An independent candidate Marricke Kofi Gane has discounted headline policies set out by successive governments in Ghana, reducing them to mere populist and vote-buying gimmicks.

According to the presidential hopeful, Ghana is on its knees in the league of developing nations because politicians have failed to think through smart policies that touch on the very core of development in the country.

Speaking to Ultimate News’ Ivan Heathcote – Fumador, Mr Gane asserted, “I think our leaders are continuously in the mode of trying to win elections rather than developing Ghana.

“Whatever they do is either geared towards a populist agenda and not what will necessarily work for Ghana or that they want to do something that benefits them,” he lamented.

He described as embarrassing, the mere proposition of a new parliamentary chamber for legislators when the country has not yet sheltered children studying under trees.

Gane was of the view that President Nana Akufo-Addo deserved no plaudits for his introduction of the Free Senior High School policy because “it is guaranteed by the constitution and should have been done a long time ago.”

Assessing the 1 Village 1 Dam initiative on the same score of populism, he questioned, “was it ever in the interest of the people to build these dams. Because if it were, they would have been built and it would have been serving the interest of the people.”

The sole presidential hopeful took it out hard on road projects a majority of which per his scale; were built just to please chiefs with no consideration for its overarching value in the wider good.

“We don’t build roads because this particular road would serve four purposes in Agriculture, health access, in tourism and in logistics. Because then you will be serving or delivering more value than just having some chief being happy that a road has passed through his village,”

Gane is currently on a nationwide tour galvanizing support for his 2020 presidential bid. He is promising a new wave of development that will bring about the national transformation that Ghanaians have long been searching for.