Come Out With Alternative Dev't Policy For Zongos - ZOMOC To NDC
A group calling itself Zongo Movement for Change (ZOMOC), has asked the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to stop pooh-poohing the Zongo Development Fund of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Instead the group says the NDC should come out with their own alternative development policy for the Zongo communities.
A statement issued by the group on Tuesday indicated: “The NDC has been hit and unsettled by the massive support Zongo communities throughout the country have accorded the NPP throughout the community tours of Dr Mahamudu Bawumia. Every sincere political party seeking the mandate of its people to govern must not do so with propaganda and empty rhetorics. It must do so sincerely with a bold, achievable policy such as the NPP has done with the ZDF”.
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The Zongo Movement for Change (ZOMOC) is embarrassed by desperate attempts by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to ridicule the progressive Zongo Development Fund (ZDF) - a development policy aimed at bridging the development gap in Zongo communities, recently announced by Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on behalf of Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo, the NPP Presidential Candidate for the 2016 General Elections.
We can understand the NDC's panic reaction to this well-laid out policy by Nana Akuffo-Addo for two simple reasons:
1. The NDC's neglect and constant deceit of Zongo communities.
2. The overwhelming acceptance of the NPP's ZDF by Zongo communities since it was announce.
The NDC has been hit and unsettled by the massive support Zongo communities throughout the country have accorded the NPP throughout the community tours of Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
Every sincere political party seeking the mandate of its people to govern must not do so with propaganda and empty rhetorics. It must do so sincerely with a bold, achievable policy such as the NPP has done with the ZDF.
As serious as the NPP is, the ZDF policy has become its working document for seeking the mandate of Zongo communities in the 2016 Presidential and Parliamentary elections.
Campaigning for elections is a serious business which should not be reduced to child's play, propaganda and deceit. It should be about policies and alternative policies to help electorates decide.
ZOMOC, therefore, wishes to urge the NDC to stop the ludicrous theatrics of running down the NPP's ZDF policy without any alternative policy for Zongo communities
For a party that has ruled Ghana for the past seven years and nearly half of Ghana's independence without any tangible policy to develop Zongo communities, the NDC should have been the first to commend the NPP for such a positive step of having a major policy focusing on Zongo communities.
We are not surprised the NDC has taken this route of condemning a policy by the NDC as being impossible to implement. It is their stock-in-trade and the following historical records prove us right:
1. The NPP came up with the progressive Northern Development Fund policy ahead of the 2008 Elections and it is public knowledge how the NDC condemned the policy but later stole the idea and changed the name into SADA, which turned out to be a conduit for ripping off Ghanaians.
2. The NPP came up with the free SHS policy and we know how the NDC condemned it but later stole the idea and messed it up with a ridiculous 38 cedis subsidy for day SHS students.
Developing Zongo communities is not about rhetorics, as we have stated earlier. Neither is it about distributing sugar and rice during Eid celebrations. It is therefore, a great insult for any political party to imagine that distributing freebies to our communities during Eid and prior to elections is akin to development.
Zongo communities have been shortchanged for far too long in spite of the abundance of talent, incredible human resource and hardworking people. Development has stagnated in the Zongos in terms of infrastructural and human resource development.
ZOMOC wishes to reiterate its support for the Zongo Development Fund because it is our belief that the realisation of such a vision will go in a long way to help in the development of Zongos which have been politically exploited by some political parties who have enjoyed immense support in the Zongos without any corresponding, tangible development to show
ZOMOC maintains that the Zongo Development Fund proposal is a bold statement of intent by the NPP and Nana Akuffo-Addo. We believe that with the right legal framework to back it if they win the elections, it will be an effective way of significantly ameliorating the stagnant development in Zongos and help transform the lives of the Zongo populace.
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