CPP assures workers of developing productive sector
The Convention People’s Party (CPP) says it is irrevocably and unalterably committed to the Nkrumaist development philosophy of decolonisation.
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The party argues that unlike the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and New Patriotic Party (NPP) who prosecute neocolonialist development policies that impoverish the country, the CPP will continue to rely on Nkrumaist development philosophy of decolonisation to develop Ghana.
In a statement signed by Director of Communication of the CPP, Nii Armah Akomfrah, to wish workers in Ghana and throughout the world happy felicitations, the CPP assured Ghanaian workers that given the chance to govern, it would develop the productive resources to satisfy domestic demand and export.
Additionally, it would diversify the agricultural export commodity sector as well as modernise food and raw material agriculture for food security and industrialisation.
“The development of inter-regional and continental trade and investment in the social sectors of health, education and housing,” will also be a priority under a CPP government.
According to the CPP, this was the surest path to employment and wealth creation, economic independence and social protection and not “the bogus and fraudulent externally dictated Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS) that is implemented by the NPP and NDC governments.”
Acknowledging the contribution of workers to social change, the growth of the global economy, liberation of the African continent and the reduction in the extent and depth of the exploitation of workers, the CPP recalled the heroic and patriotic struggle of the Trades Union Congress of Ghana that lit the flame for colonial freedom and the African revolution against colonialism and imperialism.
“We salute today the courage and fortitude of the leaders and workers of Ghana in our independence struggle. We salute and bow to some of your notable leaders in the liberation struggle of our country. We pay respect to their struggles and sacrifices, the patriotic search for freedom and prosperity in an independent Ghana founded on the principles of self- determination, social justice and the quest for African unity,” it stated.
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In the view of the CPP, the Nkrumaist development policy choices are founded on the recognition that the rights of workers are not limited to political rights of freedom of association and speech but also the delivery of their social rights to education, health, housing and freedom from hunger, and above all the right and duty to work.
The CPP also rejected the tight monetary policy of the NPP and NDC governments that had led to the “no money in the system” discontent, reduction in public demand and consumption, the thinning of the middle class, a lopsided growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that is indicative of the ever widening gulf between the rich and the poor and cumulatively, the reduction in the living standard of our people.
It stated: “We know that though our development challenges are economic, the solution is political. We must in this view overcome the propaganda and psychological warfare that emphasise our weakness and deny our strengths.”
“We call on labour on this May Day to rise up and unite under the banner of the development goals of the Convention People’s Party to a prosperous country,” it concluded.