CPP calls for long-term national development plan

Accra, July 1, GNA - The Convention People's Party (CPP) on Friday urged the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) to collaborate with stakeholders in Ghana's governance system to develop a long-term national development plan.

This party said would facilitate the attainment of the status of a first world country within a generation.

This was contained in a statement signed by Mr Ladi Nylander, Chairman and leader, CPP, to mark the 51st anniversary of attainment of republican status.

The statement said since the overthrow of the CPP administration in 1966, no administration had developed and implemented the required blue print for managing the overall development of the country.

It said this was an indication that successive governments had not sufficiently addressed their minds to the all important strategic national vision shared and owned by all for national transformation.

"On this day of reflection, we call on Ghanaians to demand something that prior to 1966, the CPP-led government had envisioned.

"Ghana had developed a blueprint for the future progress and development as a nation.

It was 91=85a programme of social and economic development based on the use of science and technology to revolutionalise our agriculture and industry.'"

The statement said the party held a promise of a brighter future based on prosperity for all Ghanaians, a success story that was in part realised until it was abruptly truncated.

"Today majority of Ghanaians remain in need of the basic necessities= of life after 51 years of becoming a republic. Since our basic needs cannot be met with mere slogans and adhoc measures, we call on all who believe in Ghana to share in the CPP proposed vision."

This is 93=85to establish in Ghana a strong and progressive society in which no one will have any anxiety about the basic means of life, about work, food and shelter; where poverty and illiteracy no longer exist and disease is brought under control; and where our educational facilities provide all the children with the best possibilities for the development of their potentialities".

The statement said this vision inspired the CPP Cabinet, exactly 51 years ago in the First Republic, to work with a sense of urgency.

It said this must still provide Ghanaians with enough motivation to move our country through a path that is very different from what we have been ffered so far in the Fourth Republic.

"We invite Ghana to buy into our economic transformation strategy of =91bringing the economy back home', the CPP's unique economic policy that will mobilise and involve from the village, town, municipality and all corners of our country that we are capable of transforming this country for the benefit of all."

The CPP asked the NDPC, the constitutional body responsible for Ghana's development plans, to tell the people of Ghana 93where they envision we will be, by way of socio-economic development within a generation (in the next two decades) and what we can all do to help attain that vision".