The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Tourism Development Company (GTDC), Prof. Kobby Mensah, has cautioned political financiers and supporters against treating politics as a business investment, warning that such expectations are misguided and harmful to good governance.
Speaking on Starr Showbiz with Feeling Daddy on Starr 103.5 FM on Saturday, July 12, Prof. Mensah said many people wrongly assume that contributing money or resources to political campaigns guarantees personal rewards once their preferred candidates win power.
“You don’t support a political party because you put in 100,000 cedis. It’s not a business investment,” he stated. “If you come to the business school, we teach investment; if you put in 100,000 cedis, you expect an ROI of about 150,000. That’s investment. Politics is not investment.”
He described such financiers as “political entrepreneurs,” explaining that their support is purely transactional.
“They fund political parties in order to get a return… They are not politicians. They are political entrepreneurs,” Prof. Mensah said. “They support candidates thinking that when those people win, they’ll come back and give them contracts.”
He urged Ghanaians to abandon this mindset and instead support political parties based on shared values and the desire to contribute to national development.
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Prof. Mensah stressed that politics must be about public service, not private gain, and that placing personal profit over policy and governance risks undermining democracy and accountability.
“Politics is about aligning with ideological positions and trusting that a party will deliver collective good — not about expecting direct benefits in return for support,” he added.
Source: Starrfm.com.gh
