Former Finance Minister and Governor for the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor will be expected to deliver his maiden lecture on how to transform the Ghanaian economy.
Dr. Kwabena Duffuor will be speaking at a forum organized by the Institute of Fiscal Studies on November 29, at the Tang Palace Hotel in Accra.
The lecture will be on the theme "The Ghanaian Dream: Transforming the Economy through Job Creation and Opportunities for All”.
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The former Finance Minister and Governor for the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor has dropped hints of his return into political life following his assertions regarding the significance of the empowerment of chiefs, in an article authored by him that was published in the Business and Financial Times on Monday, September 6, 2021.
In the article, the Former Minister recounted how indispensable the chiefs and traditional authorities have been in his service to the motherland and how appreciative he was about their roles in the administration of the country.
He indicated that, the traditional and chieftaincy system has lost the ability to support itself, and the rippling effects that this has on the country as a whole.
"The loss of our nation's chiefs power has resulted in social problems, a youth detached from tradition and morals, depopulation of our rural areas as well as both economic and spiritual poverty. We as a people need our traditions, they are the core of our great nation, and abandoning them means abandoning the soul of Ghana."
Dr. Duffuor recounted how the replacement of the architecture and administrative structure of the chieftaincy institution with a modernized democratic structure has resulted in consequences which are bedeviling the nation today and advocated for the need to embrace our traditions and maximizing the knowledge from traditional knowledge.
He however indicated how his return to political life will be characterized by a welcoming of our traditional cultures and values, drawing from his past experiences in public service.