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General News of Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
2019-03-27
play the videoPrime Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo
Prime Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo, revealed that "Ghana Beyond Assistance", which has been the motto of his government, neither refuses nor refuses help.
According to him, "Ghana Beyond Aid" means that Ghana accepts help and uses it to meet the country's development needs.
He said that, even if his government preached "Ghana Beyond Aid", the NPP government would be ready and willingly accept help and support when it comes with open arms.
"Ghana beyond the aid, it is not Ghana who refuses to accept help, it is not Ghana who refuses to accept it. help will always come, but Ghana will determine the priority when this help and support come, "he said at the inauguration of an ultra-modern laboratory for Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research.
Mr. Osafo Maafo explained that when help and support come, they will be left to the donor, but that Ghana, as a country, must determine its priority at all times.
Context
Upon taking office, President Akufo-Addo said that to succeed as a country, Ghana had to go beyond the aid that it received from foreign partners.
The President recently received a charter outlining the roadmap for Ghana's determination to become an autonomous country of the 13-member Charter Committee for Improving Assistance to Ghana, which is expected to become the mobilizing force of Ghana's development.
Upon receiving the charter at the Jubilee House in Accra, President Akufo-Addo said that the work done on "Ghana Beyond Aid", the slogan, the mobilizing force as well as the detailed content of the document would provide clear direction and a roadmap to the government. about how he conducts his business in the country. "
President Akufo-Addo said the document reinforces this orientation and would also serve as "a guide to the work of all state institutions: the executive, the legislature, the judiciary, as a whole and the institutions of the state. social. "
The agenda of a Ghana Beyond Aid is essentially to mobilize and raise awareness among Ghanaians that "no one would come from nowhere to develop Ghana for them other than the Ghanaians themselves," he said. .
Agreements with people outside the country are intended to help us "achieve the fundamental goals of our country's development, we will make progress when we take responsibility for our own actions and we will lead in a fruitful way". President explained.
He said that "the document will also serve as a guide to apply the slogan" [Ghana Beyond Aid] to make it meaningful in the lives of 30 million Ghanaians in Ghana and those outside Ghana. "
The President stated that he hoped that Parliament would have access to the document as soon as possible, in order to allow the Assembly to debate and approve the strategy in order to give it a national character, which would guide all interventions aimed at making the country autonomous.
The document must be tabled in Parliament for deliberations that would lead it to become a national policy document that would guide the actions of the government, as well as those of the various stakeholders in the country.
This will be not only a slogan, but also "a guide to the country's development process, as it will be to apply it so that it has meaning in the lives of the 30 million Ghanaians and from outside the country … "he said.
He observed that the awareness created on the continent over the past four decades had made it clear that Africa could only meet its development challenges when it freed itself from dependence on the continent. regard to aid.
The President said Africa should use its own resources and rely more on appropriate local policies to unlock the continent's economic potential.
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