..What can they do better that they could not do as Ministers?
MR. CHARLES Kofi Wayo, the Leader of United Renaissance Party (URP), has reiterated the loaded and impregnated question posed by one of the presidential candidates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Boakye Agyarko to his opponents that what are they to do better that have not been done during their tenure of office as cabinet Ministers before seeking the mandate of Ghanaians to lead the country.

He said the inability of the aspirants to present their proposals to the President and followed it up at the Parliament for its discourse, implies that they are not qualified to lead the nation.

“What can they do better that they could not do as Ministers? Let them tell the whole world any proposals that they have written to the President, which was not honoured. They should tell the whole world the number of times that they have defended their proposals at parliament,” he said.

Speaking to The Chronicle in an interview on a wide range of issues including energy crisis, his vision for the nation Ghana, recent fund raising of the NDC through its Founder, Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings among others, Mr. Wayo, a maverick politician said, “The people jostling to lead the NPP are not qualified to rule this nation. They lack common sense and capability.”

According to him, all the aspirants do not care about the plight of the nation and are only interested in becoming the President. “Currently we have people conducting traffic lights when the lights are off instead of the Police. None of these Ministers have complained about this. They are only interested in becoming a President on the ignorance of Ghanaians.”

Mr. Wayo, who missed no chance at all in lashing at President Kufuor-lead administration anytime he gets the opportunity, said, the resignation of eight cabinet Ministers to pursue their presidential ambitions indicated that they think they can do better than the President.

“They resigned because they believed that the country was not well managed by the President. They believe that President Kufuor is incompetent and incapable of helping the nation but to consistently depend on IMF and international donors. The URP would never depend upon foreign donors,’ he said.

Touching on the recent fund raising of the NDC Founderr, which has generated hue and cry within the public to the extent that others are seeking for the source of the fund, the self-confessed energy expert told this paper that the move to investigate the funding of the matter was in a bad taste.

He said if the NPP is urging the NDC to disclose their account, the NPP should do likewise because they have also been raising funds for their political activities without even telling the whole world the amount they have got.

“If that is the case, they should also disclose their sources of income. The ministers aspiring to lead the NPP should disclose to us where they are getting their ¢250m from to pay for their presidential nomination fees. They are public figures.”

“The NPP should tell us their sources of income because they have being doing the same thing. Have they told us the amount of money given to them by their former MP for Nkoranza, Mr. Eric Amoateng? There is no point in looking into the funding of the NDC,” he said.

According to him, he is tempted to believe that the cocaine business that has now emerged in the country was a promise made to the cocaine dealers by the NPP party. Mr. Wayo asked, “I wanted to know whether the NPP has promised cocaine dealers and that is why much cocaine cases are now coming to Ghana,’ he asked.

The leader of the URP, who stated that his primary concern was the plight of the citizens but not to pose his nose into the activities of cocaine cases in the country, said presidential aspirants of the NPP are taking Ghanaians for a ride because Ghanaians are not demanding accountability from them.

“If people are civilize enough and demand accountability from them, most of them would not vie for that post. They cannot provide basic amenities for the people.”

On his talk on the energy crisis, Kofi Wayo asked Ghanaians and civil societies to rise up against the government for plunging the country into total darkness.

He said the government must stop treating Ghanaians in that manner and added that some bigwigs within the NPP are only bringing the whites to rob the nation.

He asserted that those coming to manage the barge would not be able to live up to expectation except they are being brought by their cronies in the NPP to make more money.

He also what is preventing the nation from firing some ‘incompetent’ staff from the Volta River Authority.

Quizzed on the chances of his URP, Mr. Wayo, said having toured the country, he realized that people have now bought his policies and ideas and are prepared to vote for him in 2008.

“The reception that I receive across the country was unbelievable. I believe that there is awakening and all my preaching are beginning to take root,” he said.