The Greater Regional Chairman of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Dr Alex Lutterodt has advised the NPP administration to desist from the culture of feeding the public with statistical data, which are meaningless and cannot improve the standard of leaving of the ordinary people.

Addressing party supporters at a consultative meeting held in Accra, he said there is a great deal of direction and initiative that the state-sector is bound to give in the development of the national economy, which cannot be so easily done by the private sector, whose primary aim is profit and not the national interest.

Dr Lutterodt added that it is against this background that investors shy away from putting their moneys in important national projects where the social benefits are more than the private benefits.

He noted that over-reliance of foreign-exchange ownership and monopoly in the national economy marginalises the role of the state, influence neo-colonialism and undermines Ghana’s independence.

The Evening News, which carries the story, reports that Dr Lutterodt advised the NPP administration not to underestimate the unique role that the state-sector plays in the development of the country.