Ghana’s High Commissioner to Namibia and Botswana, Abdul-Rahman Harruna Attah,has called for a fundamental reorientation of how capital is deployed across the continent, urging a decisive shift away from retail and trading activity toward building productive businesses that generate lasting economic value.
Speaking exclusively with Business Outlook Africa, the veteran journalist, publisher and author argued that Africa’s capital is flowing in the wrong direction and until that changes development will remain elusive.
Ghana’s High Commissioner to Namibia and Botswana, H.E. Abdul-Rahman Harruna Attah
“We don’t encourage capital to go to where it should go to.We use capital to build businesses and move away from the entire retail.” he stated
He also called on President Mahama and African leaders to design programs and projects that get young people thinking, working, and contributing to their economies again arguing that any government serious about Africa’s development must start with young people unashamedly and unapologetically.
“He should unashamedly start with the youth, honestly. He should work out programmes and projects and whatever that would involve the young people.I think that is the first thing you should do, get the young people thinking and working again.”he added
In accessing the Ghanaian middle class, the veteran journalist and publisher described the middle class as being part of the “Ghanaian problem” calling them out for exhibiting “greed, selfishness, and incompetence” instead of the middle class meeting to debate innovative architecture or engineering solutions for the nation.
“It is a problem, I’ve always said. Our problem is the Ghanaian middle class.We are the problem. We are the problem. We exhibit all the negative things.Greed. Selfishness. Incompetence.Everything we exhibit. Corruption. Just look at us.But nothing. We don’t see any creative structure coming out of how we interact with each other. I don’t see us sitting amongst ourselves talking architecture.No, I don’t. Honest. I don’t see us sitting amongst ourselves talking engineering.” he stated .
