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Must the media hush over what is driving Ghana backwards, shielding its sponsors? Shmuel Ja’Mba Abm writes

Virtually, we import second-hand underwear. So far, we are in the process to start importing used condoms and toothbrushes to Ghana.

We strip rail tracks to sabotage the construction of rail transport seen to compete with private bulk haulage and logistics movements transport business in Ghana.

One of the most celebrated things after the December 7, 2016 elections was the glee expressed by taxi and trotro drivers and owners at seeing the tearing down of Bus Rapid Transport pilot project, which stretched from Amasaman Terminal point to the Accra Police Regional Command at Tudu.

Targeted knock and kill of Okada operators isn’t ruled out of the account of the massive toll of accidents, all in efforts to ensure the commercial intra city and inter city transport remained in the hands of private operators. It is the key issue public transport operations like Metro Transport and STC is grappling with private operators since their establishment in the country.

Of course, thanks to February 24, 1966, putschists and their Second Republic terrorists apologists since metamorphosed into the New ‘Patriotic’ Party, which is anything but not certainly patriotic or new, the above observations have festered into norm to ridicule nkokɔ nketenkete, the realisation of Aveyime Rice Project, the survival of Komenda Sugar Factory, Kumasi Jute Factory, since supply contractors prefer to import in all cases of poultry products, rice, sugar and jute sacks to reap huge profits.

Care should be taken in the realisation of the strategic Tema Harbour-Impakadan Railway project and warehousing, and the revamp of the idle Volta Lake Transport to its near-fuller potentials in the bulk haulage and logistics movements responsible in several ways for the deterioration of expensive asphalt overlays on highways and trunk roads of the country.

That the media is quiet and not loud at exposing such insidious systematic sabotage of state investment aimed primarily to lead the regulation and standardisation of public transport and control of export and import to protect local producers of import substitution as expected but engage in sensational politics, is part of the whole plot.

The state under HE John Dramani Mahama must consciously engage and vigorously invest in the National Security architecture to its fullest functional and operational potentials to assert its control and right of protection of national assets, especially National Critical Infrastructure.

©️ Shmuel Ja’Mba Abm
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