of raising funds

A PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANT of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has disclosed how he would manage to raise the colossal ¢250million needed for the only the filing fees for each candidate.

According to him he was moving straight to embark on grassroots financing and also gather funds from those who believe in his plans.

“How can I raise ¢250million alone no single candidate can raise the amount needed to campaign?” he intimated.

Speaking to The Chronicle in an interview on the phone, he said “I am going to raise funds through grassroots mobilization as it is done in some of the developed economies particularly, the United States of America.”

Papa Ankomah indicated that he would embark on his plans as soon as he launched his campaign. He did not like the idea of disclosing the date for the launching of his campaign but he however assured that the press would be duly be informed before the day.

Touching on the amount charged for filing nominations he said “I believe it was reasonable taking into consideration that in 2004 we charged ¢100million whiles there was a sitting president who was contesting” Papa Ankomah told The Chronicle.

He argued that the money was reasonable in the sense that it was not too much for people who wants to offer themselves and not too small for people to take the contest for a joke.

Papa Ankomah was the Minister of Education, Science and Sport on 27th April 2006, Interior Minister -11th January 2005 - 27 April 2006, Attorney General Apr 2003 - January 2005, Minister of Justice April 2003 - Jan 2005, Minister for Parliamentary Affairs October 2001 - Mar 2003 and Minister for Youth and Sports August 2001 - September 2001) Papa Owusu-Ankomah , sometimes called the Quiet Dynamo of Ghanaian politics, according to Wikipedia, was born in Ghana on 27 April 1958 to a family of entrepreneurs in the retail and real estate industries in the Western Region. Papa’s father, the late Mr. Yaw Owusu-Ankomah, hailed from Atibie in the Kwahu District of the Eastern Region, while his mother, a still feisty octogenarian – Madam Araba Owomoye Owusu-Ankomah - hails from Dixcove in the Western Region