According to him, prudent use of the nation’s natural resources is the surest way to fund free university education.

“University education would guarantee the nation Quality citizenship and workforce, a responsible and knowledgeable populace and accountable and sensitive governments.”

“In the knowledge based world in which we now exist, education is so important and is directly linked to the economic development and the stability and progress of a nation. We cannot have a nation of a few literates and vast numbers of illiterates and we must ensure that everyone has the opportunity to explore their talents to the fullest.”

Lawyer Ivor Green Street made the proposal at the 17th Annual delegates’ conference of the University Students Association of Ghana, at the University for Development Studies (UDS) Tamale City campus, Dungu.

Economic independence
He tasked government to re-renegotiate all incentives to international companies and also end tax breaks to multinationals.

This in Ivor Green Street’s anticipation could lead to the nation’s attainment of the much awaited economic independence.

“I call on President Akufo-Addo to renegotiate all agreements with companies that offer incentives that do not inure to the benefit of the people of Ghana and end or significantly reduce tax holidays and tax breaks we give mining, oil, free zone and other multinational companies.”

“Attracting investment policies of the NPP and NDC which had been exactly the same for year after year had been to offer tax incentives to attract foreign direct investment. No real gains have been achieved from this policy. Instead our trade taxes have declined.”

“Studies have shown that Ghana loses more than $ 1.5 billion annually as a result of tax incentives. That is over half the entire Government of Ghana budget for education,” he lamented.

Below is the full statement:

EXPLORING ALTERNATIVE AVENUES TO FUND UNIVERSITY EDUCATION: THE ROLE OF STAKEHOLDERS
It is a great pleasure to be here today at the University of Development Studies to be part of the Annual Delegates Conference for USAG to offer some thoughts on the important matter of funding University education. Of course, different factors, including your environment and acquired ideas can end up determining your basic views on important matters like education.

As the son of not one but two University Professors of the University of Ghana at Legon, Accra I could be described as a campus baby having been born there and spent my childhood years surrounded by all things to do with education.

Education in general therefore, has a special place in my heart and especially University Education in particular. As you can imagine, we as children grew up with academics arguing with each other incessantly and never agreeing. In the same way, the arguments about the ways to fund education in general and university education in particular never seem to end.

If you didn’t know I was a campus boy with a special affinity for education matters I know that all of you are intellectuals and also have highly developed political antennae and may therefore have noticed that last year 2016, the election year, I had the great privilege and honor to represent the Convention People’s Party, the Party of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah whom I know you all know and also accept to be the founder of Ghana.
He also had a special place for education in the formulation of a larger vision for the people of Ghana. That is why there is so much evidence that as we took our first steps into nationhood there was a total commitment from the seat of Government to the design of an African-centered National Education Policy as part of the creation of a modern, socialist, pan African state.

The topic before me today though, is what are the alternative avenues to funding University education. Firstly, let me state some very brief but important historical facts:

As far back as the middle to the late 1950s the CPP Government under its 5-year development plan started an ambitious educational program through massive investment in educational infrastructure and assistance to private and missionary owned and ran schools. It also made tuition in all schools free and books were also free. The cost of education was only the cost of boarding and lodging and this was made free for all students in Northern Ghana. Sixth form was made free for all students who gained admission after O’levels. So let’s ask ourselves this question: who introduced fees payment since 1966 to date when now University which was free is so expensive that most people cannot afford it? The history of fees payments can be directly traced to both the NPP and the NDC.

So it is clear, we believe and have always believed that Education should be free from the Kindergarten level to the basic level, to the secondary level and up to the tertiary level.

Yes, we believe, University education should be free and today I shall explain why we believe education including University education should be free and one of the avenues which could be used to pay for it.

That avenue which I will speak about today is for Government to simply have the political will to re-negotiate and end or significantly reduce tax holidays and tax breaks we give mining, oil, free zone and other multinational companies thereby freeing up resources to ensure free access to education and greater investment in the sector as well as making resources available for other critical social sectors.

