NPP To Boycott Sitting On 45 New Constituencies

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Created on Friday, 31 August 2012 00:00

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NPP To Boycott Sitting On 45 New Constituencies

The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) says it is considering boycotting Parliamentary proceedings concerning the creation of the 45 new constituencies.

The House returns from a brief recess on 3rd September towards ensuring the 21 days need for the Constitutional Instrument covering the new constituencies to mature is fulfilled.

But Party Chairman Jake Obetsebi Lamptey in an interview with XYZ News said the party may impress on its MPs to boycott the sitting so that they can focus on participating in the public scrutiny of the biometric voter’s register which will be opened to the public for 10 days starting Saturday September 1.

Mr. Obetsebi-Lamptey said “the exhibition is supposed to start tomorrow; we want them to be there during the course of the exhibition so that nobody comes afterwards to challenge and take the matter to court.

“The exhibition is ten days after the ten days then all the challenges that arose will be addressed at the district level and the MPs will have to be there.

“So if an MP is in Paga, you want the MP to be in Paga and Accra as well it is not possible…so [boycotting] is something that we must consider”.

Source: radioxyzonline.com

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Lecturer: NPP manifesto promising but..

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Created on Monday, 27 August 2012 00:00

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Lecturer: NPP manifesto promising but..

{sidebar id=10 align=right}The yet to be outdoored New Patriotic Party manifesto can take Ghana to the promised land if only there is commitment and the political will to execute it, says a University of Ghana lecturer, Ransford Gyampo.

He was reacting to the highlights of the NPP manifesto which was made public last week.

The party last Saturday adopted the contents of the manifesto which is titled “Transforming our lives; transforming Ghana,” at a Delegates Conference in Accra.

The manifesto, which will be officially launched Wednesday, amongst other things, promises to turn Ghana into an industrialized country.

A member of the Manifesto Drafting Committee, Mr. Yoofi Grant told Joy News the “buy and sell economy,” Ghana has practised for years will give way to a “do and sell economy”.

He said there will be value addition to raw materials produced in Ghana which will subsequently be exported.

On health, he said an Akufo-Addo government will be building three additional first class state-of-the-art hospitals to cater for the health needs of Ghanaians and to ease the pressure on the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital as well as the Komfo-Anokye Teaching Hospital.

Mr. Grant also outlined a number of infrastructural projects the party will execute if the NPP is given the mandate in December.

Whilst conceding that the content of the manifesto is promising, Ransford Gyampo insisted it will take more than just the good policy prescriptions on paper to develop Ghana.

He said many of the previous manifestos of all the political parties equally had good policy initiatives but the total lack of political will to execute them had seen Ghana stagnating in its development.

From:Nathan Gadugah/Myjoyonline.com

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Asemfofro Attacks NDC For Condemning Akufo Addo's Plans

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Created on Monday, 27 August 2012 00:00

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Asemfofro Attacks NDC For Condemning Akufo Addo's Plans

{sidebar id=10 align=right}Popular National Democratic Congress (NDC) serial caller, Osei Yaw Nketia aka Dr. Asemfofro, has launched a scathing attack on his party for condemning Nana Akufo-Addo’s plans to make Senior High School (SHS) education free when voted into power.

According to Asemfofro, Nana Addo’s vision to make SHS education free was a step in the right direction and must not be condemned by anybody or political party in the country.

Many NDC gurus have condemned Nana Addo’ free SHS policy, saying the problem with Ghana’s education system is not affordability but accessibility.

Nana Akufo-Addo, the NPP presidential candidate, says he will make SHS education free if he becomes the next president of Ghana.

In an interview with Daily Guide, Asemfofro asked members of the NDC to bow their heads in shame for condemning the free SHS policy, adding that “any political party that does not support free SHS education must not be given the chance to rule the country.

He said policy would enable children, whose parents are poor, to access education and prepare for leadership positions in future.

Explaining further, the NDC serial caller said he would have held a position in government if his parents had sent him to secondary school.

“Anybody who says free SHS in not good should be seen as an enemy of the state, if such a person could be banished I would support the move.”

Dr. Asemfofro, a staunch NDC supporter, said Nana Addo’s ability to put out specific figures to finance the programme during his Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) encounter showed that he could actually implement the policy.

He said the NDC heavily criticized former President Kufuor for promising to make NHIS free in 2000.

“President Kufuor was able to do it when he came to power, what shows that Nana Addo cannot implement the free SHS education promise if voted into power.”

The NDC might not like Nana Addo but his policies and visions are good and must not be condemned by anybody.

He said he asked former President Mills during a telephone conversation to steal Addo’s free SHS education idea and implement it.

He said the late Prof. Mills told him that he had already considered the policy and informed his cabinet ministers about it.

“Because I did not go to school former President Mills told me he could not help me and I understood him perfectly.”

“If the free education was available in my time, I would have had the opportunity to go to school and by now I would have been in a better position and be serving in the NDC government,” he said.

Dr. Asemfofro urged politicians to stop condemning the good policies of other politicians.

Source: Cephas Larbi/Daily Guide

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Why I am Seeking Political Power - Nana Akufo Addo

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Why I am Seeking Political Power - Nana Akufo Addo

{sidebar id=10 align=right}Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo, New Patriotic Party (NPP)’s Presidential Candidate for the 2012 Elections at the weekend promised to serve and not to lord over Ghanaians if elected as the Head of State.

Speaking at the National Annual Delegates Conference in Accra, he said that the NPP was seeking political power “not to punish political opponents” but to correct bad policies that had been rolled out by the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the past three and half years.

Nana Addo pledged that his administration would implement strategies and policies that would create hundreds of jobs and industrialise the new economy to replace the “old raw-material based economy.”

He promised to support farmers and fishermen to ensure food security and to roll out meaningful housing policies that would provide decent and affordable accommodation for the ordinary Ghanaian.

Nana Addo called on the party to stay united to wrest political power from the NDC saying “God did not put us on this rich land to be poor. It is bad leadership that makes us (Ghanaians) poor.”

He called on Ghanaians to join forces to help change the current political administration to move the country forward saying “we can do it.”

Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, NPP’s Vice Presidential candidate, pledged that the party would vigorously pursue the effective mapping and street naming as well as national identification activities which were initiated during the former President John Agyekum Kufuor’s administration.

He said a NPP administration would stabilise the cedi, reduce the high costs of doing business, pursue policies and roll out prudent financial management that would ensure real fiscal discipline.

Mr Jake Obetsebi- Lamptey, National Chairman of the NPP, said the party’s unity was critical for victory in the December polls.

He called on individuals within the party not to pursue personal agendas and urged them to consider the more important national interest.

Mr Obetsebi-Lamptey said though the NDC was disjointed and was “worst form of government”, it remained a formidable electioneering machine to be reckoned with.

“No one should relax...continue with the same spirit of unity...and sprint for victory...Put all hands on deck,” he urged the elated delegates.

Source: GNA

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