“The president is not a magician to make Ghana develop overnight”- Ex-president Kuffour advises Ghanaians.
FixTheCountry demonstrators were urged by John Agyekum Kufuor to stop acting as if the country was a paradise that had been ruined.
In a recent interview, Ghana’s former president had a message for those behind the FixTheCountry demonstration.
He advised them to stop acting as if someone had a magic wand and could use it to solve all of the country’s issues.
“When did we finish fixing the nation that all of a sudden we are acting as through it was once fixed and someone destroy it? We are still building it. Ghanaians are a lot. When we had independence in 1957, we were only 6 million.
“As I speak now, I believe we are almost 40 million. When we add all those that have travelled. We are only 64 years. The land on which we live hasn’t expanded. Our natural resources haven’t multiplied,” he told Kofi Adomah.
“We are a developing country. We have leadership challenges and we are still making use of the little we have. All the challenges we currently have are because we rushed to make some hasty decisions. At a point, we did not live within our means. We didn’t plan properly.
“We adopted certain foreign culture and ideologies that we didn’t study well enough. We didn’t understand yet we adopted them. We should stop saying fix the country as though there is a magic wand we could just cast and everything will be better,” he established.
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