Gov't urged to stop harassing perceived opponents

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has asked the government to take appropriate measures to halt the harassment of perceived opponents of the government by the security agencies.

Members also expressed concern about continuing unlawful arrest and detention of the party's activists and sympathisers.

In an eight-point resolution at a meeting of the Central Region Youth and Women Wings and the Tertiary Education Institution Network (TEIN) of the NDC at Cape Coast, it said such acts infringed on the constitutional rights of the people and asked the government to apologise to all victims.

The resolution called for a probe into a scandal at CEDECOM, involving a Minister of State to be in line with the government's own declaration of "Zero Tolerance for Corruption".

It also called for an immediate stop to the "Proceed-On-Leave Syndrome", which the government was using to dismiss people of different political persuasions from office.

The resolution condemned discrimination in the recruitment for jobs and disbursement of funds under the poverty reduction intervention, citing recent recruitment of the youth for the cocoa spraying exercise, undertaken by NPP constituency and regional executives.

The resolution called on the government to address the high cost of living due to the astronomical hike in the tariffs of the utility services and petroleum products to enable Ghanaians to enjoy a good standard of living.

It asked the government to make education affordable through the judicious utilisation of the Education Fund established by the NDC government through the Value Added Tax, which the NPP vehemently opposed.