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NDC to
rewrite 1992 Constitution, if brought to power -Bagbin
Wa, Dec. 11, Ghanadot/GNA- The National Democratic Congress
(NDC) will change some provisions in the 1992 Constitution
of Ghana that are considered to be drawing back the
country's democratic process, if voted back to power in the
2008 Election.
The NDC would also improve the decentralization process by
marrying it with local government systems and relevant
organisations to tap the wisdom and values of the people.
Mr. Alban S.K. Bagbin, Minority Leader in Parliament said
these at the inauguration of a-10-member-executive of the
NDC Chapter of the Tertiary Education Institutional Network
Coordinating Council (TEIN-C) of the Upper West Region, at
Jahan Training College in Wa on Monday.
He dismissed the view been held by some people that
democracy was entrenched in the country, saying the
decentralization process had not been working well to
consolidate the democratic process.
Mr Bagbin said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had come to the
end of the road, as it failed to fight and eradicate
corruption, which has become endemic in all sectors of the
economy.
He said the NPP had no permanent sources of funding
development projects, and mentioned the National Youth
Employment Programme was faced with such difficulty.
Mr. Bagbin said the NDC would pursue visionary initiatives
that would help move the economy forward for the benefit of
the people.
On the Northern Development Fund, he said the NPP Government
had not been committed to bridging the development gap
between the Southern and the Northern parts of the country.
Mr Bagbin said the 250 billion cedis that government
allocated as seed money for the Northern Development Fund
was only a face saving gesture.
He said development partners put pressure on government to
make special allocation of money for the development of the
North due to the devastating floods hence the seed money.
Mr Bagbin said "We all know what happened to the HIPC and
the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy Fund, the North did not
benefit even though the three Northern regions are the
poorest in the country."
He said the youth of the country have been left in the
midstream, as there had not been any concrete development
plan designed to manage the unemployment situation.
Mr Caesar Kale, the Regional Secretary of the NDC, urged the
executives to work hard to enable the party win back power
in the 2008 Election.
Mr Mohammed Awal Issah, President of the TEIN-C, said the
Council was formed to coordinate the activities of all
members of TEIN in the various institutions to achieve a
common goal.
He assured the regional party executives that the Council
would propagate the bad policies and programmes of the NPP
so that the people would vote out the NPP from power.
Alhaji Amidu Sulemana, a former Regional Minister, asked
members of TEIN to be extra vigilant at polling stations
during the 2008 Election and not to allow themselves to be
swayed by gifts from the NPP to take wrong decisions.
GNA
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