As a development practitioner as well as my bitter experiences growing up as a young boy amid the socio-economic difficulties in the north, the SADA stories may be disheartening. But the quality of the debate and the level of ignorance particularly by many social commentators and the media are even more disheartening and dangerous. We may have valid and genuine concerns that our taxes are not properly targeted and are bin leaked. But lets address the issues professionally and contribute to improve the system and the institutions. Many young people would want to read/hear constiructive views on the policy options to addressing the SADA ills than what they have already head on the street by party boys and girls. Yet every policy space and airwaves are occupied with ill-informed prognosis and analysis about how northerner are their own enemies. For those who think SADA is situated at the north and only addresses the needs of northerners probably need to be schoolled more about the basics of development. .... over 60 trillion $$$ in aid money has gone into Africa in the last 70 or so years not because the white man loves Africa so much that he taxes his own people harshly and transfer those taxes to us in Africa. Geopolitics of aid aside, underdevelopment anywhere is a burden and indeed a political and economics threat to to the rest then the poor themselves. Those who have followed the genesis of the Arabian revolution should understand these basics and begin to pick lessons about the consequences of uneven development to rest in a jurisdiction. If I may ask are Gas benefiting more in Accra (a relatively developed region in Ghana ) than the rest? Atleast, our socio-economic data on living standards suggest NOT SO. We need to get these basic facts so we can properly debate our development policy direction; where we are and where we are going. So why all these ill-informed hullabaloo about northerners causing their own ills because the president hells from the north? As Ghanaians, do we really need a president from a certain location to have that place developed? Ghanaians are held so high and herald around the world and we need to show that on home soil than we have done until now.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 05:20:40 +0000
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