Former Chief Executive Officer of the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme, NEIP, Kofi Ofosu Nkansah, has called for urgent and practical measures to ease Ghana’s transportation challenges, urging government to balance long term innovation with immediate relief for commuters.
Speaking on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana with host Moro Awudu, the New Patriotic Party communication team member said Ghana must rely on intelligence and strategic use of resources to reduce pressure on citizens, drawing lessons from developed countries.
He argued that even if Ghana lacks the technical capacity to assemble electric vehicles locally, it could still leverage its natural resources, including cocoa, to attract technology and expertise from abroad to build a strong industrial base.
According to him, such an approach would help establish a thriving heavy industry capable of addressing transportation challenges in the long term. However, he stressed that immediate solutions were still needed to reduce the daily stress faced by commuters.
Ofosu Nkansah questioned the outcomes of recent stakeholder engagements led by Vice President Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang, asking what concrete steps had been taken to ease congestion and rising transport costs.
He called for clarity on whether government was considering temporary subsidies, engaging transport unions such as the Ghana Private Road Transport Union, or conducting congestion analysis to guide urgent interventions.
Responding to his concerns, the Press Secretary and Spokesperson to the Vice President, Maame Ama Pratt, said the situation had significantly improved following the Vice President’s engagement with stakeholders on Friday.
She stated that conditions on the ground had changed for the better and insisted that whatever actions were taken by the Vice President had resolved the immediate problem.
Ama Pratt dismissed suggestions that the Vice President’s visits to ministries were merely symbolic, describing them as intentional, structured and impactful engagements aimed at offering direct support.
She said such hands on involvement by a vice president was unprecedented and should be judged by results rather than perception.
According to her, the true measure of leadership is whether interventions are improving the lives of Ghanaians, adding that the Vice President’s actions were producing positive outcomes.
“The situation today is better than it was on Friday, and that tells us the intervention worked,” she said.
