Stop The Polarisation — Appiah-Menka A Renowned industrialist, Mr Akenten Appiah Menka, has called
for a national crusade to eliminate the serious
political,social and economic disabilities which retard socio-economic growth.
He expressed regret that party politics had so much polarised the nation that even serious social and economic challenges that needed a common voice to address were viewed with political lenses, causing the nation to lose eventually.
On the “economic
disability” of the nation, Mr Appiah-Menka said: “The one man one vote we have struggled to acquire for the last 50 years has not as yet been translated into one man one bread.
Can we keep on importing rice, milk, sugar, tin tomatoes, fish, chicken and our basic stable needs to feed the nation when God has endowed the nation with land, vegetation and weather for the Ghanaian to cultivate, develop and feed ourselves?”
He stressed the need for a national crusade and courage to clear the nation of the disability in the nation’s vision and conscience, which had been dictated by the one-sided view of party politics so that the nation could decide to do what was right in the interest of the present and future generations.
He questioned why “we have afflicted physical disability of hunger, want of jobs, homelessness, disease and illiteracy on our people after 50 years of political independence,” and that this must not be attributed to any political party or a particular government but the people themselves.
He called for a change of attitude to work and the negative perception of whatever came from political opponents.
Story by Annabella Sarfo Mireku,