The Ghanaian Voice reports that the disastrous fiasco recorded recently at the Banquet Hall of the State House in Accra, where a fund-raising luncheon in aid of the National Science and Technology Foundation (NASTEF), had to be called off due to the failure of guests to turn up, has been blamed on the NDC government of only paying lip-service to science and technology in the country. The paper says according to a top industrialist who pleaded anonymity, it was pathetic that after nearly 42 years of independence, Ghana has no clear science and technology policy. “Every now and then the Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology, announces that the government is preparing a science and technology policy but this policy never seems to be ready”, his quoted as saying adding, “everything is done on an ad-hoc basis”. The industrialist is reported to have questioned how the country can develop if at the dawn of the next millennium, “we continue to behave this way towards science and technology which is known to have propelled other nations to their present heights”.
