CPP in Media Blitz

The CPP stepped up its media campaign to get its message to Ghanaians, especially the youth when its Media and Communications Team went into overdrive on the London air-waves over a number of days, carefully articulating the party's positive and practical positions on current national issues.

On Wednesday June 11 a combined team of Danaa Nantogmah and Kyei Anim-Sampong were on Hotdigitalradio’s Political Talk show hosted by Maureen Donkor. Danaa called for “ transparency in the contracts and deals that the NPP government has signed with the oil companies involved in drilling Ghana's oil “, adding that this would be one way of reducing corruption to the minimum in this sector”. He went on to say that due to the length of such contracts – 20 to 40 years in some cases, it would be almost impossible for any new government to change them, and thus, the NPP Government has a national responsibility to let the public know the type of contract signed. Responding to a question on how the CPP intends to finance its programs, Kyei Anim-Sampong noted that the CPP has identified waste, inefficient use of inadequate resources and tax-evasion as the bane of our economy. He observed that Ghana has for the past 50 years “taxed the few for the many”, adding that the few are Nurses, Doctors, Civil Servants, Teachers and a limited number of private companies, with many thousands of people and companies operating without taxation. He added that the CPP will use available technology to create a data-base on all existing company in the country to ensure proper and fair taxation. He also drew attention to the millions of dollars that flows out of the country yearly by Ghana-based multinational companies. “The irony is that while these tax loop-holes permit these companies to evade tax we go to their national capitals with a begging bowl asking for money with high interests rates for our development. By closing these loop-holes and implementation of efficient taxation national dependency on donor countries will be drastically reduced”, Kyei said.

Kyei Anim-Sampong returned to the studios of Hotdigitalradio.com on Sunday 15th June. Commenting on the President’s recent comments on Ghana’s Police Service, he said “it was incongruous for President Kufuor to "express misgivings about the image of the police service" .and wondered where the President has been all these years.” Indeed President Kufuor has been involved at the heart of Ghana’s politics for 40 years or more culminating in the nearly 8 year term at the Presidency and thus it beggars belief for such a blindingly obvious statement of fact to come from our President at this time in his term. Of office. Every school child in Ghana knows the police have an image problem. One doesn't have to be a Social Scientist or a President to work that out. The President's job and responsibility is not to tell us what we know but to find solutions to the problems we have .President Kufuor cannot wish these problems away merely by expressing misgivings", Kyei said. He added that the President’s statement is the clearest Ghanaians can get to an admission of failure, incompetence, intellectual bankruptcy and a woefully inadequate NPP government whose sole purpose is to perpetrate a feudal system based on greed, corruption and the wanton disregard for human decency.

The CPP’s Danaa Nantogmah was in the Voice of Africa Radio studios on that same Sunday to discuss many issues including the Political situation in Zimbabwe, and bloated Voters Register and the Electoral Commission. Danaa’s comment on the situation was that all parties involved in the Zimbabwean political crisis should ensure that actions and inactions take into account the supreme interest of the people of Zimbabwe. On the Electoral Commission and the bloated register, Danaa commended the NDC and GCPP for alerting the Ghanaians about the discrepancies in the data they received from the EC, and pointed out that all political parties as well as citizens of the country have a responsibility not to undermine the credibility of the EC. He accused the NDC of having a hidden agenda arguing that “either the NDC were themselves rigging elections when in office with the help of the EC and thus worried that the NPP will also do the same with the help of the EC, if not then what has changed at the EC for anyone to think that the EC who were angels ten years ago under the NDC has suddenly become corrupted.

Over the last week the CPP team have also been on Ben TV’s Political Hardtalk, and granted interviews to the Africana Platform and Radio Focus.

The message has been consistent – in a battle of Change Vs Continuity, the CPP represents change.

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