MEMORANDUM

From: Mr. A. Poku-Gyimah, APG, in Central Valley in California, U.S.A.

To: His Excellency - The President of The Republic of Ghana

Cc: Diaspora Ghanaians, Ghanaians at Home

Date: May 5rd, 2009

Subject: Suggestion: Return Of Ghanaian Experts Home

Please I urge you to fully consider the following advisory notice thoughtfully and thoroughly, remembering that the development of our country is in its infant but critical stages. This notice is to inform, perhaps remind you of the need for you to mention to your Western counterparts, as you meet with them one-on-one and/or in groups, for the first time, about the need for them to assist us in returning Ghanaian experts home on democratic arrangements in order for us to facilitate the development process – the cornerstone of our long-wished democracy - now at hand- and partly by the mercy of the West.

Although, I have no figures to substantiate my advisory message and suggestion, Mr. President, my experience shows that the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan have a large number of Ghanaian experts and artisans – these experts hold their authority on healthcare, the physical and social sciences, accounting, administration and management, planning and architecture, policing, military, education, to mention but a few. It is my fervent believe and understanding that if you give your Western counterparts a forehand notice during your initial visit to them and subsequently follow it up for thorough negotiations, at least Student Loans of the Ghanaian experts in these countries will be forgiven, to allow for their return home to participate in the radical but very, very careful approaches to our national development initiative.

Confidently, if we plan very well, we can guarantee that the opportunities and benefits of democracy will put a smile on our faces at last, and the enemies of democracy defeated for good. Consequently, our children, youth and the future generation would be in a better shape.

This memorandum has been submitted to you very late, I am very sorry, sir; but I have been seriously working on children and youth issues, which will later come to your desk. I request our Vice President telephone you of the content of this memo, should this reaches your office in your absence.

Thank you very much and I wish you a safe journey to and fro. Bye, bye, Mr. President! Don’t stay too long!