Majority Leader Strips NDC Naked

Whoever thinks that the confusion between the current majority leader in parliament and the president of the republic is over must once again put up their thinking cup and revise their notes.It has now come out very clearly that the majority leader’s incessant attacks on his own government is not over and will not be over anytime soon.This came out clearly when the majority leader met some youth in the Upper West Regional capital Wa to interact and share ideas with them. An interaction that was supposed to be a learning process, turned out to the platform provided to expose some the ‘mistakes and inefficiencies of the NDC as a party in government.

The current majority leader of parliament, Honorable Alban Bagbin has squarely blamed the president for the failure of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority(SADA),describing the composition of the authority as bias and bound to fail since the composition of the membership of the board and working staff was skewed towards the selection of only people from Northern extraction. He said if indeed SADA were to succeed, the president should have thought it wise to have allowed the membership of the board and mainstream staff should have taken a national character and intimated that what is happening in SADA is nothing short of incompetence as a result of poor decision from those who matter. He said for SADA to be effective and be truly functional there is the need to run it like a national organization.

The majority leader was speaking to youth drawn all over the region in what they call Youth Parliament. He said the NDC which is his party suffers from what he termed as poor leadership and gross incompetence and wondered whether the bad situation in the country will be over soon. Without mincing words, he said the country at the moment is suffering from leadership crisis and said until something pragmatic is done Ghanaians should not think that it a better situation soon come.

He also said sponsoring a candidate for a political position as either a parliamentarian or a president is not associated with any element of corruption since it is a duty call for all to come out and support anybody who wants to take up a public office. The majority leader who has been the member of parliament for the Nadowli area since 1992 and has been described variously as the “Mugabe of Nadowli constituency, said politics is a game which needs investment and that investment must come from the people

.He took his time to explain the disparity between the north and the rest of the country. He said the north is suffering because the formal education came there too late when it had already started in the southern part of the country for over hundred years plus. He said most of the chiefs in southern are complete illiterates but the timely intervention of education and the ability to push for development is the cause of their seeming success.

Honorable Bagbin said the over reliance on natural resources such as gold timber and cocoa is long overdue since the over reliance on them has not brought about the needed results. He said the educational system should be opened up as that may be more useful than the use of natural resources since any depression around the world affects directly the prices of these resources which brings hardship to the people of the country

He said parents must be prepared to work and provide the educational needs of their children since the political leadership owes no parent any responsibility to look after their children for them. He was quick in adding that any time such comments are made some ignorant people will be up in arms against the maker of such comment since it is a painful fact which must be accepted by all. Honorable Bagbin said there is the need “to prompt people to come out of their shells and say it as it is. That is why wherever I go I say it as it is”. He said he speaks truth to power and there is the need to tell the power the truth. He said in Ghana there is the absolute need for truth telling as a culture but at the moment in the country truth telling is seen as a bad thing, saying that the situation has been turned into what he described as the Hitler days where the truth is not been told which led to the unfortunate situation of the massacre of millions. He urged the youth to come out from their shells and let the people in the country to know the truth and called for equality and respect for each other in the country. At the end of the forum several questions were asked and answers were provided by the majority leader of parliament..