From: Stephen A.Quaye, Toronto-Canada.

Majority of Ghanaians resident in Greater Toronto Area [GTA] in Canada, have given the New Patriotic Party [NPP] thumps up to wrest power from the National Democratic Congress [NDC] come 2016 general elections.

They observed that President John Dramani Mahama has failed Ghanaians by creating harsh economic conditions in the country thereby making people to depend on their relatives in foreign countries for their daily bread.

Some Ghanaians made the observation when speaking at a town hall meeting that was organized by the NPP Toronto-Chapter at Ghanaian Presbyterian Church on August 16, 2015.

As they noted, the NDC government has squeezed the economy back home so much to the point that citizens who could not bear the hardship are now being a burden on their relatives in foreign destinations as their bread winners.

With this, they accepted that the only way to lift the burden off their shoulders is for NPP to wrest power from the NDC, form the next government to implement policies and programmes that will bring economic freedom to all.


The town hall meeting which was under the theme,” Ghana at cross roads: Social and Economic realities and how the NPP can win the 2016 elections” gave the Ghanaians who are resident in [GTA] the opportunity to share their views on socio-economic issues in Ghana and why NPP has the resources to place Ghana back on the road to development.

Responding to their concerns, the Member of Parliament [MP] for Asin Central Mr. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, appealed to Ghanaians in foreign destinations to impress upon their relatives back home to “flush out the incompetent NDC government for competent NPP government to take over”.

He explained that, because president Mahama has failed to uproot corruption from the system, his NDC government is presently cash strapped thereby creating pour living standards for the ordinary Ghanaian to also depend on their relatives in diaspora for their daily bread.

“It is time for you to tell your relatives who are depending on you as their bread winners because of Mahama’s pour government, to vote out the NDC and bring in the NPP to give you economic freedom” he appealed to all Ghanaians in diaspora.

Mr. Kennedy Agyapong fired at the NDC ministers stating that they do not have the brains to lead the country as the only brains they do have is to steal money from the state coffers to bring untold hardship on ordinary Ghanaians.

He said, “The NDC has no clue when it comes to managing the country’s resources as from President Mahama all the way down to Asiedu Nketia’s understanding of ruling the country “is stealing from state coffers”.

Giving the NPP credit over the NDC, he hinted that during former president J.A.Kufuor’s second term of office, he caught off IMF loans replacing it with Internally Generated Fund IGF where revenues were generated internally to support development projects.

But close to seven years under government of late Atta Mills and President Mahama, the country is bankrupt whiles NDC members proud themselves for contracting foreign loans worsening the country’s debt every now and then.

The Asin Central MP added that suppose the NDC minister’s and district chief executives have the brains to rule the country, they would have been very creative in generating funds internally to carry out development projects and not solely depend on government subventions from local government ministry.

Accordingly, the NDC came to power through the propaganda that they were socialists but today, they have collapsed the medical system the NPP set up forcing doctors to go on strike, collapse the education system to create unemployment associations.

Looking at situations in the past and present, Kennedy Agyapong, was not convinced that the NDC party in power can conjure any magic to retain power after 2016 general elections so he asked Ghanaians to vote for change in the next elections.

He made it clear that if Ghanaians do not join hands with the NPP with other opposition parties coming onboard to flush out the NDC come 2016, the wheels of government will grind to a halt and the country will be ungovernable.

“Let me repeat this once again to Ghanaians in the diaspora that you should start educating your dependant relatives back home about how you are sweating to make money here in the diaspora. Charge them to vote out the NDC government for the NPP government to bring economic freedom to all” he reached out to Ghanaians in the diaspora.

Kennedy Agyapong expressed great concern about the deplorable conditions on all the country’s highways where even right in front toll booths there are wide and open potholes.

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