{
  "id": 19128552,
  "title": "Bawumia calls for 30-year national masterplans to ensure development continuity",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/bawumia-calls-for-30-year-national-masterplans-to-ensure-development",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-09T09:04:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Adom Online",
    "slug": "adom-online",
    "url": "https://www.adomonline.com/bawumia-calls-for-30-year-national-masterplans-to-ensure-development-continuity/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Former Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has urged Ghana to adopt 30-year national masterplans across key sectors to ensure development continuity. The call comes from his discussions with Japanese counterparts during a visit to Japan. Japan's approach to long-term planning, which involves building consensus and committing to execution over three decades, contrasts with Ghana's experience where changes in government often lead to abandoned development projects, according to Bawumia. He highlighted the need for Ghana to develop national masterplans in critical areas like flood control, coastal protection, and public transport, and for political parties to commit to implementing these plans without interruption. Bawumia argues that such long-term planning would provide a unified development framework for successive governments to follow, rather than constantly altering priorities as new administrations take office.",
  "summary": "Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has called for the adoption of long-term national masterplans in key sectors of Ghana’s development to ensure continuity of projects across successive governments. He believes the approach would help prevent new administrations from abandoning development initiatives started by their predecessors, particularly in critical areas…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}