Professor Godfred Bokpin, has called on the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to seize the opportunity presented by their effective majority in Parliament to introduce meaningful governance and structural reforms.
The Ghanaian Economist and Professor of Finance at the University of Ghana Business School stressed that the current government holds a unique advantage in pushing its development agenda due to the absence of a strong parliamentary opposition in an interview on Joy FM's Super Morning Show. "This government has the best opportunity because practically we don't have opposition in Parliament," he stated. "The NPP effectively walked themselves into a silent opposition by the way they conduct themselves, so the government has the leverage." According to him, the current political environment offers the perfect setting for the NDC to pursue long-overdue structural, governance, and productivity-enhancing reforms that could positively reshape Ghana's economy. "In fact, there is broader support for this government and what they are doing, so they should take advantage of that and initiate far-reaching governance reforms, structural reforms, productivity-enhancing reforms because they got the numbers in Parliament," he added.
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Bokpin likened the current opportunity to the expectations that surrounded President Akufo-Addo's administration in 2017, when the New Patriotic Party (NPP) commanded a strong parliamentary majority. "It was the same expectation we had when President Akufo-Addo came to office in 2017 because he had the numbers," he recalled.
