Raymond Edem Tamekloe, Presidency Communications team member, has criticised the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for what he describes as their reliance on slogans without tangible results.
Speaking on GHToday on GHOne Tv on July 3 with Lily Mohammed, he said, “Blunt reality is the fact that the NPP delights and draws largely on sloganeering, you know, throwing around flimsy and catchy slogans. One district, one factory.”
He argued that government policies must yield clear outcomes, stating that the one district one factory initiative “amounted to nothing because our import bills even grew all the more.” According to him, manufacturing “grew in the negative,” questioning the impact of the policy.
He added, “You cannot do the same things and expect different outcomes. You need to engage extensively with industry players, stakeholders and find a holistic and very concrete solution with the issue of productivity, production, unemployment and all of those things.”
Tamekloe said Ghana imports 90% of the things it consumes, with the food import bill alone standing at 3.5 billion U.S. dollars, including 300 million U.S. dollars on poultry products.
He explained that producing what the country consumes and exporting the excess will improve the economy by gaining forest liquidity, lowering exchange rates, reducing imported inflation, decreasing the cost of goods and services, and improving living conditions.
On unemployment, he said, “We cannot have a country where unemployment stands at 14.7%. That is criminal.”
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/Emmanuel Mensah
