Ghana Church Leaders Call for Agenda for National Development

The Christian Council of Ghana has launched the “Ghana we want” agenda campaign to encourage the country’s leaders to come up with a 50-year national development program, says Rev. Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong, General Secretary of the group. “We have launched public awareness program just trying to engage government, engage civil society the need for us to have a long term planning for the development of our nation. It must be done, or else development remains firefighting; people come to...

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