A governance analyst at the Center for Democratic Development (CDD), Dr Franklin Oduro has stated that the leadership of the Industrial and Commercial workers Union (ICU) cannot be faulted for blaming the country’s economic challenges on ineffective leadership.
[contextly_sidebar id=”RWfvgiryRHf0sbPw7cg503VrPHREXNuS”]In an interview with Citi News, Dr. Oduro noted that leadership holds the responsibility for either good or bad performance hence his support for the claims.
Ghana has been struggling to salvage the ailing economy and has thus sought financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Government received heavy public backlash for the many socio-economic problems the country was bedeviled with and their inability to resolve them.
The ICU has accused President John Mahama of appointing persons the union described as “square pegs in round holes” to occupy leadership positions in government.
An executive member of the union, Eliazer Nyaunu told Citi News “most people running the affairs of government have no business being there.”
Dr. Oduro backed their assertion saying, “…if anybody is making an evaluation or a judgment on the performance of government, it’s not wrong for that person or that group to blame the leadership of the country as being responsible for non-performance.”
He said the person or group critiquing the government can do so if “certain policies and programmes or people who have been put in place to manage the affairs are not doing that critically.”
The governance analyst appealed to government to at all times seek to recruit the persons with the needed expertise to help them govern the nation.
He pointed out that “governance is a process that combines skill, expertise and combine human relations, knowledge to perform.”
“If you are a leader and you are looking for people to help you manage affairs, I think you need to look at all these factors in terms of who is this person that I am entrusting this particular institution or department and what are the expectations,” he advised.
Dr. Oduro mentioned that if government appointees are delivering, “then that is fine but if the person is not delivering, then I think it’s the responsibility of the leader to ensure that the right person is put there.”
By: Efua Idan Osam/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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