GHANA MUST OVERCOME POLITICAL POLARISATION (PAGE 14)

The Upper West Regional Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Mr Kofi Adomah, has expressed concern about the polarised nature of the country’s politics and said “ We have to overcome such political polarisation if indeed we want to develop”.
He observed that in situations where others from different political divides saw everything a government in power did to be wrong or demonise it, the country would not achieve it development objectives.
Mr Adomah, who expressed these concerns in an interview with the Daily Graphic in Wa, recalled Ghana’s independence era and that of Malaysia and reiterated that “we keep saying Malaysia came collect palm nut seedlings from Ghana after their independence but now they are far ahead of us”.
This, he said, was because, Ghanaian politicians have failed to see national programmes and projects initiated by previous government.
By so doing, Mr Adomah said, the country cannot be on the right path to development.
He pointed out that the NCCE was working very hard to change this perception by intensifying its training for political party leaders from the national, regional and district levels.
“Training of political party executives would foster unity among them and this would trickle down to the ordinary supporters to also see each other as brother or sister”, he added.
The NCCE director further stressed the need for people in authority to endeavour to integrate into their activities people of the opposite divide and called for a total change from the present winner-takes-all system while encouraging the practice of all inclusiveness to harmonise the unity in the country.
Touching on some of the difficulties confronting the NCCE in the region, Mr Adomah said lack of vehicles, particularly in seven other district offices was hampering the effectiveness of civic education in the region.