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Dear President,
I am writing to you as a proud citizen of your country and congratulate you on the good work done over the past four years, especially on the implementation of free secondary school for all and other impactful policies implemented over the past 4 years. Thank you.
Before we continue, let me take this opportunity to congratulate you on your success at the end of the election that you won with all the attacks on you in the few months leading up to the Special Prosecutor and NDC opposition elections. Once again congratulations. Your win is a great example of how hard work pays. You won an election at a time when the country faces enormous challenges.
From the coronavirus pandemic, sanitation, jobs for young people to decisively fighting corruption, controlling spending and at the same time creating a new future for the more than 28 million people you serve . It is a responsibility that I know you do not take lightly and a task that must be accomplished by bringing together the best spirit and the right pool of talent at your disposal.
Recruitment
As you take over the business of this country again, don’t forget the young people who are struggling to get what they can call a job and trust you with their lives. More than ever, we still have many young people who are still looking for a job and still believe that one day their way of life could change. I know that on the eve of 2016 there have been many changes made so that teachers and most public service recruitments can only be done in Accra. While I agree that the last word in these recruitments could be Accra, it is not representative enough. We have a situation where so many graduates in a particular community are looking for employment but have no one to connect them to Accra.
They see teachers assigned to their school without knowing how the recruitment went. To create a fair and balanced recruiting process, we need to go back to the old system where district directors and directors of graduate schools play a role in the recruitment strategy in our schools and other government offices.
I believe that the recruiting strategy should be aligned with the overall business strategy of the organization and therefore allowing the manager to assess future employees and recommend them for a job is the right way to go. We need to decentralize recruiting to our educational institutions, hospitals and other government agencies so that the people we recruit represent the communities we serve.
Meeting the financial challenges of the pandemic
The financial constraints that the coronavirus has placed on the country are enormous and its impact cannot be easily quantified. So many countries around the world are in the same boat. Since the financial crisis of 2008 and / 2009, there has not been a difficult period like this in our lives. I think, as you take over for another 4 year term, we need to address the challenges posed by the coronavirus and deliberately inject capital into the economy and help small businesses keep afloat and keep them going. jobs.
Solving the financial challenges of the coronavirus will create an environment conducive to the creation of new jobs. The coronavirus has taught us a lesson that there are so many areas of our economy that require an injection of capital. He tells us that we need to invest in our communications infrastructure and find ways to bring down the price of data so that a child living in the most remote part of the country can have access to the internet for educational and other purposes.
Changing the way we work in the public sector
The public sector in every economy is particularly important. A strong public sector can help the private sector achieve the success that the country is looking for. Imagine a country where a driver takes so many years to acquire a license so that he can drive that truck from the farm gate to the market. If the institutions set up to serve the public or the private sector are not working, don’t expect the private sector to work well. That is why I believe that the Ghanaian civil service needs reform that can help it perform well in the 21st century. The independent structure of the post has lost its usefulness and must be abolished and create a public sector which can respond well to the needs of the citizens of this century. This means creating a governance architecture team behind each ministry that will oversee analysis, projects and delivery to the people.
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Fight against sanitation threats and corruption
The future will be determined by what we do today. Whether the next generations of Ghanaians and most of our people will succeed and bury the cycle of poverty in our communities depends on what we do today. Today we have a clear choice to end corruption and mismanagement right here in our country and usher in a new era of free and just society. We have a chance to create decent housing for the poor on our streets while ensuring that people with higher incomes pay their fair share for the growth of the country.
Today we have a clear choice to plan our cities and task our district assemblies to do their job and to ensure that no trash cans are stacked on a floor until a loan is obtained from the World Bank or elsewhere to remove them. We have a clear choice to pick up the garbage at our people’s doorstep without having to haul the garbage a long distance before throwing it on the ground. Accra must show the way for all and show the way forward. We need to find the money and provide every household with bins that include garbage and recycling. Then draw a plan to collect them every week from the houses. It has the potential to create a lot of jobs if we can.
Job creation & 1D1F
Mr. Speaker, you must continue the One District One Factory (1D1F) program because it is the right thing to do and something that can create jobs and eradicate millions of people from poverty across the country. Ghana cannot continue to be a country of consumption. We also need to develop our own products for others to consume, especially as we put in place an Africa-wide free trade policy. We need to accelerate this program and invest heavily until we have a factory in every neighborhood and on every street corner. Having factories in each district will also help to open up the district and improve the local economy for other economic activities to thrive and we must pursue this as a country with all the seriousness it deserves.
Mr. Speaker, we must continue to invest in the ingenuity of young people and help them innovate and create jobs for our people. Today, we can turn the situation around and create wealth for the majority of our population by building incubation centers in every region of the country where we can harness creative talents and develop them for the market. If we are to fail, we must fail quickly, learn from it and move on. It has the potential to create many jobs and to give dignity to the majority of our population.
Prince Akyereko, MBA,
Senior Business Systems Analyst with TD Bank Group
and youth organizer of NPP Canada
LinkedIn @ https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/prince-akyereko-mba-0636b09b
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