Technocrats, he claims, are valuable assets to the country, but they are unable to speak up because of the anti- or pro-government label. The financial expert said, “We need to build a culture in which technocrats are free to speak. Very often technocrats are very quiet, they don’t say much for fear of offending government or some of the political leaders, but we need to have technocrats who are open”. He stated, “Generally, government’s COVID-19 strategy has been seen as a good strategy but occasionally there have been lapses. However, overall, I wouldn’t say Ghana has not had a respectable COVID-19 strategy.”“What we need to do is to accelerate the support we’re giving to businesses, so they can start re-employing, bringing idle capacity to work,” Dr. Sam Mensah concluded.

Source: GhanaWeb August 10, 2021 17:03 UTC