Let’s promote inter/intra Africa trade — CPP, PPP

The Convention People’s Party (CPP) and the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) have urged African leaders to promote inter/intra Africa trade and research in science and technology on the continent.

In separate statements to commemorate Africa Union (AU) day yesterday, the two parties urged African leaders to also evaluate their governance systems for the attainment of Agenda 2063.

CPP

In its statement signed by the Chairman of the International Relations Committee of the CPP, Mr Kofi Henaku Akuffo, the CPP stressed the need for Africans to fight against attempts by Western pharmaceuticals to use Africans as guinea pigs for their research into vaccines.

It said the idea of liberation was now more than ever important in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic and could not be over emphasised.

“We need to produce and manufacture for our needs. We need vaccines, food, personal protective equipment, ventilators and we should be able to produce them,” it stated.

“We are still under economic, social and racial servitude and we ought to gird our loins and fight for total liberation,” it stated.

PPP

In its message, the PPP reminded the youth to monitor and evaluate the common and agreed policies and actions on Agenda 2063 to ensure it is attained as scheduled for their own benefit.

“It is instructive for the youth of Africa to note that, by operation of natural law, current leadership of the AU as well as heads of state and government of member countries, would not be around to render any accounts for their stewardship in 2063,” it said in a statement signed by its first Vice-Chairman, Mr William Dowokpor.

It encouraged the youth to take keen interest in the visions and strategies as well as programmes that had been lined-up for the attainment of the agenda.

African leaders

The statement urged African leaders to reflect and evaluate the governance systems they were operating to ensure they supported the attainment of Agenda 2063.

“On this Africa Liberation Day, we also call on all African heads of state and government to take actions to remove those barriers for African goods and services and also stop the neo-colonialists moves to take over the continent through land grabbing and ownership of the factors of production in the name of Foreign Direct Investment, which we welcome but insist, must not disadvantage Africa in anyway,” it stated.