A team of experts has been reviewing President Mills 100 days in office. Put together by the Danquah Institute, a governance think-tank on Monday, the team deliberated on issues of Governance and Security, Economic, Social Services and Media.
Some of the experts include Dr. Kwesi Aning of the Kofi Annan Peace Keeping Training Centre; and Dr. Yaw Graham, Third World Network; Sampson Akligoh of Databank.
The rest are Yaw Osafo Marfo, Dr. Arthur Kennedy and Kweku Kwarteng, all of the opposition New Patriotic Party; Kweku Sekyi-Addo, formerly of the BBC; and Malik Kweku Baako Jnr. Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide.
Prof. Kwame Karikari, Executive Director of Media Foundation for West Africa and Bright Simons of IMANI are also members of the team.
Sammy Darko, Joy News' correspondent monitoring the event, said Dr. Aning, in his address, noted that the Mills administration has not done too well in crime reduction in the last three months.
Dr. Aning cited instances where statements he made on some critical issues have attracted death threats on his life.
He is considering a political asylum if the death threats persist.
Ato Conduah, lamented over what he said has been the absence of clear policy direction in most of the ministries.
This he said has given some of the officials with virtually nothing to do when they go to work. Most of them are only carrying on with uncompleted programmes designed by the previous administration.
Nana Asante Bediatu was not enthused about how President Mills has been dealing with constitutional matters, citing the swearing of oath and dissolving of Boards.
Sampson Akligoh of Databank assessed the challenges the Mills administration is likely to face in the near future which include a possible high inflation rate.
Yaw Osafo Marfo, a former Minister of Finance, said even though the 2009 budget outlined a number of global problems affecting the country, it “failed woefully to prescribe very bold measures to address those problems”.
He urged the government to reduce government expenditure and design measures to increase its revenue collection to grow the economy.
“I think we all need to help Prof. Mills to come out with suggestions of going in the direction where we will have very, very, serious revenue measures…and we should be ready for tightening the belt; for I think the economy must grow.”