Deputy Secretary General of Trades Union Congress(TUC) Dr Kwabena Nyarko Otoo has blamed the failure of successive governments to implement key economic policies that could fundamentally change the fortunes of the country on extreme partisanship linked to the financing of political parties.
Dr Otoo noted that for the country to make progress, political parties must tone down on the partisanship and be able to implement and support policies for the benefit of the country as a whole.
He explained that the government’s quest to make Ghana self-sufficient in poultry production through the ‘Nkoko Nkitinkiti’ programme is a good policy that may not succeed because of the vested interests of people who import poultry and have funded the campaigns of political parties.
“…there is a poultry lobby in Ghana that funds political parties. So once they win power, they are powerless. So nkuko Nkitinkiti is a fantastic idea that should support homegrown chicken production but will they survive the onslaught of cheap imports of poultry products from the Netherlands, from the UK, produced at heavily subsidised costs?” He wondered.
Dr Otoo who is a prominent economist and labour expert, explained that the current state of the Ghanaian economy is stable but not resilient since it relies mainly on a mono-product – gold.
