The flag bearer of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Mr Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, has criticised the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP’s) one district, one factory policy, describing it as bogus and fraudulent.
“When the NPP comes to tell you about one district, one factory, they are not telling you the truth, “Mr Greenstreet told an excited crowd at Koforidua Magazine on the third day of his tour of the Eastern Region last Wednesday.
The presidential candidate, who is seeking a comeback for his party which has been out of power since 1966, urged the electorate to ignore the largest opposition party’s latest promise because they had eight years in the past to implement the policy but failed to do so.
“They could not do it when they were in the golden age of business, and they could not do it during their President (Kufuor’s) special initiatives’’.
The NPP's audacious plan to establish a factory in each district in Ghana has been bashed by its political opponent with some describing it as wishful thinking.
But the NPP insists that the promise is redeemable and would not just lead to value addition to the country's natural resources but will create more jobs as well.
Coming on the back of Mr Greenstreet’s criticisms of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for its attempt to hijack Nkrumah’s name for its campaign, Mr Greenstreet said the CPP was the only viable alternative to the NDC.
Advanced tool centres
He said the CPP had plans to turn the various magazines which represented the country’s innovation hub into advanced tool centres as the foundation of the country’s industrialisation.
The centres, he stated, would help the country develop precision tools for use in road construction, auto industry and hospitals.
“We are going to do that with massive investment and training so that you will be able to do it with computer-aided manufacturing and numerical control. When you are able to make these machines through training and investment we would give all magazines, then all the revenue leaving our country will stay in Ghana and we would have a greater revenue,” he told the cheering mechanics and spare parts dealers.’’
He said the country had the expertise to manage the Akosombo Dam built by Nkrumah, as well as other factories in the country that processed oil from coconut and groundnut and rallied Ghanaians to support the CPP to lead the country’s industrialisation process.
Accompanied by the First National Vice Chairperson of the party, Hajia Hamdatu Ibrahim; the National Organiser, Mr Emmanuel Ogbordjor, the National Campaign Coordinator, Mr Rashid Alao, and a host of regional and constituency executives, Mr Greenstreet also introduced Ms Naomi Osei Sekyere to the electorate as the parliamentary candidate for the New Juabeng South Constituency before embarking on a float through some principal streets of Koforidua.
Galamsey
The next port of call was Ayensuano where Mr Greenstreet pledged the party’s commitment to tackling galamsey in a more effective manner.
With complaints of water challenges on the lips of the electorate, Mr Greenstreet said his administration would construct more boreholes to reduce the locality’s dependence of polluted water from galamsey activities.
To eliminate galamsey, he said a CPP government would empower the district assemblies and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reclaim and restore all the degraded lands in the area.
Buoyed up by the energy and enthusiasm of the gathering, he said the CPP would provide training and equipment to stop the destruction of the environment.
Here, Mr Kingsley Wise Mensah, one of the 14 physically challenged people the CPP is anchoring its hope in to cause an upset in the upcoming election described the party as one that had the aspirations and the needs of the citizenry at heart.
The float continued through the Lower West Akyem District and ended at Akwetia where the flag bearer addressed a mini rally to introduce Ms Joyce Sakyi as the parliamentary candidate.
Here, Mr Greenstreet pledged to revive the Great Consolidated Diamond Company which has been on its knees for some years to create job opportunities for the people.
Hajia Hamdatu also appealed to the electorate to vote for the CPP to redeem the country from years of mismanagement by the NDC and the NPP.
Meanwhile, the CPP campaign train, which has been to 17 constituencies in the region, is expected to shift gear to the Western Region.
Source: Daily Graphic
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CPP died in 1966 through their own wickedness. I believe what Samia said about who is funding Greenstreet. CPP will have zero seats in parliament.
Greenstreet mind your words. Attack NDC not NPP. ONE DISTRICT OE FACTORY PROMISE IS FEASIBLE
This rub*ish was published by the Daily Graphic in fact so many people have questions to answer in a little while. They've never published anything Nana proposes but God's willing the man will be the next president to shame all these enemies of our country.My heart bleeds when I see these people at Graphic being paid with money from our resources. There should be a shake up after regime change. We didn't experience such nons*nse from those state owned media even in Rawlings time but God's time is the best. Every Ghanaian including our chiefs and opinion leaders wish to see the back of these career thi*ves and incompetent people in government. So Daily Graphic moy3,y3,y3 aa mahama b3ko,moy3 y3,y3 aa Nana b3ba.
Look at him.......Ivor kobina Greenstreet if it is bogus come out with your own . Instead of you to concentrate on your campaign message you are rather digressing # CheappoliticsCPP# Apuuuuuuuuuuuuu you are rather killing the spirit of Nkrumahism.
Guys you remember Samia Nkrumah said Ivory sponsored by Ndc.
You too promise one street one green light and stop condemning NDC and NPP oh.
***barred word*** Greenstreet talking rubbish. What would you have for Ghanaian youth? ***barred word*** bastard. Someone must lift him up from the wheelchair to use is brain well.
IT IS RATHER UNFORTUNATE THAT INSULTS ARE BARRED FROM THIS NETWORK, GREENSTREET IS IT NPP THAT IS IN POWER OR NDC, AND WHEN NPP WAS IN POWER WAS IT NANA ADDO WHO WAS THE PRESIDENT OR IT WAS EX-PRES KUFFOUR?, DO REMEMBER WHAT NPP CAMPAIGNED ON AT THAT TIME?, YOU ARE CRIPPLE NO WONDER BECAUSE NDC PROVIDES YOU WITH SOME OF THE LEAP MONIES. CHEAP MAN
Look who is talking you could not even pay for your own presidential fees which is only 50,000 thousand gh. You want to mahama your pay master. You cannot even be your own man what shows that whatever you have promised you can deliver. Apuuuuuuuuu taa
The second Ayaricough; paid to attack NPP. The NDC paid for his election campain to the CPP flagbesrership. Why won't he attack NANA ADDO?