Opinion: 'Ghana time is no good'. GIMPA could have done better with time management at congregation

The Ghana Institute of Management (GIMPA) held its 6th congregation on Saturday. The ceremony which should have started at 9am rather started at 10:52am.

Ironically, speaker after speaker did not bother to apologise to the audience until President John Dramani Mahama apologised for the late start during his address. The President was the third speaker.

But for the President's apology, the audience had no clue as to what caused the delay.

If this had happened at any other Ghanaian institution, the authorities could have been pardoned but not at GIMPA, an institution of higher learning which is supposed to train and educate public administrators. Is this how students are being trained?

Maybe this explains why most people in the public sector do not have appreciation for scarce resources. Waste of precious time is unacceptable and this should be one of the major paradigm changes we need to make as a country if we want to develop.

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