Opanin, I refer to your latest campaign email (Thu, 25/9/08, Papa Kwesi Nduom, MP From: Papa Kwesi Nduom, MP Subject: My Running Mate)
I am humbly making a few suggestions that I hope you and your team will consider, going forward. I do so publicly so that the other political parties will act on same - as we all want mother Ghana's prosperity, at the end of the day.
Naturally, for a patriot and ultra-nationalist like my humble self, there is also the small matter of the Byzantine workings of the inner circles of Ghanaian presidential candidates - which one simply has no interest in engaging!
They (my suggested ideas, i.e.!) all refer to areas of our national life that your vice presidential candidate could competently handle as part of his duties - were you to win the December 2008 presidential elections.
Opanin, may I suggest that your party looks immediately at the sustainable rural development model championed by the South African sustainable livehoods entity, Sustainable Villages Africa?
I really do believe that if your party worked closely with Clive Norton, SVA's managing director, our great party could change rural Ghana for the better, within our lifetime.
I also suggest that you contact Folke Gunther, the Swedish sustainable development expert who has developed a simple biochar processing plant for use by even the smallest hamlet homesteaders, in the developing world.
If your party champions biochar, we could dramatically improve crop yields in rural Ghana, literally in months - and help contribute significantly to the fight against global climate change, too.
You should also contact Pro Natura, who have set up a plant in Senegal to make "green charcoal". Green charcoal can help save our forests and make rural Ghana prosper.
They would be perfect PPP projects that all our district assemblies could partner farmers' cooperatives to set up and run with SVA, as joint-venture partnerships. Funding for such projects can be obtained under Ghana's clean development mechanism (CDM), under the Kyoto Treaty.
The "green charcoal" plant in Senegal gets paid by Air France - who neutralise some of their carbon footprint that way, as its carbon offset initiative.
If you contact Sustainable Travel International's (STI) Brian Mullis, he will find you companies committed to "greening" their businesses by funding small hydroelectric projects in the developing world.
Can you imagine how beneficial it would be for our nation, if we were able to fund all the small hydroelectric power projects Nkrumah had plans for, in such a creative, "thinking-outside-the-box" fashion?
And if you contacted that brilliant young Ghanaian architect, Kojo Derban, he will show you his breathtaking plans for an ethnographic museum in Tamale, using traditional northern architecture.
Opanin, such an important arts and cultural institution could make eco-tourism in the north (a niche the north has comparative advantage over other areas of our country), grow even faster.
During your first term, you must also build an international airport in Tamale to serve as a Sahelian West African hub for traffic from the landlocked countries such as Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger - and boost eco-tourism in the north, yet further.
If you worked closely with Graham Knight of DIY Solar, we could help disadvantaged youth in rural Ghana, as well as the poorer parts of urban Ghana, make simple solar products such as: solar lamps; convert ordinary lanterns into solar lanterns; convert the oil lamps used by kenkey sellers and food sellers at night, into solar lamps; as well as make solar mobile phone battery chargers!
All those micro-entrepreneurial opportunities could make young people independent - not dependent on the state: as is currently the situation with large parts of the national youth employment programme - an idea that isn't sustainable in the long term: as has become glaringly obvious to all discerning and independent-minded Ghanaians.
Good luck in December, Opanin. May God bless and protect our homeland Ghana, always. Long live freedom! Long live Ghana!
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