It is that simple. It is the tax methods of some multinational companies and the failure of NDC and NPP over all these years to ever face them squarely. That is one of the contributory factors to the alarming and ever increasing gap between the rich and the poor. Successive NDC and NPP governments have continued to give incentives to companies who also repatriate their profits out of the country without paying taxes. Meanwhile, we the ordinary Ghanaians are forced to pay indirect taxes which pay for the roads, communication and other public infrastructure that these same multinationals use for free and which same multinationals also dodge tax in addition.

So, why should education be free? The answer is obvious and simple. It is one of the critical policies that would guarantee us; Quality citizenship and workforce; A responsible and knowledgeable populace; And accountable and sensitive governments.

Delivering it is also simple. It merely requires the will to do so. In this knowledge based world in which we now exist, education is so so important and is directly linked to the economic development and the stability and progress of a nation. We cannot have a nation of a few literates and vast numbers of illiterates and we must ensure that everyone has the opportunity to explore their talents to the fullest.

We must do all we can to produce a creative and innovative people that believe in scientific enquiry as much as they imbibe human values that assures progress and happiness. Without holistic education right from the bottom to the top we will not produce the universally educated Ghanaian that we must seek to achieve.

That is why education in general and University education in particular must be free otherwise the vast majority of our people will continue to be denied access to participate and contribute to this country’s glorious future. To this extent, we in the CPP believe that University students should also even have the opportunity for subsidized travel abroad to experience other cultures and systems of existence.
People think that what we are offering is free because it costs nothing. On the contrary what we are proposing is not free, it is very very expensive but we see it as a critical social investment that is unavoidable if we in Ghana are determined about being seriously part of the 21st century.

There are many avenues but today I shall show you one particular avenue where significant additional resources can be obtained that can care for the cost of free University education. It is just a matter of political will and the desire to re-allocate resources for social need.

The investment policy of the NPP and NDC which is exactly the same for year after year has been to offer tax incentives to attract foreign direct investment. No real gains have been achieved from this policy. Instead our trade taxes have declined. Studies have shown that Ghana loses more than $ 1.5 billion annually as a result of tax incentives. That is over half the entire Government of Ghana budget for education.

Tax breaks given to attract companies causes money to leave this country to tax havens and prevents us raising revenue leading to an inability to invest in education and other key social sectors. How can you claim you don’t have the money when every year you are giving millions away through tax breaks? Especially, when it has been proved that it is Not tax breaks that attract foreign investment but rather a skilled workforce, good infrastructure, an attractive fiscal environment and law and order to mention a few. They attract investment far more effectively than tax breaks.

For your information, the Internal Revenue Act 2000 (ACT592 ) as amended; the Internal Revenue Regulation 2001 (LI 1675); the Value Added Tax Act 1998 (ACT 546) as amended; the Value Added Regulations 1998 (LI 1648); the Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (Management) Law 2003 Act (PNDC L330 ) as amended; the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (Promotion of Tourism) Instrument, 2005 L.I. 1817; the GIPC law, Act 856 of 2013; the Ghana Free Zones Act 1995 (504) as amended; the Minerals and Mining Act 2006 (Act 703); the Minerals (Royalties) Regulations 1987 (LI 1349); the Petroleum Income Tax Law 1987 (PNDCL 188) and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation Model Agreement are all laws which in some shape or form have provisions that deal with extensive tax exemptions and incentives.

There are a whole series of incentives, from special corporate income tax rates, tax holidays, location incentives, capital allowance, reduced royalties and others.

Under the Free Zone Act, 1995 (Act 504) for instance, the imports of a free zone company are exempt from the payment of all indirect taxes and duties, free zone companies enjoy a tax holiday of 10 ten years from the payment of income tax on profits, after the expiry of the 10 years, a free zone company pays corporate tax on profits at the reduced rate of only 8%, while shareholders are exempt from the payment of withholding taxes on dividends arising out of free zone investment.

