New Political party to bail Ghanaians out of poverty

A NEW political party, the TRADES CONGRESS PARTY (TCP) formed by astute

technocrats who understand the multifaceted problems of the country, would be

launched in Ghana in October this year and contest in future elections to be

able to direct national development with a new political system,

Socio-Capitalism, to give Ghanaians every opportunity to create and accumulate

wealth (capital).

The vision of the new party, according to the founder, Dr. Anthony Toku, a

prolific politician trained in the United States, is to build a Socio-Capitalist

State in which Ghanaians will have every opportunity to work hard enough to

create and accumulate wealth according to ones capacity and capabilities.

Dr. Toku’s political party intends to build a Socio-Capitalist State in which

the people will be given every opportunity to create and accumulate wealth.

"Moving people from poverty to prosperity will be one of the major

pre-occupations of this new political party," the founder has emphasized.

He said the TCP will develop policies and practices that would promote this

political system and direct the country to a middle income status since TCP

cannot afford to play politics with issues that affect the lives of the people.

"It is a system that will eliminate abject poverty and any sign of

underdevelopment," Dr. Toku has said.

He noted that Ghanaians cannot afford to live in poverty and politicians cannot

play politics with issues that affect the lives of the people.

The founder of the new political party has stated its time to move the people of

Ghana from poverty to prosperity after 53 years of independence.

He has lamented that the country needs a clear cut political agenda upon which

policies can be developed to move the country forward.

Dr. Toku’s concerns stem from that the fact that no political party, since the

overthrow of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, has clearly defined the kind of country they

want to build.

Trades Congress Party (formerly Traditional Congress Party), he said, will focus

on the development and management of social factors such as corruption,

education, health, technology, transportation, housing, public institutions,

water supply, electricity supply and other social factors that must work in

concert with capital factors to engage everybody to create and accumulate

wealth.

With a total breakdown of the moral fabric of the society which needs to be

addressed, a TCP government will direct immense resources toward the development

of human resources which have been neglected resulting in inefficiency leading

to cumbersome bureaucracies in providing service to the public.

Dr. Toku has said public institutions will be strengthened by getting rid of

social ills that have impeded development and advancement. These institutions

will be staffed with highly qualified individuals with a renewed mindset and the

capacity to transform the institutions. Public officers engaged in social ills

will be considered as nation wreckers and will pay heavily for their acts.

"Under a Socio-capitalist state, politicians will become servants of the people

and not lords to be served. They will be required to eschew bribery and

corruption and other ills of the society," he said. E N D.

DR. BOATENG MAKES GHANA PROUD

…He chairs SmartProcurement World Conference in South Africa

THE SOUTH African-based Ghanaian Founder, President and CEO of PanAvest

International and the globally acclaimed Supply Chain expert, Dr. Douglas

Boateng has been selected to chair the SmartProcurement World Panel discussion

scheduled for November 16-18, 2010 in South Africa.

The theme of the discussion is "The Strategic Mandate of the Procurement

Profession".The SmartProcurement World conference is the largest functional

specific commercial convention on the continent attracting aspiring and

practicing professionals involved in the procurement and supply chain

profession.

Since its inception in 2005, SmartProcurement World conference has grown to

become a leading forum for the discerning professional looking to network with

colleagues and peers plus gain thought-leading ideas.

Panelists include some of the leading practitioners in the industry responsible

for billions of Rands and USD dollar equivalent procurement expenditure.

Sectors represented on the panel include, amongst others, banking, financial

services, logistics, chemicals, ICT, mining, public sector, agriculture, retail

and consulting.

Smartprocurement.net is Africa's leading Supply Chain online infomediary with

more than 24 000 readers in both the private and public sectors.

SmartProcurement.net has hundreds of useful articles relating to every aspect of

world class procurement (public and private sector).

This year, Dr. Boateng who is also the Founding President of the West African

Institute for Supply chain Leadership (WAISCL) in Ghana will chair and moderate

the SmartProcurement World panel discussion at the 2010 international

SmartProcurement World Conference.

In addition to being an editorial board member of Smart Procurement, Dr Boateng

is also external examiner and postgraduate and doctoral project supervisor on

supply chain management at UNISA’ SBL and President of the Institute of

Operations Management Africa.

PanAvest International, Dr. Boateng’s baby, is a niche business advisory,

education, training, coaching and mentoring company. The organization’s goal is

to assist companies to profitably extend their market reach through the

application of long term innovative, Business Development Logistics and Supply

Chain Management solutions.

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