{"id":95260,"date":"2015-02-28T17:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=95260"},"modified":"2015-02-28T15:53:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T15:53:27","slug":"govt-is-behaving-like-captain-planet-franklin-cudjoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=95260","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t is behaving like &#8216;Captain Planet&#8217; &#8211; Franklin Cudjoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The President of the think thank,\u00a0IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe likened\u00a0government&#8217;s planning for development projects to the actions of the cartoon character \u201cCaptain Planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;aF83jxMFaS5YmJj7wKhFivjnrjV6gphQ&#8221;]According to him, government has been talking about infrastructural projects it is undertaking to create the impression that it is addressing all the country\u2019s challenges at once.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernment also makes it appear as if it is captain planet. It has to do everything. All the references to roads, every little hamlet has got a borehole and it has to be mentioned. These things are even done by the worst form of governments because it has propaganda value,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin Cudjoe, who was speaking on <strong>Citi FM<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0<strong>The Big Issue<\/strong>\u00a0on Saturday,\u00a0said the Government&#8217;s constant reminders of the projects it is undertaking was unnecessary.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67022\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67022\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67022\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Franklin-Cudjoe.jpg\" alt=\"Franklin Cudjoe\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Franklin-Cudjoe.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Franklin-Cudjoe-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Franklin Cudjoe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He explained that it was incumbent on every government to improve infrastructure and added that \u201cany government has to construct some road and some pathway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the state of the nation address by the president, Franklin Cudjoe advised government to focus more on transformational programmes such as a national identification system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe big transformational issues, for instance like the national ID system which by now should be in vogue and not have all kinds of organisations doing theirs is a very important matter,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>While admitting that the President\u2019s speech to the nation was beautifully written, Franklin Cudjoe stated that \u201cthere was nothing transformational about the speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Franklin Badu Jnr\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of the think thank,\u00a0IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe likened\u00a0government&#8217;s planning for development projects to the actions of the cartoon character \u201cCaptain Planet.\u201d [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;aF83jxMFaS5YmJj7wKhFivjnrjV6gphQ&#8221;]According to him, government has been talking about infrastructural projects it is undertaking to create the impression that it is addressing all the country\u2019s challenges at once. \u201cGovernment also makes it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":76470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-95260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}