Arriving the premises of the agency to a rousing welcome by various labour unions in the institute to assume duties yesterday, Ogbobe lamented that the research agency has lost its core mandate, following years of crises and infighting, insisting that everyone had done things their own way.
“Anytime you go to Abuja, you will see Ghana must go bags containing petitions from PRODA. We spend so much time and resources writing petitions and leaving the reason we are here. Let us convert petition writing to research writing skills. Let us think of being our brothers’ keeper. Some of us are fighting wars and not knowing why. I cannot be a leader without followers. Let us make this place our home, and if we are truly a research institute, let us work towards that and reorder our skills. Most of the petitions are internal and the more we write, the more we kill productivity.
Allow me to be your Director General, support me and convince me on why I should function in that capacity. PRODA had been in the news for the wrong reasons and that is what I have been sent here to correct,” he said.
