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The leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) pledged to establish a "Heroes Fund" for the party to cater for the needs of their members and supporters.
The fund was to take care of NDC loyalists who encounter misfortunes or become incapacitated while working for the party.
It was launched in 2011 and registered as a non-governmental organization to be governed by a seven member board of trustees.
Eight years down the line, it has become necessary for a probe into the functionality of the Heroes Fund by the NDC.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with host Nana Yaw Kesseh on Peace FM's "Kokrokoo" on Thursday, aspiring Presidential candidate for the NDC, Ekwow Spio Garbrah lambasted the leadership of the party saying they have collapsed the initiative.
The initiative perceived be a good one, according to Spio Garbrah, has hit the rocks due to "bad management".
" . . the fund is now a white elephant, its a mirage...it has not worked. It has collapsed because of bad management as usual. It does not exist. We created it but it didn’t work," he added.
In light of this, the NDC Presidential Hopeful noted that he would set up a "Welfare Fund" to replace the "Heroes Fund" when voted by the delegates to lead the party to victory, come 2020.
The welfare fund, he expounded, will be aimed at "supporting and providing health, economic, social and other benefits to the underprivileged" members and supporters of the NDC to "cushion" them in their life journey.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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IF THE ALLIGATOR HAS NO PITY OVER ITS OWN EGGS, THEN WHAT WILL BE THE FRESH OF A FROG TO IT. IF GHANAIANS MAKE THE SILLLY MISTAKE TO BRING THESE CRIMINALS TO POWER, THEY WILL HAVE THEMSELVES TO BLAME.
Nothing works under the corrupt and incompetent NDC.... your small party fund too you cannot manage.... We cannot trust the nation's resources in your incompetent hands... God forbid you guys coming again.
SIMPLE FUND FOR YOUR HEROES, NDC COULD NOT MAMAGE MEANWHILE MENZGOLD WAS RIGHT UNDER THEIR NOSE, NDC COULD BOUGHT SOME GOLD COLLECTIBLE WITH THE FUND. COME TO THINK OF IT, IS SPIO SAYING THE FUND IS COLLAPSED DUE MISMANAGEMENT?, AND STILL NDC WITH SAME ATTITUDE AND MEMEBERS WANT TO GOVERN GHANA AGAIN, MMMHMMMMM, MBAANO. NOT NOW WHEN THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER. POSSIBLY 2040, WITH CURRENT CROPS LEADERS AND ASPIRING LEADERS NO WAY WOULD GHANAIANS DO THAT MISTAKE. THEY FORGOT HOW HARD IT WAS FOR BEFORE NDC COULD WIN 2009, ELECTIONS AND THEY ARE TALKNG ABOUT 2020,LET SEE
Blame the incompetent one for the collapse. Simple fund you could not manage. No wonder they could not manage the economy of the nation.
Whether "Heroes Fund" or "Welfare Fund", it will not work. Will they employ NPP, PPP, CPP or which party members to administer it for them? If it is to be run by the same NDC, which is systemically, chronically and endemically hit by incurable corruption, incompetence, selfishness, Greedy bastarreeds and babies with sharp teeth, then forget!
It was not a fund. It was simply an avenue for siphoning taxpayer money into private pockets. How can you have a fund that has no source of income or revenue? Now you are out of power, the fund has collapsed. Tells you what the NDC was doing with our monies.