So the Mills administration too, wants to spend our nation's scarce resources, “branding Ghana"? Typical. What other wheeze will our leaders come up with to waste taxpayers’ money, I ask, dear reader? Surely, it is not rocket science – as even a buffoon and an ignoramus like me has cottoned on to the fact that the first building block to achieving a favourable national image worldwide, is to get rid of corruption in officialdom, to begin with, by trying corrupt officials and shooting them: just as they do in China to rogues on the state’s payroll?
We can follow that up with fixing the real economy – by bringing down Ghana’s interest rate to less than 2 per cent. Then we can go on to abolish personal income tax for all Ghanaian residents, and lower our corporate tax rate to make it the lowest in the whole of the planet Earth.
Let us then dramatically increase the size of the police to about 100,000 men and women – and train them to become as effective and efficient as the best in the developed world. We can then provide each one of them with personal communication equipment – which enables them to talk to each other whiles on the move (on foot and in vehicle patrols), as well as with their stations.
After that let us provide them with four drones with cameras on board to cover the whole of Ghana 24/7, 365 days a year – so they can keep track of criminals easily from the air.
Then instead of the financial equivalent of pouring money down a black-hole, by spending zillions of hapless taxpayers’ money, paying sundry consultants to “brand Ghana” we can rather get free advertising worldwide – on countless information-providing websites about doing business around the globe: as the safest nation in Africa to live in, and the nation with the lowest corporate tax rate, in the whole wide world: and boost our national image, perpetually, that way!
What is it about politicians that makes them want to spin their way out of problems – instead of finding practical and sensible real-world solutions to our country’s many problems? Hmmm, Ghana – eyeasem oo! Asem ebaba debi ankasa!
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I feel you. That's modern young people speak for I share your sentiments:)
Certainly what we do is more important than what we say but what we say (in the form of branding) should be aligned with what we're doing. So I say we fix the problems, and whilst doing that, highlight that the problems are being fixed. That way, we don't have to wait till we no longer have problems to market ourselves. Afterall, solving a lot of our problems like corruption at all levels require behavioral changes that take a long time to change.
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