Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. has blasted the Akufo-Addo government for their continuous blame on the Russia/Ukraine war for the economic crises facing Ghana.
The leaders have been talking about how the war between the two countries has negatively impacted Ghana's economy in various sectors including the agricultural sector.
Government communicators try on daily basis to make Ghanaians understand why the Russia/Ukraine conflict is a major contributory cause of their woes.
But to Mr. Pratt, it is shameful to blame Ukraine.
Settling on the challenges in the agriculture sector, Mr. Pratt disclosed that there are some leaders who till date keep blaming Ukraine saying there is food crises in Ghana because of the war.
This, to him, is preposterous as he explained that Ghana has arable lands to produce food.
" . . If you have 40 percent of the arable lands of the world and you have to go to Ukraine for food, are you not ashamed? . . . Why are our leaders crying that we can't find food because of Ukraine war? What a shame? What an admission of failure; crass incompetence?", he wondered how the nation is expected to develop.
Kwesi Pratt spoke on Peace FM's flagship programme "Kokrokoo".
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Ukraine provides cheap gas for producing fertilizers and also the gas is used to generate power for other plants in Europe that produce things we need in Agric. That is how Ukraine is affecting agric, it is not about food imports
I deliberately make this hypocritical assumption to make a point. If there had been no war between Ukraine and Russia and Ghana's food production was above subsistence level, would the critics have blamed the government specifically for importing fertiliser from Ukraine? We must not close our eyes to the fact that the Ghanaian economy has structural problems that date back to our colonial era, except that only our colonial masters benefited from them. And as an independent nation, we have not been able to transform our economic structures enough to withstand external shocks, be they direct or indirect. We seem to give the impression that the government of the day is the sole cause of our shortcomings. The impact of challenges such as the war in Ukraine can be direct or have a cascading effect on economies such as ours, and even on the world's major economies, depending on our global cooperation. So my solemn advice to those who delight in populism and political polemics at the expense of informed debate: be measured, lest you unduly frustrate the quest to make Ghana work. Notwithstanding, our challenges ahead will guide us to make policies that will stand the test of time.
WE JUST HAVE A BUNCH OF ***barred word*** OLD ***barred word*** AS LEADERS WITH NO BRAINS ALWAYS BLAMING OTHERS FOR THEIR INCOMPETENCE AND ***barred word***....THANK YOU COMRADE, GOD HAVE BLESSED AFRICANS WITH RESOURCES , FERTILE LAND AND GOOD CLIMATE YET WE RELY ON PEOPLE LIVING IN COLD BARREN LAND TO FEED US....OUR EMPTY HEADED, ***barred word*** LEADERS TILL THIS DAY BLAME OUR ECONOMIC WOES ON COVID AND RUSSIA UKRAINE WAR WHY? BECAUSE THEY ARE ***barred word*** VISIONLESS LEADERS WITH NOTHING TO OFFER