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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Will Ghanaians vote for NDC and NPP for another 4 years of poverty?


Why do Ghanaians keep punishing themselves by electing corrupt NDC and NPP men and women who think nothing more than their own stomach? Have you seen any independent minded Member of Parliament in either the NDC or NPP speaking for Ghanaians or for Ghana other than themselves and their parties? Has anyone in the NPP or NDC being advocating for economic help for the poor in the country? Have you heard from your MP since he or she was elected in 2008? Has the regional minister in your region being doing anything to help the poor farmers and traders? Has the district chief executive been doing anything to help you and your community get water, waste bins, clean environment, and sanitation facilities in your community?

Don’t you know as a citizen of Ghana you have the right to know what your tax is being used for? Why have you kept silence when you do not have a job? Have you forgotten that Ghana is paying the minister of employment fat salary and bonuses to provide jobs for Ghanaians?

Why have you not taken any action when your community is without electricity? Have you forgotten that the Minister of Energy receives millions of cedis to ensure that you get electricity? Why have you not gone to his office to find out why he continues to receive salaries and bonuses every month yet you do not have electricity? Take action now. Organise the people who live in your community and are suffering like you and go to the minister, his deputy and the directors responsible for providing the service they are denying you, and ask for answers. Don’t take no for answer, demand answers now.

"Ghanaians Must Sit Up"

Sunday, February 7, 2010

NDC and NPP and their politics of inaction (Children)

When they drive in their expensive tax-payers' Land Cruisers do the NPP and NDC MPs, ministers, Vice Presidents, the Presidents and their advisors see the children who live, sell, and are being taught by the street in Accra, Kumasi, Tema, Takoradi, Ho and Koforidua?

Don't they see the many children who sell ice water, coconut, sugar cane, plantain chips? What has the NDC and NPP ministers of Children done to ensure that these children who are the future leaders of the country will be given help so they can remain in the classroom? Majority of these children are on the street hawking instead of being in the classroom because their parents have no jobs and cannot afford to put the kids in the classroom. Yet we have NDC and NPP governments that continue to receive millions of dollars in loans and grants and receive billions of cedis in taxes yet cannot provide for these future leaders.

Look at how the two parties have been playing politics with the school feeding programme that is supposed to ensure that these kids are given some food in school. In many schools children have had to suffer and go without food because the NDC wants its caterers to prepare the food while the old caterers (seen as NPP sympathizers want to continue doing what they have been doing since the programme started).

"Ghanaians must sit up"