NDC’s ‘People’s Manifesto’ is an immediate solution to Ghana’s problems

General news for Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Source: Class FM

2020-09-08

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The secretary general of the largest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has said that the 2020 party’s manifesto, dubbed ‘The People’s Manifesto’, is the result of innovative thinking that contains solutions to problems from Ghana.

Johnson Asiedu Nketia said on Monday, September 7, 2020, during the launch of the NDC manifesto at the Accra University for Professional Studies (UPSA) that the party thought it wise to seek solutions from ordinary people in Ghana rather than fake their experts and technocrats had all the answers.

He said the NDC used the same strategy used by former President Jerry John Rawlings in forming a Consultative Assembly of ordinary Ghanaians to draft the country’s 1992 Constitution.

Even before the manifesto was released, former President John Dramani Mahama had promised to create one million jobs for young people, legalize the okada business, provide free primary health care, fight corruption, among other promises.

In July last year, Mahama said that the NDC Manifesto Working Committee presented him with the ‘People’s Manifesto’ for the 2020 general election.

“I received a copy of our manifesto for the December 2020 elections from the Manifesto Working Committee,” Mahama wrote on social media on Republic Day, July 1, 2020.

“This document, The People’s Manifesto, will represent the NDC and my social contract with the good people of Ghana,” he said.

“I thank you all for your contributions to the compilation and, as promised, I look forward to the Policy Dialogue Series through which I will share details of the various sectors and themes of the Manifesto,” he said.

Last year, Mahama said that the NDC’s 2020 manifesto will be a document drawn up after a detailed consultative process with party members and identifiable bodies that were not necessarily political.

Speaking at the opening of the party manifesto committee in Accra on Wednesday, October 23, 2019, the party standard-bearer said that the NDC’s activities are aimed at restoring hope and “addressing the growing hardships inflicted on Ghanaians, corruption unprecedented and the family, and -friends government with which we are burdened today. “

The former president noted that the NDC, through its manifesto, will provide a solid set of policy options guided by research but, more importantly, by broad consultation, to renew hope in the governance of the country “to accelerate what it was a successful beginning for the diversification and transformation of our economy and to significantly improve the living conditions of our people ”.

According to Mahama, in the past, the NDC manifesto had been drawn up by a technical committee established by the Accra-based party and which produced for the party, a document based mainly on the experience of the members, but the 2020 manifesto It will be different.

He said that it will be a manifesto that will be the conclusion of a long and detailed “consultative process that involves broad interactions with our people, incorporating their concerns, hopes and aspirations.”

At the time, Mr. Mahama commissioned the committee to produce a document that, when “the average voter grasps, at a glance, they should be able to see in clear and simple terms what the NDC contracts to do in the next four years in their life, in their region and in all segments of our national life ”.

Since then, the NDC has consulted with many bodies, including the TUC, the UCI, the Union of Mine Workers, the student unions, People with Disabilities (PwD), the Federation of Muslim Councils, market women, fishermen and other segments of the population to gather their manifesto.