CPP to promote industrial growth — Ivor Greenstreet

The Convention People’s Party (CPP) will promote industrial growth when it comes to power, the flag bearer of the party for the 2020 general election, Mr Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, has stated.

Considering the speed at which technology was transforming lives, he said a CPP government would invest in the technology sector to speed up Ghana's developmental growth.

"We are on the precipice of technological upheavals that continue to transform the way we live, work, and interact. The transformation will be extraordinary as the new age dawns at an ever faster pace changing systems of production, management, and governance", he stated.

Memorial Day

At a programme held at Kpando in the Volta Region to celebrate Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day last Sunday, Mr Greenstreet said Nkrumah's CPP was the only party that could deliver affordable housing built and designed by Ghanaians with locally manufactured materials.

"The government must provide affordable housing built and designed by Ghanaian architects using local materials, and not for companies to make profits. The profit the CPP is interested in is social profit", he added.

The programme was attended by the CPP National Vice Chairman, Mr Emmanuel Ogbordzor; Historian Mald Adzossi, aspiring Member of Parliament for Kpando, Mr Isaac Adjanya, and executive members from some constituencies in the region which included Hohoe, Kpando, North and South Dayi, Ho Central, Adaklu, Akatsi North, Keta, Central Tongu, Anlo, Agotime-Ziope, Ketu South and North and South Tongu.

Mr Greenstreet noted that the CPP had the capacity to deliver the skills, education and affordable housing to take Ghana into the Fourth Industrial age, so “there is the need for concerted efforts to rescue Ghana from the grasp of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP).”

Red cockerel

Eulogising Ghana’s first President, he said Dr Nkrumah always stood above all persons in the movement for independence.

He noted that Ghana's first president made it possible for the country to become a united political entity. Though he was the son of a goldsmith and a petty trader, he worked very hard to educate himself and change his life's story.

"We celebrate the birthday of the one who came from a lowly and humble origin but brought to life the vision of Africa and freedom from colonialism and imperial rule and was bold enough to translate that vision into a mission that could be actualised and implemented", Mr Greenstreet said.

Win

The General Secretary of the CPP, Nana Yaa Gyantuah, urged party executive members to rally behind the flag bearer and support the party by bringing non-CPP members on board to vote for the party.

"A vote for the CPP is a vote for yourself, a vote for good education, accommodation and improvement of yourself. We all have to work hard by visiting every home and entering every polling station to bring Ghanaians to vote for CPP,” she said.

Highlighting the need to celebrate Kwame Nkrumah, she said some group of people were trying and doing everything possible to distort Ghana's history by not recognising Kwame Nkrumah as the founder of the nation, adding: "Anybody who says the Osagyefo is not the founder of this country is a liar and wants to distort history".

Speaking on the sidelines with the Daily Graphic, the Volta Regional Chairman of the CPP, Mr Thomas Ntumy, expressed concern about the abandoned factories built by the founder of the party, reiterating the CPP’s decision to industrialise the country and revive abandoned projects initiated by Kwame Nkrumah.

He accused the ruling government of deceiving Ghanaians with the promise to build one district one factory only to canvass for votes to win the 2016 elections.

He, therefore, called on Ghanaians to give the CPP the opportunity in the upcoming election to resurrect the abandoned factories and also save them from rot. -

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