PRESS RELEASE
31st Oct, 2010
National Democratic Congress government
to create tea cup image for President Mills
The Youth Wing of the New Patriotic Party, wish to express
our uttermost shock and disgust at the decision by the
Mills-led ruling National Democratic Congress government to
create an image for President Mills by wasting the tax
payers’ money in producing the President’s photographs and
cups embossed with his pictures for distribution to schools
and school children in the country.
We deem this project as an absolute misplaced priority and a
useless agenda being undertaken by a government that has
clearly lost total focus and does not put any premium on the
need to tackle the most relevant problems and challenges
that confront the educational sector.
We are particularly aghast that a government headed by an
educationist of professorial standing thinks this is the
best way to expend the nation’s resources at the time the
educational sector is crying for serious attention in many
facets.
The School Feeding Programme is in a complete mess; some
school children still learn under trees; the promise to
provide school uniforms for all school children remains
unfulfilled; accommodation problems continue to bedevil both
second cycle and tertiary institutions while teachers at all
levels continue to complain about inadequate supply of
Teaching-Learning Materials required for effective and
efficient delivery of quality education.
Yet, the government that claims to care for the people
thinks it makes more sense to waste the nation’s limited
resources to imprint the image of the President on the minds
of pupils and students in the country by making photographs
of the President available to the schools.
It is a pity – and even shameful – that this is what the NDC
government considers to be the best reaction to the
inability of pupils to identify Prof Mills as the President
of the country.
We deem this project as a very cheap way of creating an
image for the President and making him popular among the
nation’s school children who do not have him in mind because
they do not see enough concrete things in their communities
with which they can associate the non-performing President.
We want to further state that it contributes nothing to the
nation’s socio-economic development, especially educational
development, to waste the tax payers’ money to produce cups
embossed with the President’s pictures and distribute them
to school children.
This project, we are convinced, will only contribute to
creating an “artificial” popularity for the President who
has failed woefully to deliver or leave a concrete mark for
Ghanaian school children to associate him with.
We find it very ironic and even hypocritical that a group
that condemned the previous Kufuor government over its
decision to make some souvenirs including mini-Ghana flags
and cups available to Ghanaian school children as part of
the Ghana @ 50 celebrations do not see anything wrong
wasting the nation’s money on this useless public relations
project for the President.
Finally we want to urge the President to deliver the goods
in concrete terms for all, including Ghanaian school
children, to see as former President did. This is what will
leave a concrete legacy that will forever be cherished and
remembered and leave his image on the minds of Ghanaian
school children. The waste of our resources to create an
image for the President and further make him popular among
school children is not in the interest of the nation, and
needs to be condemned by all who have the interest of the
nation at heart.
SIGNED
Anthony Abayifaa Karbo
National Youth Organizer, NPP
0244204160
