We Will Guard Democracy With Our Blood – Ludwig

The National Youth Organizer of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Ludwig Hlodze has stated that the youth of the party will not sit down and allow the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and its flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo Addo to ruin the peace and stability the country is enjoying.

He said the NDC youth would jealously guard Ghana’s fledgling democracy, if it means using their blood to ensure sustainable peace and development in the country. The NDC Youth Organizer noted that the party would continue to remain committed to ensuring peace, free and transparency elections, and would not allow any group or individual to disrupt the upcoming elections.

“We the NDC would continue to guard and protect the democratic dispensation because we are the pacesetters of true democracy in Ghana and would continue to uphold the tenets of freedom and justice in the country, “if it means sacrificing with our blood,”. The NDC National Youth Organizer, who was speaking at a Special Conference organized by the KNUST branch of the Tertiary Education Institutional Network of the NDC (TEIN), under the theme – ‘Victory 2012, the Role of TEIN’, said the NPP was beating unnecessary war drums ahead of the 2012 elections, which he argued, were signs of a desperate political party which was anticipating defeat. He noted that he finds it extremely difficult to understand why the NPP, in spite of all the difficulties they put this country through, would want Ghanaians to vote them back to power.

“Do they think Ghanaians have forgotten so soon about how they ripped this country and stole all properties for their personal gains, do they think Ghanaians want a government that would use state resources to build hotels for their families and put up expensive mansions just for their comfort,” he queried.

Ludwig further observed that it was not for nothing that the NPP were removed from power before the actual oil exploration began, stressing that the party would have shared the oil revenue amongst themselves, leaving the poor Ghanaian to continue to wallow in pain and agony. He, therefore, noted that the comeback of the NDC was a timely and divine intervention, asserting that with Prof. John Evans Atta Mills at the helm of affairs of this country, citizens can be assured that every penny realized from the oil exploration would be ploughed back into the development of this country.

Ludwig said as students of this country, It was very important for them to appreciate the role successive NDC regimes had played in the development of education in the country, citing the establishments of Polytechnics across the ten regions in the country, the setting up of the University of Development Studies and the University of Education, Winneba, alongside other notable achievements in the educational sector.“My blood always boils when I hear Nana Addo promising to ensure free SHS education in the country, what did he do when he served for eight years under the NPP, how many senior high schools did they put up, all they could do was to change the name from senior secondary school to senior high school, and this is the party which wants to come back and rule this country,” he noted.

He said the NPP flagbearer had failed to give practical solutions to the development needs of this country, except to move from one country to another talking big English “as if that is what Ghanaians are interested in.”

Ludwig noted further that the hallmark of the NDC as the government which is committed to investing in people was unquestionable, asserting that it is the only party which has given and continues to give practical solutions to the educational needs of this country by choosing to establish two additional universities to cater for the shortfalls in the access to public tertiary education.

He also indicated that the NDC is the only party that gives opportunity to the youth to exhibit their potentials, stressing that about 48% of the appointees serving under the current administration of the NDC are made up of the youth.