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Flush Out NDC From Government
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Flush Out NDC From Government
The 2012 Vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia has called on all eligible Ghanaian voters to vote out the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to positively change their lives.
According to him, people vote for governments to come and solve problems inhibiting national development as well as assuage their suffering and not to increase or worsen it.
Therefore, if Ghanaians want to see positive change in their lives as they have been crying of hardship under the present NDC government, then they have to vote out the NDC government for NPP government to come and lessen their suffering, he said.
Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia delivered this campaign message during a town hall meeting which was held at Ghanaian Presbyterian Church in Toronto on July 21, 2012.
The theme for the meeting was “Taking action to restore and transform Ghana.”
According to him, the NDC, under the late President Atta Mills, promised Ghanaians a heaven of ‘Better Ghana’ Agenda which convinced Ghanaians to vote out the NPP.
“However, an economy under the NDC which produces oil, mines gold, produces cocoa and other natural resources in the past three and half years in office has borrowed money up to the tune of $25 billion more than CPP government and ex-president Kufuor’s government put together of nine billion dollars where has all these money gone can we see it.”
“For the past three and half years we have seen corruption that has never been seen before. Woyomization of the economy which is paying people for projects that have not been done, as Woyome money could have built several unit class room blocks.
“Over invoicing one unit classroom block doubled in three and half years, astronomical increase in cost of living, which has made Ghanaians in the country to ask for more remittances from their relatives in Diaspora,” he observed.
Dr Bawumia noted with sadness the rate at which corruption in government had impacted negatively, stressing that people were being paid for no jobs done to buy big stocks and foreign exchanges, which have all contributed to the depreciation of the cedi against foreign currencies such as the U.S dollar.
He said, “Under Nana Akufo Addo there would be no Woyomization but rather systematic improvement in public services from manual to database systems that will link all sectors which needs to be put in place to take out corruption.”
Earlier in a welcome address, the chairman of the Toronto NPP Chapter, Augustine Opoku-Agyeman stated that the purpose of the meeting was not to highlight the differences between NPP and NDC or any political party.
Rather as Ghanaian-Canadians, their primary objective is to see Ghana prosper so that all Ghanaians regardless of their status in society could enjoy their fundamental human freedoms and quality of life.
To achieve this, we need to ensure that leadership is given to men and women who will put the interest of the country ahead of their personal gains.
Accordingly, the Toronto chapter believes that the time has come for Ghanaians in the Diaspora, young and old, Christians and non-Christians to unite to invest in the development of the country.
“We must take actions to restore and transform Ghana. However no individual or group can do it alone. Such transformational change would require the collective efforts of all Ghanaian-Canadians and all Ghanaians elsewhere,” Opoku Agyeman noted.
Source: Stephen A.Quaye,Toronto-Canada
