Thinking Ghana

Techno-Optimist African | Human capital, systems & technology | Building frameworks for an Africa renaissance @ The Kernel

[Thinking Ghana @ThinkingGhana]

Bro @manifestive if you strip away the noise, the biggest problem in Ghana is not corruption, not poverty, not even leadership individually.

👉 It is weak and poorly designed institutions that allow elite capture.

Everything else flows from that. 🧵

[M.anifest @manifestive]

What’s the biggest problem in Ghana

[Thinking Ghana @ThinkingGhana]

@bigrich_4 @CitizenTechiman Why is the gov not sacking all of them?
Doctors are not party bots aka fool soldiers. They can monetize their skills outside Ghana

[Thinking Ghana @ThinkingGhana]

@bigrich_4 @CitizenTechiman Lmao I guess you have no idea what contract means 🤣🤣🤣

[Thinking Ghana @ThinkingGhana]

Ofori Atta should be next or you say it was Create, Loot and Share?

[Manasseh Azure Awuni @Manasseh_Azure]

God, please, give that judge wisdom to rule that someone with a history of running away should not be granted bail, if they apply.

[Thinking Ghana @ThinkingGhana]

Punishing the messenger won't fix sh!t but Rockson is unable to reason around it.

Humans are biased naturally but let's try to suppress it and think objectively sometimes

[Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, Esq. MP. @etsedafeamekpor]

1. This is the front page of the Daily Graphic. A govt- sponsored newspaper that has for some strange reasons decided to gloss over major positive govt activities but instead focus on negative happenings.

2. As we speak, the Prez is in Europe seeking investments from the British and Belarusians for the Nation. A major news item

3. As we speak, the Vice Prez has toured some flood prone areas in Accra and visited Alajo in the company of the Interior Minister, GAR Minister, Accra Mayor etc. A major news item

4. As we speak, Govt has successfully evacuated nearly 1000 Ghanaians stranded in South Africa due to xenophobic attacks. A major news item

5. Yet, the Editor of the Daily Graphic has once again, deliberately decided to highlight on its front page, a strike action by KATH doctors because the CEO has been suspended by the KATH Board for some alleged admin misjudgments pending investigations. Nobody is above the law. We are all subject to discipline of the law.

6. So for Daily Graphic to highlight what’s really a disciplinary issue render major govt policy moves as footnotes on its front page is journalistically most undesirable.

I leave it here…….

[Thinking Ghana @ThinkingGhana]

@Republican369 Eco chamber, that's how the algos work

[Thinking Ghana @ThinkingGhana]

@Goodmanxy @CitizenTechiman Fix the foundation (primary care + referrals). You can't demand accountability when you've absconded from your responsibility

We love treating symptoms

[Thinking Ghana @ThinkingGhana]

@MPKwarteng_ succinct. doctors are the smartest in the society right. all over the country they run a parallel delivery system. The politician is supervising a broken system. That's why your choice of a minister should be someone who understands the system and can fix it

[Thinking Ghana @ThinkingGhana]

@Goodmanxy @CitizenTechiman You're putting the cart before the horse.

In the USA, there's a horse and the cart is behind it.

That's when you can make a comparison

Over here, it's a compromise. The state provides inadequate so can't complain about indiscipline

Same for school under trees vs teachers

[Thinking Ghana @ThinkingGhana]

Nana Addo was saying same
Now prez Mahama is also saying same
Ken Agyapong too saying same
All are crying about indiscipline SMFH.

Mediocrity in wholesale

Can they get civil engineers to at least help them refine their thinking?

Britain is an island ffs

[Saint Frederick @cleric_fred]

@edemagbana @jo_ooxo A young politician like you should be advocating for long term engineering fixes—- human settlement planning, relocating slums, law enforcement, constructing world class bridges, etc …. Not mediocre solutions like Ramsar site demolitions

[Thinking Ghana @ThinkingGhana]

@edemagbana No. I heard you saying the flooding is not engineering + lack of enforcement problem but purely because Ghanaians are indisciplined. Pay attention to him.

We should reason from first principle.

If humans are discipline, what's the point of legislatures, courts, police, etc?

[Thinking Ghana @ThinkingGhana]

@NanaKENNEY_MIM Rules are flexible for the elite

[Thinking Ghana @ThinkingGhana]

Ghana operates on a system where:

1. rules are flexible for the powerful
2. access matters more than competence
2. institutions serve networks, not citizens
4. short-term survival beats long-term development

That’s what we call elite capture of institutions

[Thinking Ghana @ThinkingGhana]

@General_K33 @BenedictaKemi Dmed you

[Thinking Ghana @ThinkingGhana]

@NanaKENNEY_MIM Agreed. Things will get better when enough citizens demand accountability.

There's no reason to wait for 4yes cycle to just rotate faces but with the same brains and template.

We won't allow them to play nonsense again and walk away with a lot of money after 8 years

[Thinking Ghana @ThinkingGhana]

My only hope now Mr. President @JDMahama

[Thinking Ghana @ThinkingGhana]

People born in the 2000s at least have tasted NPP 8 years business as usual. And now their comrades NDC are in the driver's seats.

I'm an optimist, I only hope HIS @JDMahama can wake up, be bold and tell the NETWORK: Enough is Enough, let's build a nation this time.

[Thinking Ghana @ThinkingGhana]

Sorry MPK but now you know why we must stop praising politicians for doing nothing

If we all decide to fanfool nppndc for 400gh, there will be no Ghana

KATH serves North, BA, part of Eastern + Western

I saw @MaameEsiGold asking google if 37 beds at EMC is the world standard

[MPK 𓃵 @MPKwarteng_]

When Ghana happened to me at KATH in 2018, my old boy was attended to after 18 hours having traveled 3-hours in an ambulance to get there.

Emergency healthcare was not closed yet healthcare provision delayed. Imagine we had gotten there only to be told the facility is closed to new cases. That would have been an eyesore!

There is no way I will ever support any health facility’s closure regardless the undergirding principle.

I took to facebook (my then favorite social media platform) to bark after it all made sense on June 6, 2018. Money finished, old boy gone, eye cleared then!

[Thinking Ghana @ThinkingGhana]

@gemini_dna Bro why are we housing non-Accra MPs in Accra?
It's never made a single sense to me.
If this guy lives in his village and joining the discussion via the internet with the 3G over there and waking up everyday with the plight of his villagers, he won't be saying all this trash

[Thinking Ghana @ThinkingGhana]

The Thinking Ghana Dilemma: Ghanaian politicians are useless in government and useful in opposition.

The NPP party that was chase out from gov because of corruption, ineptitude, and brain-deadness are all of a sudden gotten perfect solutions to all of Ghana's problems? Wt Fk bro

[Big Daddy Shaky 爸活动的⁸👑🦍 @BigDaddyShaky]

The least said the better

[Thinking Ghana @ThinkingGhana]

@BigDaddyShaky This has been the case since 1966 but I'm happy engineering minds like Koo Boateng and others are showing up.

Soon we will close the gap so idiots won't have a free pass in public service. It will be expensive for certified idiots in NPPNDC to misbehave