NPP Has Lost The Moral Authority To Govern - CPP

The NPP has lost the moral authority to govern our nation says the Convention People?s Party (CPP).

In an interview on HOT FM Radio?s Hot Breakfast Show, Mr Nii Armah Akomfrah, Chairman of CPP UK & Ireland, said ?The NPP has lost the moral authority to govern our country and come 2008 they will also lose political authority when the voters of Ghana kick them out?, It has become a scandal a day with the NPP, Mr Akomfrah said.

Asked by host Mr. Jones Lartey what the CPP?s plan was, Mr. Akomfrah said ?Clearly our plan is to dislodge the incumbent government, a government that has failed Ghana on all fronts?.

A separate question on what the CPP would do differently, received the following answer from the CPP Branch Chairman ? ? There is a clear difference between us and the NPP and NDC, they believe in leaving Ghana?s development to chance, a path they have followed for 25 years and to failure, people are now calling for an alternative, that alternative is being offered by the CPP, because we do not believe in leaving Ghana?s development to chance, we do not believe in leaving 500,000 of our citizens each year without hope, we will certainly do all that is necessary to ensure that they have a future, we will not wait for the Chinese, Malaysians or anyone else to come and build a future for Ghanaians?.

Hot FM?s host posed several other questions including asking the CPP Chairman?s view on a Minister of Education?s earlier admittance that 140,000 children drop out of education at the JSS/JHS level ? Mr. Akomfrah commented that the figure was much higher and nearer 200,000 with a similar figure dropping out at SSS/SHS level, whilst the government watches from the sidelines refusing on dogmatic grounds to do anything to help what is a sizeable number of Ghanaian youth. He said that this was a shameful waste of Ghana?s human resource and cannot be allowed to continue, and would be unacceptable in any other country.

We wish to add further to what our Chairman said on Radio namely that ? the unending canker of arrogant corruption under the NPP government must stop. No government can fail to put systems in place to check the systematic looting of state coffers, fail to punish the culprits responsible even when identified, and expect continued goodwill and moral support from the people.

Ghanaians must now wake up to the challenge and stop this cancer in our politics.

The only way to end this is to keep teaching politicians a lesson. The message should be clear to all politicians ? ?You fail us you are out?, the message will get through to the politicians eventually.