Togbega Gabusu, Paramount Chief of Gbi Traditional Area, has called for a paradigm shift from rhetoric to full-fledged action towards integration of the continent for socio-economic advancement.

“It is more prime and relevant to forge continental networks than the forbearers thought decades ago,” he said in an interview with the GNA to mark Africa Union Day that coincided with the 23rd anniversary if his installation.

He said posterity would bear grudge against the failing leadership in Africa if drastic measures were not taken to promote continental unity.

“If strength lies in unity, then we cannot continue to gamble with our collective destiny and only leadership could chart a genuine path for rapid integration,” he said.

He said the continent had become a bastion of hopelessness, insecurity both in the political arena and in food production, plagued with disease and squalor and that he feared the next 50 years would be wasted without results.

Togbega Gabusu said Africa has both human and material resources and the market to excel when these resources are harnessed. He appealed to the continent’s leaders to be assertive and take their chances well.

He appealed to politicians to be civil in their utterances in the build-up to the December general elections and urged Ghanaians to demonstrate maturity at the polls without spilling a pint of blood.**