Sunday 27 August 2023

Bravo to the NDC's Dr. Kwabena Dufuor - and bully for the NDC

Bravo to the National Democratic Congress' former finance minister, for making it clear that wealth generation and job generation (by ensuring that  the private sector's entrepreneurs have a business-friendly environment), ought to be, and will be, the focus, of the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections, and thereafter.

Having successfully steered our national economy, on a path-of-growth (while the then NDC government was running a tailor-made International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout programme), as Ghana's finance minister, during the John Atta Mills presidency, it is a blessing, and reassuring, for our bankrupted nation that it has a former finance minster with a stellar track record of that nature, in the leadearship ranks of the NDC - which is our largest opposition party, and most capable of providing an alternative, to the current ruling party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

Dr. Dufour is absolutely right in pointing out the need for fostering a businss-friendly economic environment, as a top priority, for the next NDC administration, in 2025 (God willing).

In that regard, because they have the best scaleable wealth-creation, and job-generating, business models, which are easily replicated nationwide, profitably, as wise and aspirational Africans, it is best for Ghanaian society to focus on creating wealth and jobs through the most bleeding-edge and
innovative private sector entities, owned by astute, ethical green entrepreneurs, running successful green economy social impact, profit-sharing companies, bedrocked on ESG principles, which protect the natural environment, pay their workers well and make the welfare of stakeholder-communities top priorities. That's how best any hoped-for post-pandemic prosperity can be achieved. No question.

In that light, in our beautiful and bountiful Ghana, the best go-to green ethical social impact entrepreneurs, for our wisest, most selfless and sincerest politicians to consult, on green economy public private partnership (PPP) policy issues, are the brilliant master-planner, Kofi Boakye-Yiadom, the CEO of Legon Botanical Gardens, and Western Region born and bred, son-of-the-soil orphan-made-good, Issa Ouedraogo, the founder of B-BOVID.

Bully for the NDC, that it has an economist of the calibre of Dr. Dufuor in its leadership ranks - and bravo to the affable and selfless Dr. Kwabena Dufuor!

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