Comments on: Akufo-Addo’s gov’t not inclusive yet – Federation of Disability https://citifmonline.com/2017/02/akufo-addos-govt-not-inclusive-yet-federation-of-disability/ Ghana News | Ghana Politics | Ghana Soccer | Ghana Showbiz Fri, 03 Feb 2017 14:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.8 By: Obuobi Gregory https://citifmonline.com/2017/02/akufo-addos-govt-not-inclusive-yet-federation-of-disability/#comment-268 Fri, 03 Feb 2017 14:24:00 +0000 http://citifmonline.com/?p=290876#comment-268 GFD needs to appreciate the republic of Ghana is eclipsed, in our running predicament, in a series of disheartening, dis-enabling, killing problems that call for serious study, attention and working at. There is already this problem of underdevelopment, which is endemic and native to our situation, and perturbing illiteracy and ignorance that drag down growth, if tinkered with halfheartedly.

Disabilities fall under another serious category of problems that need tackling in a dimension altogether novel and, perhaps, dis-enabling that should not ever come to thwart economic management growth. Where does Ghana stand in terms of technological growth and development, for example? GFD should come to terms with the problems now that are peculiarly Ghana’s; and appreciate the efforts the past governments and even some international bodies have made, and are making to recognize the disabilities for what they are. GFD need to study a lecture I gave sometime ago on the blind and the white cane. The crippled are human! Acknowledged! The blind are human beings! Accepted. But for the sake of nationhood building to any appreciable precision growth and development at the pace our predicament calls for GFD need to pause and think in the demands they make for their quests.

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