A NEW political party, the TRADES CONGRESS PARTY (TCP) formed by astute
technocrats who understand the multifaceted problems of the country, would be
launched in Ghana in October this year and contest in future elections to be
able to direct national development with a new political system,
Socio-Capitalism, to give Ghanaians every opportunity to create and accumulate
wealth (capital).

The vision of the new party, according to the founder, Dr. Anthony Toku, a
prolific politician trained in the United States, is to build a Socio-Capitalist
State in which Ghanaians will have every opportunity to work hard enough to
create and accumulate wealth according to ones capacity and capabilities.

Dr. Toku’s political party intends to build a Socio-Capitalist State in which
the people will be given every opportunity to create and accumulate wealth.
"Moving people from poverty to prosperity will be one of the major
pre-occupations of this new political party," the founder has emphasized.

He said the TCP will develop policies and practices that would promote this
political system and direct the country to a middle income status since TCP
cannot afford to play politics with issues that affect the lives of the people.

"It is a system that will eliminate abject poverty and any sign of
underdevelopment," Dr. Toku has said.

He noted that Ghanaians cannot afford to live in poverty and politicians cannot
play politics with issues that affect the lives of the people.

The founder of the new political party has stated its time to move the people of
Ghana from poverty to prosperity after 53 years of independence.

He has lamented that the country needs a clear cut political agenda upon which
policies can be developed to move the country forward.

Dr. Toku’s concerns stem from that the fact that no political party, since the
overthrow of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, has clearly defined the kind of country they
want to build.

Trades Congress Party (formerly Traditional Congress Party), he said, will focus
on the development and management of social factors such as corruption,
education, health, technology, transportation, housing, public institutions,
water supply, electricity supply and other social factors that must work in
concert with capital factors to engage everybody to create and accumulate
wealth.

With a total breakdown of the moral fabric of the society which needs to be
addressed, a TCP government will direct immense resources toward the development
of human resources which have been neglected resulting in inefficiency leading
to cumbersome bureaucracies in providing service to the public.

Dr. Toku has said public institutions will be strengthened by getting rid of
social ills that have impeded development and advancement. These institutions
will be staffed with highly qualified individuals with a renewed mindset and the
capacity to transform the institutions. Public officers engaged in social ills
will be considered as nation wreckers and will pay heavily for their acts.

"Under a Socio-capitalist state, politicians will become servants of the people
and not lords to be served. They will be required to eschew bribery and
corruption and other ills of the society," he said. E N D.
DR. BOATENG MAKES GHANA PROUD
…He chairs SmartProcurement World Conference in South Africa
THE SOUTH African-based Ghanaian Founder, President and CEO of PanAvest
International and the globally acclaimed Supply Chain expert, Dr. Douglas
Boateng has been selected to chair the SmartProcurement World Panel discussion
scheduled for November 16-18, 2010 in South Africa.

The theme of the discussion is "The Strategic Mandate of the Procurement
Profession".The SmartProcurement World conference is the largest functional
specific commercial convention on the continent attracting aspiring and
practicing professionals involved in the procurement and supply chain
profession.

Since its inception in 2005, SmartProcurement World conference has grown to
become a leading forum for the discerning professional looking to network with
colleagues and peers plus gain thought-leading ideas.

Panelists include some of the leading practitioners in the industry responsible
for billions of Rands and USD dollar equivalent procurement expenditure.

Sectors represented on the panel include, amongst others, banking, financial
services, logistics, chemicals, ICT, mining, public sector, agriculture, retail
and consulting.

Smartprocurement.net is Africa's leading Supply Chain online infomediary with
more than 24 000 readers in both the private and public sectors.
SmartProcurement.net has hundreds of useful articles relating to every aspect of
world class procurement (public and private sector).

This year, Dr. Boateng who is also the Founding President of the West African
Institute for Supply chain Leadership (WAISCL) in Ghana will chair and moderate
the SmartProcurement World panel discussion at the 2010 international
SmartProcurement World Conference.

In addition to being an editorial board member of Smart Procurement, Dr Boateng
is also external examiner and postgraduate and doctoral project supervisor on
supply chain management at UNISA’ SBL and President of the Institute of
Operations Management Africa.

PanAvest International, Dr. Boateng’s baby, is a niche business advisory,
education, training, coaching and mentoring company. The organization’s goal is
to assist companies to profitably extend their market reach through the
application of long term innovative, Business Development Logistics and Supply
Chain Management solutions.

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