OVER the years, Apostle Dr Kwadwo Safo, the Founder and Leader of the Kristo Asafo Mission, has been holding annual exhibitions during which foodstuffs from the mission’s farms and machines and appliances manufactured by the gifted Apostle are put on display for all to see the good works the mission and its founder have been carrying out.
At these exhibitions, dubbed “Charity and Technology Exhibitions”, all the food items on display, as well as huge sums of money, are donated to children’s homes and charity organisations.
This yearly exhibition will take place at Awoshie in Accra tomorrow, Sunday, December 30, 2007 and the innovation this year is the unveiling of a limousine, a five hp split air conditioner and an excavator.
The Daily Graphic would like to commend Apostle Dr Safo and his mission for not only leading the way in their philanthropic activities but also coming up with innovations and technology. We recall recent additions to his growing list of ‘inventions’ such as a four-wheel drive vehicle, a television set that can be switched on and off by human breath, a block-making machine which can make many blocks at the same time, etc.
As far as we know, Apostle Dr Safo has been carrying out the research which brought forth these innovations all by himself at his Gomoa Mpota Technological Research Institute in the Central Region and we think the time is nigh for business people in the private sector to team up with him to commercialise his ‘inventions’ so that the products could be manufactured in bulk to flood the local market.
While commending the Apostle, we would like to appeal to him to come down to the level where his products could be useful to a great majority of our people. In other words, while not demeaning his achievements, we feel that he has raised the stakes so high that the equipment and machinery he has come up with are far above the reach of ordinary people.
It is our firm belief that if Apostle Dr Safo concentrates his efforts on meeting the basic needs of the people, such as food, clothing and shelter, he will come up with simple items which will satisfy the practical and immediate needs of everybody.
For example, the research institute could research into fabricating simple agricultural implements to bail out our peasant farmers from the drudgery of using the traditional means to farm. That way, a lot of food will be produced to feed the people.
Again, research into how to make use of the abundant clay in the country in constructing houses will cut down the over-dependence on imported building materials. That will, in turn, lower the cost of houses and make them accessible to the many homeless and working class people we have in the country.
The limousines, aircraft and cross-country vehicles are likely to place Ghana among the technologically advanced countries, but looking at the country’s limited resources, even the involvement of the state in the endeavour of commercialising their production will not achieve much.
The DAILY GRAPHIC would, therefore, plead with Apostle Safo to consider the exigencies of the Ghanaian situation and manufacture cost-effective vehicles whose mass production can be guaranteed. When he does that, even the transport unions such as the GPRTU of TUC and PROTOA could team up with him to produce them in large quantities.
Once again, we would like to commend Apostle Safo for his pioneering role in charity and innovations and urge companies and businesses which find his ‘inventions’ economically viable to team up with him to develop them for the benefit of Mother Ghana.
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