{"id":52771,"date":"2014-10-01T15:28:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T15:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=52771"},"modified":"2014-10-01T16:43:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T16:43:10","slug":"ghana-would-have-prospered-under-busia-kufuor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/10\/ghana-would-have-prospered-under-busia-kufuor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana would have prospered under Busia &#8211; Kufuor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Kufour has said Ghana would have been more developed if the Late Professor Busia was allowed to serve his full term of office.<\/p>\n<p>As the youngest Minister under the former Prime Minister Busia, Mr. Kufuor said policies that were introduced by Busia, shot the country to a middle income country in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Today marks 45 years of Professor Busia`s assumption of office as executive Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;lW4JZEFpgbcZej4cwsQmDPYlY5RKyhLH&#8221;]Busia became the Prime Minister of Ghana in 1969 after the Progress Party(PP) won the parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p>He was however overthrown by the army under Colonel Ignatius Kutu in 1972 while seeking medical care in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with<strong> Citi News<\/strong>, the former President said: \u201cthe country would have been a fantastic country because the man believed in the private sector. All over the world people talk of public-private partnership as the way to help societies and economies of nations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he had had his own term, I believe Ghana would have been more developed in a rounded way,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Achievements<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Busia made rural development a priority area. To ensure the success of this policy, a separate ministry &#8211; Ministry of Social and Rural Development (the first of its kind in Ghana) was established.<\/p>\n<p>A number of projects were launched to provide good drinking water, electricity and health facilities for rural communities. By 1972, a total of thirty-three projects, including one which was to make potable water available to twenty villages in the Apam area had been completed.<\/p>\n<p>This went together with a \u00a33.5 million water project at Kwanyako near Agona Swedru and was to serve more than 44,000 inhabitants in twenty-two villages and towns in the Gomoa Akyempim area.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52840\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/busia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52840\" alt=\"Former President of Ghana, Dr. Kofi Abrefi Busia\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/busia.jpg\" width=\"243\" height=\"278\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former President of Ghana, Dr. Kofi Abrefi Busia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Other areas which enjoyed the supply of pipe-borne water were Avoeme, Papase, Prampram, Danfa and Pantang. The Barekese Dam was started.<\/p>\n<p>The project was, when completed, to supply water for over one million people in the Greater Kumasi area and over 72 sub-urban towns and villages within 20 miles radius of Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Rural Electrification Scheme, a total of fifty-eight towns and villages were connected to the national grid. Some of the towns which now enjoyed power from Akosombo were Nsuta, Biriwa, Kade, Suhum, and Somanya.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah, with additional information from wikipedia\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Kufour has said Ghana would have been more developed if the Late Professor Busia was allowed to serve his full term of office. As the youngest Minister under the former Prime Minister Busia, Mr. Kufuor said policies that were introduced by Busia, shot the country to a middle income country in Africa. 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