GNP ready to redeem Ghana - Amo Aidoo

Accra, Oct.19 GNA - Mr Kobina Amo Aidoo, Interim Chairman of the newly formed Ghana National Party (GNP) on Thursday declared that the Party was ready to redeem the country from its current stagnation to an agro-giant economy never seen on the Continent of Africa.

He said the present culture of opening shops and officials travelling across the globe to look for investors was not the panacea to the country's problem.

"God in his wisdom gave us large arable lands and mineral resources to use them for national development. The time for true change is now".

Mr Amo Aidoo was briefing the media in Accra about some of the developmental agenda of the GNP after the Party had received its Provisional Certificate of Registration from the Electoral Commission. The GNP which is inclined to the Social Democratic Centrist ideology has 93Redeem Ghana Now=94 as its motto.

The Party's emblem is 'Piled Hands' with white background and stands for 'all hands on deck' approach to tackling the nation's problems.

The GNP also has Sky blue, White and Gold as its colours, with the Sky blue representing the new beginning for Ghanaian youth equipped with initiatives, proper planning, intelligence and determination to turn the fortunes of the nation around.

The white colour stands for the determination to provide Ghanaians a better form of governance in a friendly and peaceful atmosphere while the Gold represents the huge natural resource including arable vegetative lands and sea.

Mr Amo Aidoo, who is an Industrialist and a Researcher, said the Party had the vision and the right men to move Ghana from a developing country to a developed State and the true State of Africa.

He slammed successive governments after Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah for failing to address the fundamental problems of the people with millions of Ghanaians now being worse off.

'There should be no excuse for our under development, when nations less endowed with natural resources have shown that it can be done=94 he said.

Mr Amo Aidoo urged the youth across the country to join the GNP to ensure that the Party wins Election 2008.