Akufo-Addo should be conciliatory in national address – Clara Kasser-Tee
Lecturer at the University of Ghana School of Law and Board Member of CDD-Ghana has urged President Akufo-Addo to be conciliatory in his address to the nation.
Mrs. Clara Kowlaga Beeri Kasser-Tee also urged the President to be transparent about the current state of the economy.
President Akufo-Addo has scheduled Sunday, 30, 2022 to address the nation on the economic woes faced by Ghanaians.
Highlighting her expectations of the President’s address on JoyNews Newsfile, on Saturday, Mrs. Kasser-Tee said the speech should “carry everybody along irrespective of political views.”
According to her, the speech should engender hope in the citizens.
This, according to her is because the President himself has witnessed the despondency in the people.
“.. of course, he [President Akufo-Addo] has taken tours, so I expect that the people will be at the center of his speech tomorrow and when I am talking about the people, I am talking about what he would have heard, felt and seen from the many engagements carried out across the nation,” she said.
Madam Kasser-Tee noted that the President’s speech should also contain “something that would deepen our democracy.
In a related development, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Full Gospel Church Int., Rev Samuel Mensah, has also called on President Akufo-Addo to stop attacking Ghanaians and his political opponents for expressing their views.
According to the Governance and Leadership consultant, the President must show exemplary leadership in the face of the prevailing economic challenges.
Sharing his expectations of the national address to be given by President Akufo-Addo on Sunday, Rev. Mensah said expenditure on government operations must be reduced.
According to him, this can be achieved if we, “Reduce number of government ministers to half and reduce number of convoy in his travels.”
Rev Mensah also recommended that all government ministers must travel on economy class tickets for the next three years that the country will be under IMF and the President must stop chattering private aircraft for his foreign trips.
The Leadership Consultant also called for the convening of an economic forum, “to involve key stakeholders regardless of political affiliations to fashion out a homegrown economic program to address our current economic crisis.”
“We need to control the frequent transport fare increases, control inflation and as a long term policy, the nation should move from import driven economy to export economy,” he advised.
Source: Ghana News
