Is it Terkper or Wampah?

In 2014, when the New Patriotic Partys (NPP’s) Bawumia, in his analysis of the economy, advised the government to put a brake on promises of new projects, I immediately dismissed him as naive. That type of advice should be coming from a known National Democratic Congress (NDC) person or a sympathiser such as the People’s National Convention’s (PNC’s) Ayariga. From a man associated with a party which, in our part of the world, is not expected to wish the government success, that type of advice could be interpreted to mean only one thing; envy.

The reaction was on the airwaves. NDC spokespersons spelled Bawumia in unfamiliar alphabets.
Of course, every community needs development projects such as clinics, schools, roads, bridges, etc. But is that, or should that be, the real measure of a government’s effectiveness?

Last week, in asking Seth Terkper to go, I stated that the real yardstick for measuring government success could not be projects.
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