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PNC to offer Ghanaians abroad duty
free clearance regime
Accra, July 29, Ghanadot/GNA – The People’s National
Convention (PNC) has offered Ghanaians abroad a duty free
clearance regime, to motivate them to comeback home and
contribute towards national development.
“I will offer all Ghanaians who have been abroad for at
least six months or longer, duty free clearance of their
goods and property and a PNC government shall assist those
who want to relocate at a city of their choice in Ghana,” Dr
Edward Nasigire Mahama, the party’s flag bearer for Election
2008 told Ghanaians in North America.
Dr Mahama and some leading member of the party who are on a
campaign tour of America have so far touched based with
Ghanaians, African-Americans and the African communities in
Lansing Michigan, Chicago.
In an electronic mail to the Ghana News Agency in Accra on
Tuesday, Dr Mahama called on all Ghanaians abroad to come
home in their numbers as a PNC led-Government would consider
all citizens of Ghana as shareholders in national
development.
“A PNC Government shall establish a most enabling
environment, using the views of all who have practical ideas
to contribute to the commercial, social and economic
development of our country.
“We shall cherish role models in business, the professions,
trade, science, technology and other pursuits. Instead of
penalizing, victimizing and harassing role models, investors
will experience an excellent, facilitating
and unprecedented climate for growth,” Dr Mahama stated.
“There is a great deal to be done back home. We need
sincerely to identify the blocks to our individual and
national progress while each of us must support and boost
the healing and rebuilding of Ghana’s economic and social
wounds.
“Simultaneously, in the management of our national affairs,
we must exercise the appropriate levels of modesty,
irrevocable commitment to transparency, accountability,
probity and honesty. Each and everyone of us needs a change
in our individual attitudes. I believe that I can be trusted
with the leadership of our nation,” Dr Mahama said.
He said what the country needed most was principled and
honest leadership. “If the people of Ghana elect me as their
president, my ceaseless duty will be to galvanize all the
talents and energies available to us, regardless of our
respective political persuasions, religious beliefs, age,
gender and ethnic roots.”
Dr Mahama distributed copies of the PNC Election 2008
Manifesto and other party paraphernalia.
Alhaji Ahmed Ramandan, PNC National Chairman, said a PNC-led
government would create enabling environment for Ghanaians
shareholding and related joint venture investment in various
income-earning private or joint private-government
investments that Ghana previously peddled abroad in search
of foreign aid.
He said the venture would lead to the reducing and eventual
limiting of the national external debts while the nation
shall sooner than later regain increasing independence in
managing its national economic and social development in a
manner that was devoid of various conditionalities.
Alhaji Ramandan explained the social, economic and political
situation in the country, saying “the time has come for
Ghanaians to show the New Patriotic Party (NPP) the way out.
“With all the goodwill Ghanaians showered on the NPP in
2001, the party has woefully failed the electorate and must
be booted out of governance. They have hit their limit and
there is urgent need for a change of Government.”
GNA
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