Upper East NPP to go on demo
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) branch in the Upper East Region will on March 26, 2015 stage a demonstration in the region.
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This is to protest against what they describe as "poor leadership and disregard for development issues affecting the north exhibited by the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC)".
According to the NPP, it would organise more of such demonstrations across the country to "express our absolute disenchantment about the reckless governance of this country".
Addressing a press conference in Bolgatanga last Wednesday, the Regional Youth Organiser of the party, Mr Bashiru Ibrahim, noted that the President Mahama-led NDC government had failed to deliver on its promises to residents of the three regions of the north and Ghanaians at large.
"We have now run out of patience and wish to bring our issues into the limelight in the hope that the President would address these concerns,” he said.
SADA
Mr Ibrahim expressed regret that the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) had become an avenue for "unbridled corruption and the President alone must take the blame for such developments".
The NPP Youth Organiser bemoaned the collapse of the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency (GYEEDA) intervention meant to create jobs for the youth.
He further stressed that the little jobs available in the region were being lost due to the unstable power situation or the "dumsor-dumsor" in the country.
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"You promised to tar the Bawku-Bolgatanga road, revamp the rice mill, meat and the Pwalugu Tomato factories, projects that the NPP left for you; What has happened to these projects?" he asked.
Education
Mr Ibrahim alleged that feeding grants and government subventions were in arrears for not less than three terms while teacher trainee allowances had also been scrapped, thus worsening the plight of those in the three regions of the north.
"In the Bawku West District, for example, out of 44 junior high schools, 22 are under trees; what a dehumanising situation under a so-called Better Ghana Agenda!"he pointed out.
Ethnocentrism
The youth organiser condemned the politics of ethnocentrism, saying "what matters is not where you come from but the capacity and ability of our leaders to manage the country's resources for the benefit of all Ghanaians".
Propaganda
The party’s Regional Chairman, Mr Adam Mahama, observed that the ruling NDC government had been engaging in a lot of propaganda and expressed the hope that come 2016, the electorate would give the NPP flag bearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the nod to rule the country.