As the leader of a small global group of professionals and academics for more than four decades, I am often asked in the USA what I think of the new government in Ghana. I am glad to summarize some ideas but will not put much fanfare around it.
I want to congratulate H.E. John Mahama for his decisive win and use this to warn Ghanaian leaders in general about what we all need to do to save our nation in view of the margin of victory! Ghanaian leaders should never take the youth of Ghana for granted again! In my humble opinion, here are a few hints of the needed job ahead for our new President:
1. Constitution Amendment to allow decentralized elected leadership for towns, districts, and regions for their mutual local development in a formula of alliance with other towns/districts/regions and the nation in cost-sharing of major highways, …