In a free zone, companies are only required to produce 70% of the output for export, while the rest of the products can be sold in Ghana if they pay the relevant taxes. But the fact that Free zone companies carry out their activities in Ghana means there is a high risk of goods produced in the Free Zones enclave being smuggled onto our domestic market without paying taxes. Meanwhile Government will say there’s no money for free University Education.

If the Free Zones are doing so well and we are exporting so much why do we have such continued trade deficits? It means that goods produced in the Free Zones are secretly getting onto the local market without the country earning money and with the companies paying less taxes.

In July 2011 in the oil sector when the EO Group sold its 3.5% stake in Kosmos to Tullow Oil, worth some $300 million, it never paid the 10% tax amounting to a loss of $30 million. When Sabre oil sold its 4% share in Tullow Oil to PetroSA it never paid its 10% tax on a $365-million-dollar deal and we lost another $36 million dollars. All these were due to the interpretation of the relevant laws dealing with tax exemptions on capital gains tax, which at that time were not clear on their application to petroleum operations.

In the mining sector, so called stability agreements have clauses which have frozen the tax laws of Ghana for periods between 10 and 15 years. These revenue losses have run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. These have been especially the case for Newmont and AngloGold Ashanti and more recently Goldfields Ghana. The incentives are supposedly to help those companies recoup their investment. We believe the balance is not right and too much favor is given to capital over social investment and we should dismantle such incentives to generate greater resources for education and other areas.

Our resources are critical for national development because that is where we can gain great revenue. That is why the 1992 Constitution vests all minerals in the territory of Ghana and offshore in the President of Ghana in trust for the people of Ghana. The very poorly negotiated Newmont agreement of 2003 was later altered with an improved agreement ratified by Parliament in 2015. However, not learning from the past, another very poorly negotiated agreement with Goldfields was ratified in 2016 with the connivance of both NDC and NPP.

The agreement was tabled in Parliament on 16th March 2016, referred to the Select Committee on Mines and Energy the same day, they incredibly reported back the following day 17th March, Parliament waived the Standing Order Requirement for a 48-hour wait, the motion for approval was put immediately at 9.30 pm and the Goldfield agreements were ratified 10 minutes later at 9.40 pm. A 10-minute discussion one day after a complex agreement had been tabled. All to allow for a reduction in taxes and royalties for a multinational mining company and you are wondering why your University education is not free? And this was after experts had objected to the terms.

Between 2011 and 2012 Ghana lost another $100 million dollars due to another stability agreement. The multinational SINOPEC which constructed the Gas infrastructure project didn’t pay corporate income tax didn’t pay import duties and didn’t pay VAT. The list goes on and on and on. It is endless.

I could also take you on a journey down numerous other alternative avenues for ensuring we have sufficient resources to provide free University education and other critical social investments but time today will not permit that. The important point to note is that the money is there and we must come together and fight for it to be used to benefit the ordinary Ghanaian not for the benefit of some shareholders on the international stock market.

I hope it is clear to you now that quite simply there are numerous avenues available to find the money to serve the people of this country and offer them true hope and opportunity. It is about leadership and the desire of that leadership to take bold decisions that will ensure the people benefit. I promise you the money is there.

We are concerned about poverty and the lack of opportunity in Ghana which is such a wealthy country. We are concerned and are opposed to successive governments of the NDC and NPP who continue to give tax revenues away in the form of tax incentives and because of this we are losing revenue that could solve our problems which is what the tax regime is supposed to do.

The President H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa has stated in one of his speeches and I quote:

“…I am confident that we can achieve the dreams of our forebears and be worthy inheritors of this land. Let us therefore mobilize for the happy and prosperous Ghana of tomorrow, in which all of us, including our youth, our women and the vulnerable in our society, will have equal opportunities to realize our potential, and build lives of dignity. Then, our independence will be meaningful…”

I would urge the President that let our discussions be as he said; about making our Independence meaningful. Discussions about our Political Independence are for PhD thesis. The Independence we have to seek now to achieve those lofty and worthy ideals to which he referred is greater economic independence. This greater economic independence can be achieved and we therefore urge him to do so, by renegotiating all agreements with companies that offer incentives that do not inure to the benefit of the people of Ghana and end or significantly reduce tax holidays and tax breaks we give mining, oil, free zone and other multinational companies.

