Come out with alternative development policy for Zongos - ZOMOC tells NDC
A group calling itself the Zongo Movement for Change (ZOMOC) has asked the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to stop discrediting the Zongo Development Fund of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
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Instead, the group said, the NDC should come up with their own alternative development policy for the Zongo communities.
NDC unsettled
A statement issued by the group on Tuesday stated: “The NDC has been hit and unsettled by the massive support Zongo communities throughout the country have accorded the NPP throughout the community tours of Dr Mahamudu Bawumia. Every sincere political party seeking the mandate of its people to govern must not do so with propaganda and empty rhetorics. It must do so sincerely with a bold, achievable policy such as the NPP has done with the ZDF.”
According to ZOMOC, it is embarrassed by the desperate attempts by the NDC to ridicule the progressive Zongo Development Fund (ZDF) — a development policy aimed at bridging the development gap in Zongo communities recently announced by Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on behalf of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the NPP Presidential Candidate for the 2016 general election.
Panic reaction
“We can understand the NDC's panic reaction to this well-laid-out policy by Nana Akufo-Addo because of the NDC's neglect and constant deceit of Zongo communities and the overwhelming acceptance of the NPP's ZDF by Zongo communities since it was announced. As serious as the NPP is, the ZDF policy has become its working document for seeking the mandate of Zongo communities in the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections,” the ZOMOC stated.
It stated that campaigning for elections was a serious business which should not be reduced to child's play, propaganda and deceit. It should be about policies and alternative policies to help the electorate decide.
The ZOMOC has, therefore, urged the NDC to stop the ludicrous theatrics of running down the NPP's ZDF policy without any alternative policy for Zongo communities.
It stated that for a party that had ruled Ghana for the past seven years, and nearly half of Ghana's independence, without any tangible policy to develop Zongo communities, the NDC should have been the first to commend the NPP for such a positive step of having a major policy that focuses on Zongo communities.
