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Ghana: Nduom Dares Mills
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Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra)
25 March 2008
Posted to the web 25 March 2008
David Alan Painstil & Magdalene Sey
Cape Coast
The Presidential candidate of the Convention People's Party(CPP), Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom has thrown a challenge to the National Democratic Congress(NDC) Presidential candidate, Prof John Evans Atta Mills to tell Ghanaians and the Central Region in particular about his achievements after serving the nation as vice President.
Addressing CPP polling station chairmen in Cape Coast, on Monday, Dr Nduom dared Mills to tell Ghanaians the kind of change he was able to bring to the nation when he became vice President from 1996 to 2000.
He indicated that Prof Mills had failed the people of the Central Region as he was not able to bring any change to the region when he was the vice President.
"Ask Professor Mills what he did for the Central Region and Ghana when he was a vice President," Dr Nduom asked the people to inquire from Prof. Mills.
Dr Nduom also took a swipe at the ruling New Patriotic Party(NPP) Presidential candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo and Dr. Edward Mahama of the People's National Convention (PNC), saying Akufo-Addo should tell Ghanaians his achievements as a lawyer and former Attorney General and Foreign Minister.
The CPP Presidential candidate also appealed to Ghanaians to ask Dr. Mahama about his achievements as a medical doctor. "Has Mahama been able to put up a single clinic in Central Region to deserve your votes?" He asked the people.
Dr. Nduom claimed that amongst the four Presidential candidates, he was the one who possessed the magic wand to meet the needs of Ghanaians, taking into consideration his achievements as a former Minister of Economic Planning, Energy and Public Sector Reform under the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Nduom mentioned some of his achievements as being the brain behind the National Identification System, the endorsement of the formation of Premix Fuel Committee and the retention of Osagyefo Power Barge at Effasu in the Western Region when some NPP government officials tried to relocate the power generating plant to Tema.
Dr. Nduom beat his chest and said amongst the Presidential hopefuls, he was the only person who has been able to create jobs for 500 people. He mentioned Coconut Groove Hotels dotted across the country, Radio Station and National Savings and Loan Scheme in Elmina, Accra, Tema and other towns.
Dr. Nduom contended that he represented the hope and aspiration of Ghana because as an economist he would use his expertise to revive the collapsed industries established by Dr Kwame Nkrumah so as to create employment opportunity for the teaming youth in the country that were yearning for jobs.
Nduom said he would not disappoint Ghanaians like the NPP, which made vain promises to them that it would create jobs within one hundred days in office.
He maintained that the NPP lured Ghanaians to vote for them when they asked them to check their standard of living during 2000 elections and that after seven years, the economic situation had moved from bad to worse.
He therefore urged Ghanaians to use the same measurement to vote NPP out of power in the December 7 elections. "CPP will put money in your pockets and make you feel good so that our Work and Happiness will not be in vain," he told the people amidst cheers.
He promised to hand over the management of Premix Fuel to fishermen and prevent activities of fishing Trawlers owned by Koreans and Chinese that was destroying fishing activities along the coast of Ghana.
"We have premix committee which consist of brothers, fathers, relatives and party people, and the one in Elmina is a clear example of such corrupt practice that is affecting premix supply in the country," he said.
Dr. Nduom noted that CPP was strong and that those who tried to suppress the party after the overthrow of Dr Nkrumah, would live to see the party ruling Ghana again in 2009.
He said CPP was not voted out of power by Ghanaians but it was toppled by a coup in 1966 and after that event, pictures of Nkrumah as well as emblems of the party were totally banned from body politics in Ghana, which rubbed the party from the memories of Ghanaians.
The Cape Coast Constituency Chairman of the party, Mr. Harry Mensah questioned the significance of the NPP's new poverty alleviation policy known as the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty(LEAP), indicating that how could a government which was supposed to provide jobs for the people to earn income choose to give paltry sums of money to the poor.
Alhaji Bako, a leading member of the party in the region, stressed on the need for party members to remain united in order to ensure total victory in the December polls.
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He disclosed that a Soyaya Club, aiming at mobilizing Zongo support for the CPP would soon be inaugurated.
Paa Kwesi,
You call yourself an economist but you don't understand that the goverment's role in a democratic dispensation and capitlistic economy is not to create jobs but to promote the job creation activities of the private sector. Its a world of difference from promotion and job creation.
If you are talking about the organic view rather mechanistic view of government then that government is supreme. Individual goals are subject to whims of the government. The activity of the individual is desireable if it only serve purpose of the government. Thus, the nation creates jobs and other things that... [Read Full Text]
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