Because, for too long our people have been cheated by their leaders and the people are suffering and it is time for Ghanaians to access a greater share of the wealth of this nation.

We believe that education and University education CAN be provided free and MUST be provided free and WOULD be provided free under a government of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) that truly and honestly believes in social investment that cares for the people.

Thank you

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According him, the two major political parties have for the past 24 years failed to develop the country.

He was addressing a rally at Janga in the Walewale constituency of the Northern Region.

Ivor Kobina Greenstreet charged saying, “Everywhere we go Ghanaians are tired of all the fighting of the NDC and the NPP who are fighting to get power to steal our hope and take money for themselves and their family members.”

He insisted that the NDC and the NPP have done nothing to improve the living conditions of Ghanaians.

“Separate the fight of these two evil monsters, two parties which are merely racketeers. Enough is enough, enough of these 24 years of hell from these monsters. Fellow Ghanaians it is time to end it.”

Ivor Kobina Greenstreet appealed to the electorate especially those in the three northern regions to consider the CPP as the best alternative to the two main political parties on December 7.

“There is only one party who has truly sown and therefore deserves to reap your votes. Who has truly served the people of the three northern regions and the entirety of the surface of this our beloved nation and that is the CPP, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s party.”

The CPP Presidential candidate, Ivor Kobina Greenstreet has since left for the Upper East Region on his nationwide campaign tour.

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He said as a former second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia and the previous NPP administration failed to fix the myriad of developmental deficit recorded in Mamprugu land.

“I thought this was the place where the former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana came from because he has always been talking about his plenty facts and figures and long talks in Accra and I have discovered that none of his long talks and figures mean anything on the ground.”

“Apart from his long talks and empty facts and figures, meaning nothing on the ground I thought at least within the Mamprusi area, he will do something not knowing for the eight years the NPP has done nothing here and for eight years the NDC have also come and done nothing here.”

He decried Mamprugu land’s under development saying, “Every chief we have gone to, every person we have spoken to has complained to us no water, no educational facilities and poor roads and then all of a sudden because he wants to be a vice President, he comes and gives a borehole and makes a donation to a hospital to make the people think that he cares for them.”

“Where has he been all these years? He has never been part of a northern agenda. He is one of the Accra northerners who has come to give his empty talks to deceive the people of Walewale, deceive the people of Mamprusi, deceive the people of Northern Region and deceive the people of Ghana,” he chided Bawumia.

Ivor Kobina Greenstreet downplayed the NPP’s change slogan and asked the people of Mamprugu not to vote on tribal lines.

“I am telling you the people of Walewale, the three Northern Regions and in fact all the people of Ghana to reject the arise for change of the NPP.  It will only bring one thing to this nation, one thing they desire, vengeance and chaos.”

Ivor Kobina Green Street described the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the NPP as “Evil monsters” who have the penchant for giving Ghanaians hell anytime they are in power.

“For the past 24 years the NDC and the NPP have done nothing here in the north and they are only interested in fighting for power to steal our money.”

He appealed to the electorate with emphasis on those in the three regions of the north to subscribe to the CPP’s change agenda for accelerated development.

“The CPP has the Northern Regions at heart. We are peace makers and the time has come for you to adopt the Sankofa change on December 7. Vote the CPP for accelerated development.”

The CPP Presidential candidate has since left for the Upper East Region on his nationwide campaign tour.

Flashback

Ivor Kobina Greenstreet in the Northern Region toured Mion, Saboba, Gushiegu, Nantong, Bunkprugu, Tamale north, Kumbungu, Tolon, Savelugu, Salaga south, Sagnarigu, Walewale, Nalerigu among others.

