Presidential aspirant of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has expressed worry about the future of Ghanaian youth.
”I am afraid I feel sorry for you. There is a lot of hunger on our land and disrespect for human lives,” Dr. Nduom told students of the PPP Youth Forum at the University of Cape Coast in the Central region over the weekend.
The programme kick-started the party’s campaign for the 2016 elections.
It was organised by the Cape Coast North constituency of the PPP.
In the estimation of Dr. Nduom, since the overthrow of the First Republic, Ghana has never recovered its golden era.
That, he said, was the result of reins of power being taken over by “clueless and power hungry people who only use official positions to seek their selfish interest.”
As a result, Dr. Nduom noted that there was so much thirst, hunger and disrespect for human lives.
“There is no truth, so much backwardness, lack of respect and trust. All that government people know is to engage in showcasing inferior projects at the extent of human lives,” Dr. Nduom averred.
He bemoaned the situation where it has become an electioneering trickery often on election years for sitting governments to go out inaugurating projects to woo voters.
He indicated that infrastructure should lead to development, adding that if that is not the case, “then what have we achieved?”
“What is the use of saying we have gold, bauxite, diamond and other mineral resources and say we are a mineral producing country when such deposits don’t benefit us,?” Dr. Nduom queried.
He continued: “Go to Johannesburg in South Africa. That city was built on the foundation of gold and compare to our own Obuasi which also has large gold deposit. With the state of Obuasi, can we say we have gold deposit at Obuasi?”
He also cried how Ghana’s oil deposit has been sold away to foreigners.
“Go to Jomoro, after four years of oil drill have lives improved? Nothing has changed. The state of poverty has rather increased after the oil find,” Dr. Nduom asserted.
He was not particularly enthused about the government’s decision to revive the Komenda Sugar Factory in the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abrem district of the Central region.
For instance, the PPP stalwart recounted: “Earlier in the 60s you saw sugar cane all over the place at the same place that government says it’s going to put up the Sugar Factory. If government is reviving the Sugar Factory, where is the sugar cane? Clearly, somebody will import the raw material, so where is the added value?”
According to him, the person who would be importing the sugar cane may be a foreigner who will make money at the expense of indigenous Ghanaians and invariably go to improve the economy of countries of these foreigners.
It is through same lack of leadership direction that in the view of Dr. Nduom, the country’s small-scale businesses have been taken over by mainly the Chinese.
According to him, if the country’s mineral resources would not benefit Ghanaians then it should be made to remain under the earth.
The occasion was also used to introduce the party’s parliamentary candidates for the Cape Coast North, Cape Coast South, KEEA and Gomoa Central.
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