Financial Analyst, Sydney Casely Hayford has hit hard at political parties in Ghana saying they are only interested in winning elections and not proper governance.
According to him the confusion that characterizes the operations of the various political parties in the country is due to the get ‘rich quick through politics’ mindset.
Speaking on Citi FM’s news analysis programme The Big Issue, Casely Hayford said such mindset if not changed will retard Ghana’s development.
Casely Hayford who was speaking in relation to the current standoff within the New Patriotic Party (NPP) argued that political parties devise several mechanisms to win elections because “they want to become powerful. By getting power, they therefore get the opportunity to do whatever that they want. Whether they want to govern, or they want to cheat or steal or divert funds, the power gives them that opportunity to do so.”
He said “that is the cracks of the problem that we have. We have foot soldiers, executives, people jockeying for positions, for power, trying to make themselves relevant within the party structures so that eventually they will become some powerful people [in the society].”
Casely Hayford also reiterated that “…We have sold the idea into the minds of people who are our political followers that if you become a minister or leader of a powerful committee in Parliament you have the opportunity to make money.”