The CPP has promised Persons with Disabilities free education, free healthcare and public transportation if it wins the December 7 polls.

The Ivor Kobina Green Street-led Convention People’s Party (CPP) targets six out of the 31 parliamentary seats in the Northern Region.

In addition to the Kumbungu Parliamentary seat, which is the only one occupied by the party nationwide, it is also keeping an eye on the Sagnarigu, Mion, Yunyoo, Tatale and Salaga South seats.

Ivor Kobina Green Street hinted about the party’s resolve to use all its arsenals to retain the Kumbungu Parliamentary seat.

According to him, the party is restrategizing to safeguard the only seat it is bragging with nationwide.

The CPP has also vowed to unseat the NDC Member of Parliament for Sagnarigu constituency, Hon. Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini.

The party has fielded the Sagnarigu electoral area Assembly Woman as its Parliamentary candidate for the 2016 polls.

Endorsements

The Chief of Tamale, Naa Dakpema Dawuni Alhassan and the chief of Nyankpala in the Tolon District of the Northern Region, Abdulai Yakubu Andani endorsed the Convention People’s Party’s (CPP) Presidential candidate, Ivor Kobina Green Street.

The two chiefs touted the CPP as peace lovers and urged their subjects to give the party another chance to govern.

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The party hasput forward the incumbent Sagnarigu electoral area Assembly woman, Hajia Zelia Issah, for the parliamentary race with Alhaji Fuseini.

Hajia Zelia Issah, who is considered as a threat to the incumbent MP’s second term bid, pulled a mammoth crowd at her rally in Sagnarigu.

Hundreds of voters especially the youth, attended her night rally addressed by the CPP Presidential candidate, Ivor Kobina Greenstreet.

Ivor Greenstreet in a short speech urged the gathering to let their enthusiasm reflect on the ballot on December 7.

Hajia Zelia Issah advised the Sagnarigu constituents to shun politicians using Abudu and Andani gates as their campaign message.

She encouraged Dagombas to rise above chieftaincy politics and vote for political office seekers capable of serving their interest.

She appealed to the electorate to massively vote for the CPP on December 7 to improve their livelihood.

As a grassroot politician representing the Sagnarigu electoral area at the district assembly, Hajia Zelia Issah renewed her commitment to lobby for more projects for the constituency.

She reminded the Sagnarigu electorate to thumb print number one on the Presidential ballot and number six on that of the Parliamentary.

Hajia Zelia Issah interpreted her number six position on the ballot to mean defender of the Sagnarigu constituency.

Some of the Sagnarigu constituents told Citi News they were tired of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

They promised to vote for her  on December 7.

They touted Hajia Zelia Issah as a unifier and a trusted mother, whose influence as their representative at the assembly could not be underestimated.

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The chief described the CPP as a peace loving party with a visionary leader, Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, who’s capable of fixing the nation’s myriad of developmental challenges.

Nyankpala Lana, Abdulai Yakubu Andani, declared his support for Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, when he paid a courtesy call on him as part of his one-week campaign tour of the Northern Region.

He called on his subjects to vote for the CPP on December 7 for peace and development.

He admitted that the electorate in Nyankpala have since 1992, been supportive of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), but lacks infrastructural development.

The CPP leader, Ivor Kobina Greenstreet bemoaned the water crisis in Nyankpala, and promised to find a permanent solution to it if elected on December 7.

He assured residents of Nyankpala  of rapid infrastructural development and called for their maximum support.

In a related development,  the Regent of Tolon,  Major Retired Abubakari Sulemana, commended the CPP leader for his peaceful campaign strategy.

He promised to organize a special durbar to honour  Ivor Kobina Greenstreet during his next visit.

The Tolon Regent implored politicians to be decorous on their campaign platforms.

Ivor Kobina Greenstreet assured residents of Tolon of equitable distribution of the natural resources.

He said the CPP had the key to unlock Ghana’s socio-economic growth, which he noted has been stagnated by the previous NPP and NDC administrations.

