The Presidential Special Initiatives (PSI) introduced in the erstwhile Kufour government is the brainchild of Alan Kyerematen, Mr Richard Nyamah, Deputy Spokesperson of NPP Flagbearer Hopeful Alan Kyerematen, has said.
He said the PSI was a blueprint envisioned and implemented by Mr Kyerematen in the Kufour government and not Kwamina Bartels as some persons were ignorantly and deliberately purporting.
Mr Nyamah said this during an interview on Metro TV in reaction to a false claim made by one Mr Charles Nii Teiko Tagoe that the PSI initiative was not implemented by Alan because the latter was in the United States as an Ambassador in President Kufour’s first term.
Mr Nyamah stressed that Alan Kyerematen envisioned and presented the PSI initiative to President Kufour in 2000, after which a cabinet inter-ministerial committee was constituted and chaired by President Kufour on the initiatives.
Mr Nyamah indicated that, though, Hon Kyerematen was in the United States of America as an Ambassador from 2001 to 2003, during the first term of President Kufour, it was his brainchild that was deliberated upon by the team constituted by the former President, of which he (Alan) was the coordinator, to look into the initiatives.
No wonder upon his return to the country in 2003, the PSIs were added to his new portfolio as Minister of Trade and Industry to spearhead and implement the initiatives to boost Ghana’s local economy and industrialization drive.