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Political
stakes are ripe for CPP to win Election 2008
Accra, Dec. 08, Ghanadot/GNA – Mr. Bright Akwetey, a leading
Legal Practitioner, on Friday said the political stakes are
ripe for the Convention People’s Party (CPP) to win
Elections 2008.
He said: “Ghanaians have gone through hardship for almost 16
years of a resemblance of democratic governance under both
the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and New Patriotic
Party (NPP).
“The cry now is CPP, the founder of the nation should come
back and offer human centred governance to give true meaning
of democracy,” Mr Akwetey told newsmen in Accra.
Explaining his vision for Ghana, he said, “I look forward to
a just, free and democratic society of hardworking and
dignified people; proud of their culture and heritage and
working diligently to promote their progress and prosperity
within a new and equitable development paradigm".
Mr Akwetey said under his presidency he would provide
alternative development strategy, which would be different
from the policies of the NDC and the NPP in the provision of
the basic necessities of life that would lead to a
meaningful improvement in the lives of the ordinary
Ghanaian.
He said he "believe that the State must not abdicate its
responsibilities in society in the name privatisation. The
State must neither shirk its responsibilities to the poor
and marginalized in society, nor to the vulnerable and the
afflicted.
“The welfare of the people must be paramount in all planning
schemes."
Mr. Akwetey also expressed his desire to build Ghana into a
strong, powerful and self-reliant State with full control
over its strategic assets and natural resources.
He said he wanted “to see Ghanaians as a proud, confident,
disciplined and law-abiding citizens, whose standards of
living is measured not in GDP terms, but also in terms of
the extent to which the average Ghanaians can afford good
quality education, shelter, clothing, food and employment
and has the opportunity to travel in decent transport and on
secure and safe roads”.
He said his new development strategy would repose faith in
the Ghanaian and ensure that the citizens were given the
enabling environment to operate.
He said he would institute national awards to honour key
discoveries and inventions in science and technology and
also create the enabling environment for funding local
industries that utilised the results of local discoveries,
inventions and local raw materials.
Mr Akwetey, a Former Chief State Attorney, said even though
the country had made some success in the areas of human
rights, democracy, stability and freedom of the press, there
were doubts as to whether this freedom and seeming economic
progress were well anchored to sustain accelerated
development for the next 50 years.
He said, Ghana today had been reduced to a nation riddled
with crime; corruption; insensitiveness and arrogance in
high places; impunity and ineptness and selfishness with
patriotism relegated to the back-burner.
Mr Akwetey said there was general breakdown of law and order
and a drift into recklessness, lawlessness and anarchy in
the country.
He said there was no dearth of laws in the country to deal
with all these situations but what had been lacking were the
willingness, the determination, and the courage to enforce
the existing laws.
GNA
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