Make nonpartisan contributions on national issues - Ken Ashigbey
The Managing Director of the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL), Mr Kenneth Ashigbey, has called on professional bodies to make nonpartisan contributions to issues pertaining to national development.
He said the bodies had failed the nation in their inability to discuss issues dispassionately devoid of political interest.
“Professional bodies have failed us because they have got so much involved in partisan politics to the extent that the real issues are not addressed,” he added.
Delegation
Mr Ashigbey made the call when the President of the Institute of Certified Economists of Ghana (ICEG), Professor Peter Tuffuo-Asubonteng, led a delegation to pay a courtesy call on him in Accra yesterday.
The visit was to foster relations between the two institutions to facilitate the economic development of the country.
The discussions, therefore, focused on how the two institutions could cooperate to provide a platform that would help disseminate factual and research-based analysis and information on issues pertaining to the economic development of the county.
The ICEG is a professional body aimed at regulating the activities and general conduct of economists. It also promotes professional economics in the country.
Assurance
Mr Ashigbey gave an assurance that the Daily Graphic and the Graphic Business would feature analyses and research works of the institute, such as budget reviews, taxation and political party manifestos.
According to him, both organisations had the similar mandate of helping the country’s development, hence the need for effective collaboration to promote that agenda.
ICEG
Giving a brief background to the institute, Prof. Tuffuo-Asubonteng said it was a corporate organisation made up of about 400 economists.
The institute has been in existence for the past 18 years.
The objective of the institute, he indicated, was to inculcate professionalism and specialisation into the economics profession, as well as contribute to the development of the country.
He said even though the institute was not popular, it was time for members to voice out their expertise on national issues with objectivity.
Prof. Tuffuo-Asubonteng added that professionals needed to concentrate on applying the knowledge they had acquired to support the government with solution-based measures to deal with the challenges confronting the nation.
He further indicated that a strategic partnership was needed with the GCGL to educate the public on economic issues by breaking down economic jargons for the average Ghanaian to understand.
