An Independent Presidential candidate in the 2024 elections has proposed a new national development model that seeks to actively integrate the chieftaincy institution into the country's governance and development process.
The 'Bipolar Institutional Governance (BIG) Ghana Model', which is one of the national governance and development strategies of the George Twum-Barima-Adu/Nyaaba-Aweeba Azongo ticket for the 2024 general elections, is a triple helix policy - capital-land-factor driven partnership.
The model proposes the government as the policy enabler, which sets the policy and regulations; the private sector (which is the engine of growth) provides the capital, and the traditional authority (who are the owners of the land, leaders of the people and the mobilizers of the people for development), becomes the vehicle for development and sustainable environmental management.
Nyaaba-Aweeba Azongo, the Vice Presidential Candidate to George Twum-Barima-Adu, explaining the new model to the Ghana News Agency, pointed out that the major fault in Ghana's unipolar development governance (public sector) framework, which was posing a challenge to broad-based development and the preservation of the environment, was the deliberate exclusion of the traditional authority sector in the current "romantic" national development framework, known as the Private-Public Partnership (PPP).