CPP solidarity message represents voice of suffering Ghanaians — Samia Nkrumah

The Chairperson and leader of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Ms Yaba Samia Nkrumah, has said the party’s solidarity message at the just-ended delegates congress of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) represents the voice of the ordinary suffering Ghanaian.

She has, therefore, called on members of  the ruling party to stop vilifying the General Secretary of  the CPP,  Mr Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, who read the statement on behalf of the party.

It will be recalled that Mr Greenstreet last Saturday, at the NDC congress grounds, said the much-touted Better Ghana Agenda of the NDC government was yet to be experienced by Ghanaians.

“Apparently nobody, I mean nobody, is seeing your Better Ghana Agenda; continuous ‘’dumsor, dumsor;’’  corruption from top to bottom, left right inside-out and all the challenges you are facing are suffocating the Ghanaian people,” he said.

Assessment

His comments, however, infuriated some NDC members who described his assessment of the government as ill-informed.

In his address to the delegates, President John Dramani Mahama had to restrain himself from responding directly to Mr Greenstreet’s attack.

He nevertheless said the CPP General Secretary deliberately failed to see the development his administration had brought to the country, adding that Mr Greenstreet was suffering from “selective myopia”. 

However, in her defence, Ms Samia Nkrumah insisted that the CPP position articulated by the General Secretary was not a new pronouncement, only that the ruling NDC had made up their minds to not listen to any constructive criticism.

Hardship

She maintained that Ghanaians were undergoing hardship quietly as a result of the mismanagement of the economy by the ruling NDC government.

She also noted that  the CPP party over the days , weeks  and months had been hammering on the energy crisis, corruption and the general malaise of the economy, but the NDC government had not heeded the call of the party and ordinary Ghanaians  to fight corruption and bring the economy back on track.

Ms Samia Nkrumah said apart  from  the CPP speaking against the pervasive corruption that had impacted negatively on the performance of  the economy, the party had also spoken against the Economic Partnership Agreement(EPA) with the European Union, which the government was pursuing.

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She said the party had warned  the  government that the EPA would kill  manufacturing and other industries as Ghana would be  turned into a dumping ground for  manufactured goods from Europe.

She said CPP  was  a pro- people’s party and would always speak for every single Ghanaian whenever the opportunity presented itself such as the public platform provided at the just-ended NDC congress.

She said a party that was pro-people would work to increase production and create jobs instead of cutting back on budgets for education, health and other sectors, which directly affects  the poor and vulnerable in the society.