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After a hard day's work yesterday, I went home to do my evening prayers and ate the chicken sandwich I had bought on my way home. I then sat quietly on my reading desk to prepare for my next day conference on economic growth. Reading the books, I suddenly heard a loud noise. Shortly after, all I could see were Ghanaians jubilant in the streets and heading for the Independence Square.
The youth of the nation besieged the house and the Jubilee / Flagstaff Parliament. The new government in power and the changes it intends to bring to the lives of ordinary Ghanaians have been announced. The changes proposed by the new regime were simple and simple.
First, the regime wanted to reduce the size of ministers to 60 (30 ministers and 30 members):
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Ministry of Food and Agriculture
- Ministry of Defense and Interior
- Ministry of Transport, Roads, Highways and Railways
- Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources
- Ministry of Chieftaincy and Women's Empowerment
- Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
- Ministry of Employment, Entrepreneurship and Labor Relations
- Ministry of Housing and Town Planning
- Ministry of Trade and Tourism
- Ministry of Information, Communication and Media Relations.
- Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning
- Ministry of Justice and Attorney General
- Ministry of Local Governance and Rural Development.
The others are the 16 regional ministers and their deputies. There would be no need for 998 presidential staff and 123 ministers for a country smaller than Nigeria, China and India, but with a government larger than all. The proposed reduction in the size of the government is aimed at reducing the payroll and avoiding the waste of taxpayers' money. Another reason would be to abolish the practice of creating "employment for boys' posts and ministries", which eventually becomes redundant.
The government also wanted to amend the constitution to limit the number of ministers who could be appointed by a sitting president, in order to prevent citizens from waking up one day to 200 ministers from another government. No one had ever thought that we would go from more than 80 ministers from previous regimes to 123 ministers. The new government did not stop there; it wanted to change the constitution and reduce the minimum age to the presidency to 30 years, set a limit of mandate to deputies, return free of charge deputies return, pbad a law prohibiting persons appointed by the government to solicit medical care abroad with the taxpayer money and also create a national center for petitions.
He also wanted to tackle four (4) key related development issues in Ghana:
- Roads, highways and railways
- Electricity, health and water supply
- Food and agriculture, and
- Affordable housing
Foreign companies would be invited to partner with Ghanaian companies to build and network all roads, highways and railways in the country. Foreign companies would also be invited to badociate with their Ghanaian counterparts to ensure that electricity, health and water are available in quality for all Ghanaians (rich or poor), just as it is accessible 24/24 and 7/7 in countries such as Rwanda, America, the United Kingdom, Dubai and others. Agriculture would be commercialized to allow more unemployed graduates to take advantage of this sector. The curriculum would be reviewed to find a better alternative to unemployed "double-track" and unqualified university graduates.
In terms of income generation, the government did not want to go around the world to borrow. She wanted to obtain sufficient monetary value for the existing natural resources of the country. In addition, the new government has not planned to raise more taxes and burden the poor mbades. It wanted to strengthen the existing revenue collection agencies and seal all leaks in the "system" in order to collect the necessary taxes to meet the minimum 15% tax revenue requirement to enable the country to meet the targets. sustainable development. By 2030. In addition to national tax revenues, the government also wanted to unlock investment opportunities for more public-private partnerships to address all the development challenges facing the poor mbades. Additional sources of tax revenue, such as the taxation of dual nationals born in Ghana and from Ghana, would be implemented. However, this policy will be implemented in parallel with the policy of allowing dual nationality citizens born in Ghana to participate in elections and hold political office in the country.
While I was sitting behind my television and watching the leaders of the new unconstitutional government continue to implement the proposed changes for Mother Ghana, I could see the crowd gathered at Independence Square applauding them as if Ghana had won a second independence. Suddenly, I heard a heavy sound to my ears and jumped. Only then did I realize it was five in the morning and wake up to get ready for work. There and then I realized that everything was only a dream, which was confirmed by the digestion in my stomach of the chicken sandwich that I had eaten the night before. However, when I entered the shower, I thought to myself, "It's a strange dream; As we saw on Friday, July 5, 2019, we no longer need to disrupt parliamentary proceedings, nor do we need an unconstitutional government, as we have already seen. We just need a constitutionally elected government that will say enough about incompetence, enough of the size of a bloated government, enough of the human rights violation by justice, enough of corruption, enough of corruption, enough of mediocrity of medical care, enough of mediocre roads, enough poor retirement schemes, enough poor education systems, enough "politricks", enough, that's enough. "
Dr. Sa-ad Iddrisu
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