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Leadership agenda setting is job for government - Bagbin
Accra, Feb. 12, Ghanadot/GNA - Mr Alban
Bagbin, Minority Leader on Tuesday said it was always
prudent for government to set an agenda on issues of
leadership qualities, economic and the political direction
of the nation.
He said through discourse, brainstorming and suggestions, a
refined national policy could be attained therefore,
government should not relegate its responsibilities to the
media to set the agenda because the media in their
enthusiasm to sell their products they come out with
sensational issues, which made the public to go on the
binge, neglecting tackling of pressing national issues.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in an interview on current
diatribe on two presidential candidates, Mr Bagbin said it
was rather the government which should establish leadership
qualities that was needed for the governance of the country.
The Minority Leader noted that most political parties had
not yet evolved the kind of leadership they had to have and
whether that leader should be vibrant, knowledgeable, fit to
lead the country, which should not become a pawn to
international or global manipulations.
“And again do the people who elect their leaders understand
geopolitics so that the country could fit into globalisation
and have a competitive advantage”, he asked.
Mr Bagbin said, government should empower the National
Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) to educate the public
on leadership issues, quality of leadership and the
characteristics of leaders.
He said, it was also necessary for papers to be presented to
the Institute of Economics Affairs (IEA) and the Ghana
Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA)
and other allied bodies to brainstorm on socio-economic
issues within a context.
Such research works and presentations, coming from informed
sources should lead to national debates that would form the
basis for policies.
He said, it was here that the media’s role was critical to
national development.
Mr Bagbin said it was unfortunate that, “We pay a lot of
attention to social and political rights than to economic
rights”.
He said, “free speech, which is also a right could lead to
destruction if one had no economic life.”
GNA
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