How To Effect Peaceful Ballot-Box-Regime-Change Through Lateral Thinking When In The Political Wilderness

This is a nation in which even many hardworking families who have jobs struggle to make ends meet. Literally. That is why it is vital that our  privileged elites focus on fashioning policies that empower as many ordinary people  to bootstrap their own individual successes, as is possible.

In light of that, should it not become an established convention in Ghanaian politics that every time an opposition party criticises a sitting government's policies, it will come out with better alternatives to help move our country forward?

The question there is: Will that not focus the minds of responsible opposition politicians on the nation-building task - instead of looking on helplessly as their extremist colleagues  plot to destabilise Ghana: hoping that the governing party ends up failing society at the end of its tenure?

The ordinary Ghanaian would be more receptive of regime change at election time, for example, were  the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to establish a record of suggested policy alternatives, which had been adopted midstream by the government, after its own policies failed to achieve their desired goals.

That is why Kokou Anyidoho & Co must focus on the nation-building task whiles in the political wilderness  - by coming up with creative policy ideas that the  government has no alternative but to adopt and implement itself. Is that not more likely to clearly show Ghanaians at some point that the 'new' NDC party is indeed a government-in-waiting?

Finally, here are two simple ideas from an  old fool, Kofi Thompson, for Mr. Kokou Anyidoho & Co:  What have they got to lose by having discussions with Africa's wealthiest man, Aliko Dangote, with a view to getting him to commit to fund the building of six-lane tolled concrete motorways from Accra to all the regional capitals, as public private partnership (PPP) deals, in which his company builds, maintains those concrete motorways and collects road tolls tax-free for 35 years from them, before finally transferring  them to Ghana?

And, because Ghana lies at the centre of the globe, why do they not talk to the captains of Japanese industry about funding the building of a new well-built and well-designed green city in the Akwapim hills for property owners and residents of Nima-Maamobi - in exchange for acquiring their land to build a new industrial city that will serve as a Japanese private-sector disaster-resilience asset, in Ghana, which will enable them to continue functioning should a massive earthquake in Japan make it impossible for them to keep their businesses operational for a rather lengthy period?

Is that not how to effect peaceful ballot-box-regime-change through lateral thinking when in the political wilderness - instead of wasting precious time on pointless knee-jerk-politics that lead nowhere? Haaba.