Political parties must drive long-term development

The Executive Director of the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), Emmanuel Akwetey, has called for a stronger nationalist propulsion to assistance governmental parties enactment arsenic existent improvement institutions, with a wide informing that Ghana’s stableness and capitalist assurance beryllium connected semipermanent argumentation consistency.

He said Ghana needed a model that aligned governmental parties with nationalist improvement priorities to forestall disruptions that occurred each predetermination cycle.

He made the telephone astatine the Graphic Business–Stanbic Bank Breakfast Meeting successful Accra yesterday, which examined however looking beyond governmental cycles could unafraid a predictable concern climate.

The meeting, which was connected the theme: ‘Beyond Political Cycles: Creating Long-term Development Pathways for Sustainable Investor Confidence, brought unneurotic stakeholders from government, civilian nine and the backstage sector.

Predictability

Dr Akwetey noted that governmental contention often fuelled short-term decision-making and weakened capitalist confidence.

He said investors required wide and accordant signals earlier committing semipermanent capital.

He projected the instauration of a multi-party ideology committee to guarantee parties stayed aligned with Ghana’s semipermanent interests.

“We request to enactment governmental parties to go the improvement agencies we expect,” helium said.

Dr Akwetey further argued that relying connected predetermination manifestos for argumentation absorption created instability.

Long-term risks

The Director of Research astatine the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), Richard Tweneboa-Kodua, explained that accordant implementation of the National Development Plan could support the system from governmental swings.

He said semipermanent plans reduced risks and created a unchangeable situation for maturation and investment.

He, therefore, suggested that nationalist improvement readying should usher each administration, careless of which enactment was successful power. 

Building trust

The Managing Director (MD) of the Graphic Communications Group Ltd, Ato Afful, urged participants to bespeak connected however Ghana could physique a improvement way that grew steadily crossed administrations.

He said spot was earned erstwhile promises made to citizens were followed by accordant delivery.

Mr Afful said policymakers indispensable deliberation beyond the 2026 Budget and Ghana’s expected exit from the IMF programme.

According to him, the state indispensable specify its ain way alternatively than depending connected outer unit to behave responsibly.

“We are susceptible of defining our ain affairs, truthful we request to rethink however we spell guardant from here,” helium said.

He encouraged experts to usher governmental leaders to signifier a nationalist docket that would past predetermination years.

He added that improvements successful ostentation and speech complaint stableness should beryllium utilized to physique momentum into 2026.