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Seasoned Journalist, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. has registered his intense displeasure with the governance system of the Akufo-Addo administration.

Mr. Pratt, speaking on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo' programme Tuesday morning, bewailed the way and manner that Ghana is degenerating due to the inability of the President and his officials to identify the real problems of the country.

According to him, the politics of the country's Gross Domestic Product with regard to whether it is increasing or decreasing isn't the fundamental problem but rather the poor management of the nation's resources and revenues.

To him, the leaders have missed the plot, asking how does the politics of GDP ''resolve the concrete problem of our inability to benefit from the mining, from the extractive sector of the economy?''

Citing the gold sector where he noted the country has as less as 3 percent of shares, Mr. Pratt was of a firm belief that until the leaders focus on solving the real problems, the populace will continue to cry.

He also condemned suggestions by some critics that the country should return to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help resolve Ghana's economic problems.

"From the time of Adam and Eve, what country in this world has gone to IMF and had its monetary affairs going well? There is none. So, what's the sense in going to the IMF?'' he snapped.

Mr. Pratt strongly opined that there are great intelligent men and women in Ghana who have requisite knowledge in economics and can help diagnose the country and proffer the right solutions to end the sufferings of Ghanaians whose expertise, he asked the government, to utilize.

''Why can't we rely on our own departments of economics in the various Universities, our think tanks [authentic Ghanaian think tanks]? Why don't we let them meet and give us insight?...Why can't we build national consensus on the state of the economy? How come we find homegrown solutions to the economy?'', he further asked.

Looking at the way forward to Ghana's development,  he stressed ''we have to change. We have to change the fundamentals of the economy. We have to restructure our economy".

He added; "We have to build a self-reliant national economy within the context of a continental union government. That is the way forward. There is no other way. If what Guggisberg and co did is how we are also doing it, then we are going nowhere. We will remain here and keep crying everyday."