The Free Press reports that the statistical records available in Ghana indicate that it was only under the Progress Party government led by Prof. K.A. Busia, that Ghanaians have ever enjoyed real meaningful life.
The paper says according to the records, it was only in 1970/71 that Ghana ever recorded a national gross domestic product (GDP) of 6.7%, compared with 4.5% today. According to the Free Press, this has never been surpassed by any government since then.
The paper says that was the time Mr J.H. Mensah, currently, Minority Leader in Parliament, was the ‘real economic wizard, was the Chancellor of the Exchequer’. The story says that this was disclosed by Mr Albert Kan-Dapaah, MP for Afigya Sekyere West, when he addressed a women’s rally at Mamprobi in Accra at the weekend. Mr Kan-Dapaah, who is also the Minority Spokesman on Mines and Energy, is said to have told the gathering that the Progress Party used the nation’s wealth for its rural development programme because it realised that foreign loans could not sustain any meaningful national development.
