CPP outdoors manifesto

Accra, July 22, GNA - The Convention People's Party (CPP) on Tuesday adopted a vision of urgency towards national development as the main thrust of its strategy for winning Election 2008. The strategy focuses on the main thematic areas of the CPP Election 2008 manifesto that prescribes the restoration and pursuance of the original vision of the party's founders through economic, social and political transformation.

The 96-page manifesto launched under the theme: "New Dawn. New Vision", spells out the views and intentions of the CPP, focusing on four broad development areas, namely, social policy, economic policy, responsive governance and international relations.

Informed by the party's ideology of Nkrumaism, whose three main principles are based on self-determination, social justice and pan-Africanism, the document also prescribes three short-term priority areas that the party would address, including public safety, essential social services and job creation.

The CPP, as per the manifesto, intends to create an environment, where all Ghanaians have decent jobs to enable them to improve their lives, have access to modern, decent and affordable accommodation, create access to essential social services such as water, electricity and sanitation irrespective of income, improvements in public and community safety, free basic education up to secondary school, and creating an attractive environment for both domestic and foreign investment to flourish. The manifesto also seeks to combat infant mortality, eradicate malaria, and tackle HIV/AIDS, with everyone having free access to modern standards of healthcare regardless of means. The document holds that science and technology should be the engine of growth and that innovation should be encouraged and rewarded. The CPP also places the issue of continental unity at the centre of its foreign policy.