Businessman and philanthropist, Dr Kofi Amoah, has called for a sober reflection on the occasion of Ghana's 68th Independence anniversary celebration, declaring that the time had come for the country's leaders to stop promising what cannot be accomplished and start sowing seeds of real hopes of good paying jobs for everybody able to work.
In a social media post last Thursday as Ghana chalked 68 years as a nation-state, Dr Kofi Amoah, affectionately called Citizen Kofi said he and majority of Ghanaians are unhappy about the state of the nation, vis-à-vis the enormous potential of the country considering the vast mineral and human resource the country is blessed with.
He asserts that one of the cardinal reasons for Ghana's lack of real progress in the last six decades is the failure of leaders to "realize that the impenetrable curtain between us and developed societies is our inability to see nexus between work and progress, JOBLESSNESS and POVERTY!!
He adds, "we cannot continue pontificating ludicrously from religion to digitalization, free and fair election to free and 'inferior' education when our people are poor, jobless and without hope, with our fertile lands vacant, the power of the sun energy we have in abundance untapped … and we keep borrowing gargantuan sums of which substantial portion is filtered away into corruption…" This situation, he maintained is an important and existential matter for Ghana.
