Speaking on Channel One TV’s The Point of View with Bernard Avle on Monday, September 15, Dr. Kwapong said citizens often demand solutions from the government while overlooking the role of societal organisation in national progress.

“We think that the government needs to do this, the government needs to do that. For you to get this, society has to be in a certain way. The way I describe it is like a parking lot; if a parking lot is disorganised, if you build a whole house next to a parking lot over about a year, the house will disorganise. So this is a reflection of us and how society is organised,” he explained.

He noted that Ghana’s inability to tackle everyday issues such as street hawking and the proliferation of unregulated billboards reflects a deeper structural weakness.

“We lack the capacity to solve the problem of somebody who’s selling on the sidewalks; we all see it, and we’re not able to do anything about it.

“We see the billboards and we’re not able to do anything about it. Why, because we have not really organised our society in a certain way that brings the best in all of us,” Dr. Kwapong added.