Not too long ago, Prince Kofi Amoabeng, the founder of the UT Group, was reported by sections of the Ghanaian media to have stated that a challenge he relishes, is being handed the judiciary system in Ghana, with the mandate to transform it into a profitable entity.
Given his track record, thus far, one has no doubt that it is a feat Prince Kofi Amoabeng can actually achieve - especially as most of those who work in the judiciary will support any agenda to transform it and make it a profitable undertaking that pays all those it employs compensation packages that are comparable to those earned by their counterparts in the UK, for example, from its internally-generated funds.
However, the task one thinks ought to be given to Prince Kofi Amoabeng, immediately, is to be handed the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), so that he can transform the area it covers into a thriving part of Ghana, in which young people who are ambitious and hardworking can become properous small business owners - by pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps.
In light of the frustrations faced by millions of people who live there, the need to transform the administrative regions covered by SADA is so urgent and vital a task, that the government ought to put Prince Kofi Amoabeng in charge of it as soon as practicable.
The government must appeal to his sense of patriotism to persuade him to accept this urgent national assignment.
One finds it frustrating that vast swathes of the countryside areas covered by SADA, still remain poor, although they could support small-scale enterprises that could produce highly sought after products such as organic moringa seed oil, cold-pressed organic neem seed oil and neem seed cake, organic baobab powder, organic baobab seed oil, organic Voacangaa africana seed oil, organic shea butter and neem seed oil body cream, organic shea butter and neem seed oil pomade and soap, organic rice, organic fruits and vegetables, both for local and export markets.
An example of such a cottage industry owner, is Madam Cynthia Kampoe, a serial social entrepreneur, who leads a women's group based in Tamale that produces all the above-mentioned organic products.
The value-chains of their various product lines provide over 300 sets of twins with scholarships and financially empower countless women in the three northern regions. Incredibly, they are struggling to survive. That really is unacceptable and intolerable.
Yet, all they need is funding to purchase modern production equipment, and to purchase raw materials. As it happens, their social enterprises produce organic products, which have lucrative niche overseas fairtrade export markets that could turn all those phenomenally hardworking rural women into cedi millionairesses in less than a decade. Prince Kofi Amoabeng would definitely know how to bring about such a transformation.
President Mahama must show that he is a creative thinker who is capable of making critical appointments that are in the supreme national interest, when needed. Given the volitility of the area it covers, the appointment of the person who runs SADA, cannot be treated as a business as usual matter - in which top-level appointments are often based on the political allegiance of those being appointed to key public-sector positions.
Given the bellicose noises one is hearing from the rival ruling families in the Dagbon traditional area, the Abudus and Andanis, it is in the national interest that Prince Kofi Amoabeng is persuaded to accept a national assignment to run SADA and transform the area it covers.
He has the nous and gumption to transform the areas covered by SADA - by creating the necessaey conditions, which will enable the living standards of all those who live there and are willing to work hard and improve their individual circumstances by pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps, to do so.
Young people in Dagbon will definitely not have time to forment trouble, if they owned thriving businesses of their own, which produce organic rice for export to Iran, and for sale locally, for example, will they?
President Mahama must persuade Prince Kofi Amoabeng to run SADA - and help to transform the areas it covers into prosperous parts of our homeland Ghana: in which those who live there enjoy high living standards. A grateful nation ought to pay him a bonus of US$10 million if he succeeds - small Pito beer: given the billions of dollars it will add to Ghana's GDP if he succeeds.
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