Wereko-Brobby shares experiences on critical national issues today
Enoch Darfah Frimpong
Politics
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“I have decided to use the occasion of my 60th birthday and 25 years of active participation in Ghana's energy sector and public life to give a series of lectures that will enable me to share and reflect on my experiences, draw the lessons from and the consequences for self and country, and give pointers to how the future may draw on my experiences and the lessons thereof,” he noted.
Dubbed ‘The GIPPO Inaugural Lectures,’ the first in the series of the public lectures is on the topic: ‘When ignorance is not bliss: The politricks of petroleum pricing in Ghana.’
In the second lecture, Dr Wereko-Brobby will keep touch with the energy sector, addressing the topic: ‘Darkness begets darkness: Shedding load to power Ghana’s development.’
Subsequently in the third lecture, he will address the topic: ‘Media freedom and an informed populace: The right to speak and the obligation to know what we are talking about.’
Issues about planning will not be left out of the GIPPO Inaugural Lectures as he examines the topic: “Sixty per cent of our people live in the rural areas: The myth and consequences of colonial planning legacies” in the fourth lecture.
In the fifth lecture, Dr Wereko-Brobby will turn his attention on governance and accountability as he treats what promises to be an exciting topic: ‘In whose name and on whose behalf: Governance and accountability in the Fourth Republic.’
Dr Wereko-Brobby will conclude the GIPPO Inaugural Lectures with another intriguing topic: ‘From Polo Square to Beijing: The Independence of Ghana is still meaningless.’
“Each lecture will review a facet of my many and disparate involvement in Ghana’s public life, from the energy professional through to the freedom and democracy activist and life as a politician,” he said.
Dr Wereko-Brobby said the GIPPO Inaugural Lectures were also to outdoor the new vehicle he had chosen to use to contribute his quota “in the Swansong quarter century or so left of my life for active thinking and doing.”
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