Dr. Cadman Atta Mills, The Honorary President of SOLIDAIRE GHANA, has said  that the new year will not bring much needed prosperity and development for Ghanaians. 

According to The Honorary President of SOLIDAIRE GHANA, the economy will continue to struggle, as a result of the government’s failure to implement much legal and institutional reforms that will help protect the public purse and also checkmate managers of the economy.

“Knowing how difficult the past year was, due to the near collapse of our economy, we would have wished to bring good tidings to the suffering masses of Ghana, ahead of the new year.” He said.

The brother of Late President Prof John Evans Atta Mills who has been a strong advocate for the adoption of a new constitution blamed the government for the near collapse of the economy last year and demanded that a new legal regime be adopted to avoid that situation in the future.

He added “…we note that the paradigm shift in Ghana’s body politic, that Solidaire Ghana has been calling for, is far from being tabled for a national debate. The systemic reforms underpinning the paradigm shift are condition precedents for the realization of Ghana’s attempts to surmount the current economic and governance challenges and be able to build back our economy in record time.”

We use this opportunity to call on the current President Nana Akufo-Addo government, to revisit the Constitutional Reforms started by the Ghanaian government in 2011, in order to bring into fruition the many institutional checks and balances needed for rapid, sustainable and equitable growth. 

We further demand, that stakeholders be invited to prepare draft bills on Political Party Financing, develop a new Procurement Act and table an enhanced Local Government system that will enhance quality of governance in our country.

It is our considered view, that the passage of such new laws, will go a long way to help Ghana return to the path of progress and development.