A Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, Prof. Agyemang Badu Akosah, has decried the state of the Ghanaian economy, insisting successive governments aside that which was presided over by the late Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, has failed in alleviating poverty in the country.
In his view, the management of the economy has always centered on a few much to the detriment of the masses resulting in a situation where only the top echelons of the ruling political party benefited.
He told Fiifi Banson in an interview on Anopa Kasapa on Kasapa 102.3 FM Thursday that since the inception of multi-party democracy, the living standards of Ghanaians have remained the same if not declined.
“Twenty-three years of uninterrupted multi-party democracy – how may people can beat their chest and say that multi-party democracy has benefited him or her? I will dare say that 90% of Ghanaians if their living standards are not low, it has not improved either. That is my contention,” he noted.
“He added “since 1992, the politicians have only managed to improve their living standards while the masses who voted for them continue to bear the brunt of their mismanagement. So many people are suffering but when the time comes to elect our leaders, they will go and vote for the NPP or the NDC because they have the money to doll out to the electorates.”
He told Banson that the country’s multi-party democracy has now turned to monetics rather than politics.
“I tell you, you’ve got to influence the delegates with money.”
By: Kasapafmonline.com/Ghana
