A Fresh Start for Ghana or ....

... More of the Same Failures? - CPP

The message from the Convention People’s Party (CPP) is getting clearer on what the CPP says is a need for Change, and some of its Leaders moved this weekend to hammer home the point about the clear choices to be made in the impending 2008 elections. In separate Radio interviews and at events in London and Birmingham, United Kingdom, the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Branch were at their blistering best - “Our country has faced increased trauma in recent years – some manmade and some natural – a lack of electrical capacity affecting homes and businesses , increased petroleum and utility prices , growing unemployment among School Leavers, rising cost of living, major flooding in Northern Ghana affecting thousands of homes, Cocaine disgrace, rising poverty, to list a few, but whilst the country is united in praying that nature becomes kinder to us, it is less united on a way forward with regard to the manmade catastrophes that has left a majority of our population living in hopelessness” said Mr. Bright Oduro Kwateng – Vice Chairman of the Branch. “What must be increasingly clear is that we cannot continue as we are, the path the country has followed for the last 25 years has failed to deliver Ghana from economic stagnation, failed to deliver us from environmental degradation, failed to deliver us to a better place, failed to move our country forward” the Vice Chairman added.

In a separate interview the Chairman of the Branch Mr. Nii Armah Akomfrah reiterated the same point adding that “In the coming months the decision for our country would be , a fresh new beginning for the country or more of the same old failures” Mr. Akomfrah said our opponents in the NPP or NDC are not offering any new solutions to our problems, they are stuck in a groove with an inability to make the necessary changes needed in our country to benefit the majority of the population, that “the future calls for a bold and radical new agenda which must deliver:

• Employment for our school leavers and growing labour force,

• Worker Security

• An agricultural revolution integrated with industrialization

• A Structure of Ghanaian production which meets the structure of Ghanaian demand for goods and services.

• Exploitation of Ghana’s natural resources to yield maximum economic benefit for Ghanaians and not foreign economies.

• Priority in Education to deliver new hope for today’s youth. • An Advance level of public services “

Mr Akomfrah said “is represented by the Convention People’s Party (CPP) as against the same old failures represented by the NDC and NPP”

Mr. Oduro- Kwarteng in another interview said “the shameless and extravagant flaunting by NPP Presidential Aspirants of questionable wealth whilst the vast majority of our population continues to live in slum dwellings and in total poverty, attest to the true values of the NPP. They continue to deny opportunity and hope to Ghanaians and disrespect the poor.” Both Mr. Oduro-Kwateng and Mr Akomfrah stressed the need for “a government that will protect the interest of ordinary Ghanaians, a government that understands the value and need for a development Bank such as ADB for farmers, that understands the need to protect Ghana’s Tomato farmers and rice growers by not signing the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).” Their main message was that “In the coming months and coming election a fresh new start is the only option that delivers hope for our country.

Forward Ever! Backward Never!

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