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In addition to the Kumbungu Parliamentary seat, which is the only one occupied by the party nationwide, it is also keeping an eye on the Sagnarigu, Mion, Yunyoo, Tatale and Salaga South seats.

The incumbent Member of Parliament, Moses Amadu Yahaya, won the Kumbungu seat through a bi-election in 2010.

As part of a calculated strategy to win more parliamentary seats, the CPP has majority of its Parliamentary candidates for the 2016 elections selected from among the youth in the Northern Region.

In view of this development, the CPP appears somewhat attractive to some electorate willing to vote for the party on December 7.

Realizing the party’s chances of winning more Parliamentary seats in the Northern Region, the CPP Presidential candidate, Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, is on a rigorous one-week campaign tour of the area.

His catchy campaign message is positive change of government for improved living conditions.

Addressing a rally at Nantong, he promised to complete the Tamale-Nantong, Savelugu-Nantong and some identified feeder roads.

He pledged the party’s loyalty to build an ultra modern health facility to cater for the health needs of residents of the area. He assured smallholder farmers of subsidized farm inputs to enable them commercialize their farming activities.

Ivor Kobina Greenstreet promised women in the Nantong constituency stimulus packages and modern markets. He said all his campaign promises  would be achieved only when the CPP is voted into office on December 7.

Ivor Kobina Greenstreet made similar promises at a rally in the Savelugu constituency. He told an enthusiastic crowd there that the next CPP administration will revamp the shea industry.

He said shea processing plants will be dotted across the region to make it compete with cocoa production. He emphasized the need for the electorate to change position at the polls, by rejecting the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

He is convinced the two main political parties have nothing new to offer Ghanaians, hence their juicy campaign promises ahead of the December 7 polls.

Ivor Greenstreet, who sits in a wheelchair, has earned the overwhelming endorsement of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) wherever he goes.

The PWDs attended rallies organized in their constituencies and have vowed to vote for the CPP.

The CPP Presidential candidate has been blessed by traditional rulers of the constituencies he has so far visited in the Northern Region.

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According to him, the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) have nothing new to offer Ghanaians.

Ivor Kobina Greenstreet at a massive rally in Gushiegu, promised to revamp the agric sector when elected.

He said the next CPP administration under his watch, would build on Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s legacy. He cautioned the electorate against subscribing to the NDC and the NPP’s political gimmicks in the run up to the December 7 polls.

“We are desperate, and we are kneeling before you pleading with you to tell your mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters to vote the CPP this year.”

Ivor Kobina Greenstreet told the electorate that they would not regret voting for the CPP.

He pledged the party’s commitment to solve the nation’s problems of education, health, water and youth unemployment.

The CPP Presidential Candidate, who is on a week’s campaign tour of the Northern Region, has so far visited Mion, Tatale, Saboba, Gushiegu, Tolon, Nantong and Savelugu.

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The party said it agreed with Martin Amidu’s assertion that the Mahama-led NDC administration has led the looting of the state’s coffers.

Martin Amidu in a series of publications insists that the government has no plans of recovering the money from Mr Woyome and that the money can only be retrieved if the government is voted out of office in the upcoming elections.

Martin Amidu earlier this week was granted a request by the Supreme Court to orally examine Woyome after the Attorney General announced it was discontinuing the case.

The Director of Communications of the CPP, Kadri Abdul Rauf Issifu in an interview with Citi News said, Martin Amidu’s actions are a step in the right direction and it will help expose the corrupt actions that led to the unlawful payment of the judgement debt to Mr Woyome.

He echoed the sentiments of the party’s flagbearer, Ivor Kobina Greenstreet who has on his various campaign platforms urged Ghanaian to vote out the Mahama-led government for its acts of corruption.

He said, “there is no difference between what Ivor said in Kumasi and what Martin Amidu said yesterday. There are very serious levels of corruption going on in our country and such a corruption status quo must not be accepted and for that matter as a party, we think that the NDC and the NPP are all blameworthy for what the state has become today.”

