Business magnate and economist Dr Kofi Amoah says government’s digitalization agenda will be futile without an enabling environment for jobs.
“As much as digitalization is presented as a spoke in the wheel of development, it’s an expensive joke,” Citizen Kofi, as he is popularly known, wrote on his social media handle on Friday, January 12.
“It’s crazy to build an expensive payment police system in a bankrupt country where majority of the people have no payments coming to them because they have no jobs.”
He was replying to a post on X, formerly Twitter, by Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia about the launch of a digital solution to eliminate ‘ghost’ names from the government payroll.
Dr Kofi Amoah says there are a lot of ‘walking ghosts’ whose plights have been a result of policies of the government.
THERE ARE LOTS OF “WALKING GHOSTS” IN GHANA … The corruption and joblessness programs of the npp have “drained”their lives away…
As much as DIGITALIZATION is presented as a spoke in the wheel of development, it’s an expensive joke!!
It’s crazy to build an expensive payment… https://t.co/wjKkx1ZauP
— CitizenKofi (@amoah_citizen) January 12, 2024
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THERE ARE LOTS OF “WALKING GHOSTS” IN GHANA …
The corruption and joblessness programs of the NPP have “drained” their lives away…
As much as DIGITALIZATION is presented as a spoke in the wheel of development, it’s an expensive joke!!
It’s crazy to build an expensive payment police system in a bankrupt country where majority of the people have no payments coming to them because they have no JOBS!
This can only become necessary when the corrupt practices of a nation’s political elite has become an entrenched culture that has seeped into the fabric of society
The cost of eliminating the npp-type of corruption is huge and requires a never-ending and expensive series of remedies, with the potential of each remedy also requiring its own policing digital portal at some point
Digitalization in a bankrupt
jobs-starved country is like building a bridge to nowhere
Let our political leadership set good examples by not looting the public purse and using the money to create JOBS for the people
Our ears have been hurting with sermons on digitalization for too long whilst corruption and unemployment rage on
Let’s get our priorities properly aligned to serve the burning needs of Ghanaians … JOBS
Good-paying JOBS pls!