The Ashanti Regional Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party, Gideon Boako, says he is worried about the irresponsible and divided society that the Mills-Mahama NDC administration is creating; maintaining that such acts of governance by the ruling party is very alarming as it is generating so much despondency and apathy in the entire nation.
Gideon Boako believes that as the crucial December Presidential and Parliamentary election gathers momentum with its heightened tension, such premeditated and divisive governance by the NDC must be condemned by the good people of this country since its has the potential of plunging the entire nation into conflicts.
The regional youth boss in an interview with the New Statesman in Kumasi at the weekend said President Mills� government is sharply dividing the nation on tribal lines rather than uniting the nation and as a result creating an irresponsible society.
According to Mr Boako, �we cannot have a responsible country when the government creates the impression that it is for a particular ethnic group or when the government continues to intimidate a particular tribe all because they are not in tune with their political traditions and directions.�
He was shocked that a cabinet minister, referring to the Minister of Finance, could make a public statement that the NDC government is deliberately denying the Ashanti region of its share of development because the region has not been in bed with the NDC party.
Gideon Boako said �this is a clear manifestation of how the NDC government detests the people in this region and Ashantis in particular�
He added that Ghana is sitting on a time bomb and until the nation unites and �overthrows� the NDC in this year�s election, �some tribes will become slaves in their own country�.
�Ghanaians must be wide awake and see through the diabolic plans of the NDC. Today communal and ethnic clashes in central region, the next time it�s in the Volta region, and the president himself, claiming to be afraid of the �Ashanti Project�, so what sort of a country is he building�, Gideon Boako asked.
The regional party youth organizer is convinced that the NDC is in government not for the good of Ghanaians but �they are here to create tribal lines between us and while we busily try to find a common ground to unit, then they will milk us of our natural resources and wealth for themselves and cronies, leaving us to our fate.�
According to him, president Mills and his NDC since assuming office some three and half years ago have done nothing to suggest that they carry the ambitions and aspirations of Ghanaians at heart, insisting that the president has not demonstrated that he is indeed the father for all as he always claims to be.
He said: �this is a president who openly tells foreigners that he is afraid of the so-called �great Ashanti Project�, and as if not enough he then rewards a member of his government who openly insults a particular ethnic group with a deputy ministerial position and he goes around to say I care for you and am a father for all.�
Mr Gideon Boako asserted that the actions and inactions of the ruling government point to the fact that they are insensitive, overbearing, ethnocentric and hypocritical, noting that responsible government provides programmes and policies that translate into positive economic lives of the people which the NDC have failed to do.
He insisted there is no cordial relationship between the NDC government and the people because to him, the government has created what he described as �a discriminatory environment between the rich and the poor as well as villagers and urbanites�, a situation he noted could break the nation if care is not taken to address the mess created by the NDC government.
The youth organizer therefore petitioned the Christian Council, the Peace Council and other allied institutions to be bold enough to chastise the government on such sensitive tribal pronouncements that he said could trigger the rise in the political temperature during this year�s elections.
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