‘CPP better placed to fight corruption’

Kadri Abdul Rauf Issifu added that the call for a new government to fight corruption is a call on the Convention People’s Party (CPP) to come to power.

“We do not expect a man like Martin Amidu to endorse NPP knowing the levels of corruption that took place under their administration. Both NDC and have had their chances and Ghanaian have seen that they are not too committed to the fight against corruption. Their fight against corruption has just been rhetorical. With the Convection People’s Party, we think that we are better placed to fight corruption in this country.

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According to Mr. Greenstreet, the ruling NDC was deceiving Ghanaians by using the name of Ghana’s founder to gain popularity.

[contextly_sidebar id=”zqYtVy0Np65isvyP1WRxFzmgFGZuGnPI”]Speaking at Ehiamenkyene in the Eastern Region where he is currently touring, the CPP Flagbearer said, “NDC, which is claiming to be Kwame Nkrumah’s party has signed economic partnership agreements and these economic partnership agreements will always make sure that we are slaves in our own country.”

“If NDC comes to tell you that they are for Kwame Nkrumah, I want to tell you that they are replica. And you know when you but something that is a replica, within a short time, the replica thing will spoil,” he implored the electorate.

“So I am pleading with you that it is only the Convention People’s Party, Kwame Nkrumah’s party, which can rescue you and the fate of all Ghanaians come December 7, 2016,” the CPP Flagbearer said.

NDC campaigning with Nkrumahism

Ahead of the 2016 polls, the NDC has held that it is the only political party living up to the legacy of Ghana’s first President, Dr. Nkrumah.

According to President Mahama, his party is undertaking developmental projects with foresight comparable to the visionary Dr. Nkrumah himself.

“Nkrumah was not ruling for that time. He was ruling for the future. All the work he was doing; Akosombo, the Motorway, the Tema Oil Refinery – up till today the Tema Oil Refinery that Nkrumah built for us, it is the refinery that is working and producing petroleum products,” Presidnet Mahama said in August on the campaign trail.

He also argued that the government, under his administration, has been able to embark on massive infrastructural developments across the length and breadth of the country like Dr. Nkrumah.

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A member of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Kwesi Pratt has said his party’s election of Ivor Kobina Greenstreet as its flagbearer was not a mistake.

According to him, they would prefer a candidate who has challenges in his limb to those with weaknesses in their “thinking abilities.”

Mr. Pratt made the comment when addressing CPP supporters at the launch of the party’s manifesto in Accra on Saturday.

[contextly_sidebar id=”xLdnVkQwPk8tQOrsRc2ptDANqYneHvEW”]“There are so many things that we hear and sometimes we just laugh them off. There are some people who think that we made a mistake in electing Ivor Kobina Greenstreet as presidential candidate of the Convention People’s Party.

“Why do they say that we made a mistake? Because he has some weakness in his lower limb? We prefer people with lower limb weakness to people with weakness in their thinking abilities. We prefer people with weaknesses in their lower limbs to people with weaknesses in their moral upbringing. We did not make a mistake by electing Ivor Kobina Greenstreet as a presidential candidate,” he added.

We’ll crucify NDC, NPP

The CPP flagbearer announced that he will crucify the governing National Democratic Congress and the opposition New Patriotic Party in the December polls to win the presidency.

Addressing party supporters at the launch of the party’s manifesto dubbed ‘Apam foforo’ at the Academy of Arts and Sciences, Ivor Greenstreet announced the party’s strategy to snatch power from the two leading parties.

“The central committee of the party agrees with the national chairman of this campaign known as crucifixion and resurrection. And that means we are going to crucify the NDC and the NPP. So…we want you to go back knowing what kind of change we are talking about.”

“This is how our change is going to be.. Our friend and our brother H.E John Dramani Mahama, we are sorry but your time is up and our father Nana Akuffo Addo of the NPP, Nana we are sorry, before the change comes we will block the two of them and change,” he added.

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By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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