Planting for Food and Jobs, SADA show NPP & NDC are failures at policy implementation – Ohene Ntow

The Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) under the erstwhile NDC administration and the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) by the governing NPP, together with other projects, failed, due to lack of policy integration.

Ghana is at a point where policy integration should be adopted and ensure that people render proper account for projects that are left under their care, according to Nana Ohene Ntow.

The senior policy advisor to Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen, founder of the Movement for Change, has said both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) failed in many of the projects they embarked on because they only focused on the short term.

Making his contribution on the cost of living crises on TV3’s KeyPoints Saturday, July 20, 2024, the former General Secretary of the NPP noted that most of the policies governments have introduced failed because they were unsustainable.

He indicated that the challenges that led to the collapse of those policies are what the founder of the Movement for Change, Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen, has identified, and is ready to address to ensure Ghanaians have value for their money.

“One of the biggest problems that Alan has identified and articulated as being the reason why our agriculture for example has failed, and many other sectors have really not done so well, –short term view of the things we do, unsustainability of the policies that we put in place, poor management of the investment itself, poor public accountability of the investment we put in and the weak leveraging of the role that the private sector can’t play,” he disclosed.

Nana Ohene Ntow added that his discovery from the SADA project, juxtaposed with the Planting for Food and Jobs, put both the NPP and NDC in the same bracket, making them failures of policy implementation.

“According to the information I found, SADA tree planting was also supposed to plant 5 million trees and at the end of the project, they accounted for 700,000 trees having spent all the money anyway.

“Then you go to SADA guinea fowl, GHC15million, at the end of the project, there was no guinea fowl anywhere. This is exposing the failure of policy both of the NPP and NDC governments,” he asserted.

He was commenting on the cost of living crises which has rendered many Ghanaians hungry, partly caused by the high food inflation resulting from the failure of the government’s Planting for Food and Jobs programme.

His comments follow the Annual Household Income and Expenditure Survey issued by the Ghana Statistical Service which says “about 1.9 million youth aged between 15 and 35 years are; not educated, unemployed, or having any form of education in the third quarter of 2023.”

Source:onuaonline.com