We all know the government is a DO-NOTHING government.
Our 90% âconstitutionally autocraticâ President is a DO-NOTHING President. You guys know what I mean by â90% constitutionally autocraticâ. Any state where one man elects over 270 DCE, MCE, Mayors and Chief Executives is a defective democracy.
The only reason Ghana is enjoying one of the elements of a democracy, Freedom of Speech, is because Kufuor is slow. He is a DO-NOTHING President ruling over a DO-NOTHING Parliament. You can complain all you want, that is exercise your freedom of Speech, be it bout Hotel Kufuor, or water, or electricity, or roads killing people, but if he does nothing about it, there is nothing parliament does and nothing you can do! Is that a democracy?
So what do you expect?
That is the reason we formed GNP.
If anybody wants to join us and contribute in our efforts for change, let them do it now or forever hold their peace and be content with whatever exits and whatever will remain. I have almost 40 years example to cite and donât think because you were first in your class of 1980 or 1990 you are smarter than the class of 1970, 1960 or 1950. These men are all smart people. THINK why they have not ben able to implement these changes?
I have been hoping for some basic fundamental changes and keep hoping from Government for over 38 years now since I have been overseas and got of age and really concerned and observing!
In 1973 government was singing that we were going to feed ourselves, and we were told that things were getting tough â the cedi was C2.70 and a 15 cubic foot refrigerator cost C810 (around $300) and duties and taxes were free on personal items and max 10% on commercial items. Examine the cedi to day and how much you need to buy the same refrigerator, all imported. The same Fridge is still around $300 or actually sometimes less due to competition and better products, but in Ghana that Fridge is say $400 at the Supermarkets and C3.7 million or Ghc3,700 and the monthly salary of a school teacher.
In 1981 summer Limann was in power and things looked good, as judged by goods on the market â all imported. The economic results of importing almost all items were coming. In 1982-86 it was the worst years of Ghanaâs life, with the famine and night abductions and murders by members of the Rawlings gang. There were also bullying and outright chaos as CDR (Committee for the Defense of the Revolution) and WDC (Workers Defense Committee) seized power and took whatever they could in the rural and urban areas, including officials seizing private property.
In 1989 the World Bank had us in their palms as $4.2 Billion in loans for road construction was granted to us and the only visible sign of that loan to day is the road in front of Kaneshie Market. The Motorway extension from Tetteh Quarshie through Lapaz to McCarthy Hills to Winneba was never completed and to day it takes 4 hours to travel that 10 mile road. World Bank sent their preferred contractors and the members of the Rawlings PNDC got what they wanted out of the deal and no roads. That section of road would not have cost more than say $5 million in America for a 4 lane residential road or say $10 million for a Motorway extension.
If anybody does not get involved, they might as well kiss Ghana goodbye!
My message is very simple!
GET INVOVED IN GNP AND LET US REBUILD, OR HOLD YOUR PEACE TILL YOU RETIRE WHEREVR YOU ARE. I can cite many of my colleagues and friends here in America who are not silent and every year we all dress up in suits and go to funerals. Pray for your Messiah to emerge in our parties, because A DO-NOTHING government will not care if you die or live.
Love the postiveness of Franklin. Indeed we have a real problem as our leaders nad Ministers sadly do not see the bigger picture that we need to liberate everyone so that poverty should be in the past .
Let us work together now or forever hold our peace and let the system continue to benefit a few whiles the rest wallow in misery, in a society where water is being rationed despite massive loans taken for water projects, and those of us who are outside stay till our days end."
I believe the founders of GNP have spoken well about the need for a full energy assessment for the nation and elaborated on strategies to create energy supply and delivery and manager reliable distribution as done in the West, in our Manifesto. The whole concept of load shedding of energy, as well as inability to deliver such basic necessities as water, clean environments with covered sewage, inability to pay competent engineers and other professionals well and keep them on the job, depicts poor planning and vision implementation (if any vision exists), all being a major failure in leadership of the past.
The problem is not technical at all, but deliberate lack of planning and execution that can be described as almost intentional and hence criminally actionable national sabotage. Please remember that VRA engineers also have created a nationwide Fiber optic network that is simply waiting for deployment around the country for high speed communication backbone, and the current and previous governments did not understand the science and business benefits yet.
GNP has reached a point where a few hands contributed to creating the Party to the point of receiving a certificate.
Do the estimated 3 million Ghanaians overseas expect us to save Ghana alone for them to return to?
We need others to join in and sponsor their districts or regional offices and invest in the destiny of their country. The founders of the party are working adults like most of us overseas. We have no deep pocket financiers. We have sacrificed and keep sacrificing but we cannot do it alone. It is only fair that if we are to uproot the demons of the past we all contribute.
I challenge others like yourself to join us and invest in the destiny of Ghana. The country belongs to all of us and once we have a core group willing to take the country back from the hands of selfish and greedy politicians, the message to the masses to change them will not be too difficult to deliver on the platform we have already created.
Let us work together now or forever hold our peace and let the system continue to benefit a few whiles the rest wallow in misery, in a society where water is being rationed despite massive loans taken for water projects, and those of us who are outside stay till our days end.
We look forward to you and others joining us with your contributions to move Ghana forward.
Edwin I hope you dont mind my sharing this with others.
GNP I have been visiting your website quite often and I wonder if this party can
be different from this current groupings we have.It is just supprising to see people talk about performance using some kind of substandard assesment that has no basis.
I was reading an article about load shedding in Ghana and this article is telling Ghanaians that the load shedding is over.
We are leaving in a country where mediocrity,incompetence and ethnicity is the order of the day, it is mandaory that the utilities company provide services very efficiently at the least cost that is the world best practicies of today.
If VRA is making this anouncement now it is like they have deviated from their mandatory purpose of existence and they don't have mission a statement.The utilities companies have lost focus and they are managed by incompetent people who are not innovative and do not understand the balance between engineering and service provision.
The dynamics of the best practicies in todays technology thus not have place for party faithfullsappointed managers,we needmanagers who are maintenance driven and can comprehend waste reduction and efficient running of these systems to that is what we call competency.
Creating a regulatory body will not solve the problem of excessive leakages and running of the systems at half the full capacities.
You will not be cost effective in this circumstance because the people running this systems are glued to the past way of doing things.We need a changed mind set in the way we do things and our utility providers must see themselves as employees whose future depends on how efficient they are in doing their jobs not rewarding mediocrity.
I know there is a competent engineer in your party whose has written a couple of articles on some critical issues and I am challenging him to comment on the performance our utilities providers especially VRA because one day your party will be incharge i hope it is pretty soon.
On Valco I am supprised a company which has virtually closed down is struggling with an independent power provider just because their so called Bosses are sitting in redundant environment and are taking fat salaries for no work done.Can you imagine this happening in Ghana. They are driving luxirious cars around with big ego and they are preventing the installation of a power plant because of a dead feasiblity studies they did a long time ago.How on earth should a nation behave like this?God saveGhana.
I expect a feedback on this issue on your website.
On your party's endevour to look different and do things differently which I am sure you can it is mandatory that this will be an alternative party to this current parties who have made life miserable for Ghanaians.
