Professor John Gatsi, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Coast, Thursday, said asking the two major political parties to resolve political vigilantism in the country is a narrow approach.
He said the country’s security challenge should be tackled holistically by all stakeholders because it was much broader and complex.
He said the recent surge in contract killings, robberies, kidnappings, land guard menace, among others, should be tackled with a much strategic approach, instead of asking the two major political parties to resolve one of them.
Prof. Gatsi, also the Head of the Finance Department of the University, told the Ghana News Agency in an interview, to express his views on the President’s State of the Nation address delivered to Parliament on Thursday.
President Akufo-Addo asked the leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and National Democratic Congress (NDC) to come together and agree on appropriate measures to end the phenomenon of political vigilantism.
The President said he had personally asked the leadership of the NPP to extend an invitation to the leadership of NDC for such a meeting to happen and, thus, suggested next week as a preferable date.
Prof. Gatsi objected to the approach, saying that, the nation’s security was critical because it defined the business investment environment and should be handled with the involvement of all the security agencies and other key stakeholders.
With regard to the performance of the macro-economy, he acknowledged reduction in inflation, policy rate, increase in economic growth and other indicators, but said he would have loved to hear the President mentioned the number of jobs and opportunities created as well as revenues generated with the stabilisation of those indicators.
He said the nation could not glorify in macroeconomic statistics without translating into physical infrastructural development and wellbeing of the people,
Source: GNA
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you even shot yourself at your own foot with your comments "He said the country’s security challenge should be tackled holistically by all stakeholders because it was much broader and complex. He said the recent surge in contract killings, robberies, kidnappings, land guard menace, among others, should be tackled with a much strategic approach, instead of asking the two major political parties to resolve one of them." Is the issue about vigilantism or those things you've mentioned above i expect a whole professor if indeed you really are one to deduce statements before making pronouncements. No wonder we have a bunch of illiterate graduates who cannot do anything or think of their own after university because their lecturers themselves are full of sh1t
Some people just want to be heard.
PROF., A JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES, BEGINS WITH A STEP. BY WISDOM, THE PRESIDENT IS LEAD TO BEGIN WITH NDC & NPP. I BELIEVE OTHER STAKEHOLDERS WOULD BE BROUGHT IN AS WE MOVE. LONG LIVE GHANA, LONG LIVE THE PRESIDENT.
Prof. I know you teach us that problem solving sometimes comes from the conflicting parties first, if it does not work then they engage third parties to mediate, if not then use other strategies. Now we have the first approach and you are talking what....