The 40-year development plan initiated by the National Development Planning Committee will be altered, Senior Minister designate, Mr Yaw Osafo Marfo has revealed.
“I don’t believe in planning in excess of 10 years because of the stringency of world economics, and therefore I would prefer that we restrict ourselves to a 10-year development plan. I have made some inputs into it relating to infrastructure and energy,” he told the appointment committee of Parliament during his vetting on Friday January 20, 2017.
The NDPC in 2015 launched the process to prepare a 40-year development plan for Ghana (2018-2057) based on recommendations of the 2010 Constitution Review Commission.
The plan is expected to bind governments to a vision lasting till the country attains 100 years.
President Mahama who officially launched the process said countries that had achieved high income growth and socio-economic prosperity were those who had implemented long-term development plans with some consistency, be it formal or informal.
He, therefore, called on all Ghanaians to eschew partisan political considerations and to work together in the national interest to produce a long-term National Development Plan for Ghana.
But Mr Osafo Marfo told the appointment committee the NPP government would review that plan and shorten the span.
“The NDPC met the whole caucus of the NPP at our headquarters to discuss initially the 40-year development plan. The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and I expressed our views on the length…” he revealed.
He stated however “now that we are in power, we are surely going to have a critical look at that programme and we are not going to swallow it hook, line and sinker.
“We’ll look at the 40-year-plan; it is important that every country like Ghana gets a long -term plan, particularly with respect to infrastructure, so that there will be continuity. So we will definitely look at it and where modifications are necessary, we’ll make it after going through.”
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