Two-party rotation: Open letter from youth to NDC, NPP
The Young Thinkers Network for Development speak for the youth who are tired of watching politics become a relay race where the baton never moves Ghana forward.
For over 30 years, nearly three and a half decades now, the NDC and NPP have taken turns governing, having had the chance to prove that power can be used for the people.
However, both have failed to break a cycle that hurts us most: unemployment and undignified situations in all aspects of life.
Job opportunities and dignity are traded for party loyalty.
The results are: i. the Opposition-Power Paradox, where the parties in opposition hold press conferences about youth unemployment and broken promises.
They release policy papers on transparency and accountability.
The speeches sound good, the energy is loud, and the promises are specific.
Then the elections end.
The speeches stop and the youth desks go quiet.
We’ve seen it happen twice, and we’re watching it happen again.
Power changes, but the attitude toward ordinary Ghanaians stays the same.
Every time the government changes hands, projects start, stop or get renamed.
A clinic built with taxpayer money becomes a party’s legacy project.
Meanwhile, young people are still waiting for the classroom blocks started years ago.
Development should not depend on who wins the next election.
If it does, then we are not building a nation.
We are building party monuments.
We’ve watched both the NDC and NPP weaken the same institutions they once defended when they were outside power.
The police, EOCO, the Auditor-General’s office, and the Electoral Commission should serve Ghana, not a party flag.
When investigations only move against opponents, trust dies—and when trust dies, young people check out of politics entirely.
Questioning bad governance is not anti-Ghana. It is pro-Ghana. Both parties are quick to say “we are the voice of the people” when it suits them.
But when young people ask hard questions, we are told we are being unpatriotic.
Ghana belongs to all of us.
Graduates without connections can’t get jobs; contractors wait years for payment; unless they know someone inside and policy changes every four years kill investment.
Ghana has the talent and resources, but lacks continuity and leadership that puts the country above party.
We, therefore, demand the depoliticisation of development.
Set up a bipartisan board to protect key projects across governments and the protection of independent institutions, while oversight bodies must be given fixed terms and real power to act without fear.
We need the publication of quarterly progress reports on road, school and hospital projects, and for politicians across the divide to hold quarterly youth townhall meetings in every region, not just rallies in Accra.
To the NDC and NPP: You are not enemies of Ghana, but you are acting like enemies of continuity.
Ghana’s future is Ghanaian. And we, the youth, are done waiting for you to remember that.
Kenneth Awuku Adu,
President/Founder,
Young Thinkers Network for Development (YTND).
