National Democratic Congress (NDC) running mate, John Dramani Mahama, on Sunday took a swipe at the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) for lacking what he described as a sense of priority.

He explained that the NPP government chose to spend over US$100 million on Presidential jets, while the navy lacked the necessary logistics to patrol the territorial waters and save the local fishermen from activities of pair trawlers.

Speaking at a mini-rally of the party at London Bridge, in Cape Coast, Mahama said NPP was practicing property owning democracy in which all state property was at the centre of every policy they implemented.

He said, “very soon they will sell Parliament House and the Castle, and after selling all the properties of Ghana, they will sell Ghanaians as well.”

He said NDC was a social democratic party that put the human being at the centre of every policy they made hence their social policies supported people when they were in power.

Mahama asked the workers in the crowd whether they had been paid as of 31st August, but they replied in the negative, and he reminded them that the NDC paid workers before 30th of every month.

He assured the fishermen that Prof. John Evans Atta Mills' government will first abolish the activities of pair trawlers and support the navy to patrol the sea.

The General Secretary of the party, Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia, reminded the chiefs and opinion leaders who are calling for peaceful elections to check the characters of all the flag-bearers before making their choice, because some have questionable characters with regards to electoral violence.

Ms. Ama Benyiwa Doe, NDC national Women's Organizer, aroused the crowd as she took them through the long list of Prof. Mills' credentials.

She urged them to discard the accusations that NDC was doing tribal politics and questioned why an Akyem Chief could mobilize people to destroy and remove the posters of Prof. Mills from his town. She appealed to them to vote for Prof. Mills to develop the region from its poverty status to a rich one.

Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, the NDC National Organizer, said NDC will form Polling Station task force to monitor the ballot to ensure free and fair elections. He advised the teaming crowd to be vigilant during the elections because it was written on the wall that Mills had, already won the election.

Lawyer Ebo Barton-Odro, Cape Coast NDC parliamentary candidate, said he will work in collaboration with Cape Coasters, irrespective of their political affiliation to develop the former colonial capital when given the nod as MP.

John Mahama and his campaign team joined a keep fit procession through the principal streets of Cape Coast, with thousands of people in a jubilant mood and singing "we are changing the government."


Source: Chronicle