that since independence, public and private sector leadership in Ghana had not lacked the necessary ideas and plans to order the affairs of the country, but indiscipline and irresponsible approach to leadership had robbed this country of the benefits of freedom. “Right after independence, a lack of responsibility in enforcing the intent and vision enshrined in our national symbols led to inconsistent governance…the result was the loss of policy direction that culminated into poor institutional growth,” he said.