Much food for thought, for the CPP and potentially a 3rd party that can truly give the NDC and the NPP a run for their money.
What Yaw Nkunim is telling us is, none of that can start at t ... read full comment
Interesting take and analysis!
Much food for thought, for the CPP and potentially a 3rd party that can truly give the NDC and the NPP a run for their money.
What Yaw Nkunim is telling us is, none of that can start at the top, or from Accra!
Kojo T 8 years ago
Cpp has to keep chipping away,We see the politics of UK changing so in Ghana it will change
Cpp has to keep chipping away,We see the politics of UK changing so in Ghana it will change
Ekow; Cape Coast 8 years ago
Ashanti is a monarch and the King is supreme. Ashanti doesn't need CPP which harbours dictatorship and one-party state. Ashanti doesn't need NDC that harbours stealing and murder
Ashanti is a monarch and the King is supreme. Ashanti doesn't need CPP which harbours dictatorship and one-party state. Ashanti doesn't need NDC that harbours stealing and murder
Joe/TX 8 years ago
When are you going to stop deceiving yourselves with this name CPP? If you forget about the name and the past dictatorship glory, you can one day lead Ghana once more. You have the intellectuals and the resources, but you hav ... read full comment
When are you going to stop deceiving yourselves with this name CPP? If you forget about the name and the past dictatorship glory, you can one day lead Ghana once more. You have the intellectuals and the resources, but you have forgotten we are in technological era. If you cannot cone together as one party, how can you rule. Bring Paa Kwesi Ndom, Abu Sakara and Monar together as front runners and see what will happen in 2016. CHANGE the name now or forget about elections.
Neither NDC Nor NPP 8 years ago
Yaw Nkunim at it again: from blowing his own horn to lunatically equating NDC with CPP and NDC's shamefully destructive politics with Nkrumahism.
NDC has nothing in common with CPP. NDC is the party that has caused the mos ... read full comment
Yaw Nkunim at it again: from blowing his own horn to lunatically equating NDC with CPP and NDC's shamefully destructive politics with Nkrumahism.
NDC has nothing in common with CPP. NDC is the party that has caused the most destruction to the industrial infrastructure that CPP painstakingly put in place during the first republic to launch our economic independence and well-being. NDC is the party that always runs to the IMF and subjects Ghanaians to the harsh toxic prescriptions of that evil institution. Rawlings, PNDC and NDC has nothing to do with CPP or Nkrumahism, including the honour they all bestow on Kotoka, the vile mercenary who led the overthrow of Nkrumah.
G. K. Berko 8 years ago
If we could just set that deep-seated animus aside for once, Ghana would be much better placed to recover fast.
UP hating CPP to the bone, CPP hating the NDC to the marrow, and NDC hating the UP-incarnate, NPP, to the ner ... read full comment
If we could just set that deep-seated animus aside for once, Ghana would be much better placed to recover fast.
UP hating CPP to the bone, CPP hating the NDC to the marrow, and NDC hating the UP-incarnate, NPP, to the nervous system, how could Ghana ever be able to build real constructive consensus that all progressive Nations have done and their subsequent Administrations built upon?
I bet if we could look very closely, we might find that some of these opposing Politicians might not like to even live in the same Government Bungalow that their counterparts in a previous Administration had lived in and evacuated upon a change in Government, just because of how hateful they are to each other.
We cannot forever bear those grudges and allow them to destroy any bridge that could allow sharing of ideas for rebuilding the Nation, and expect the Nation to soar.
Such hatred has been behind the incumbent Administrations' irrational discontinuation of various projects initiated by previous Regimes. No, the incumbents do not want to share any glory of achievements with the past Regimes of different Party roots.
Attitudes like that have cost Ghana millions of Dollars in wasted resources, and denied the people crucial infrastructure necessary for both their Social and Economic advancement. It is unpardonable! I would classify that kind of hatred among our Political bases or Parties as one intractable relic of primitivity that keeps holding us back from progress.
In fact, the massive Corruption infesting our System could be reasonably linked to the same cause. The massive theft of State Funds has become a tool of their destructive competition.
It is only that the CPP, in particular, has not gotten the opportunity to take its turn in recent History to loot the State. Hence, the Party now claims to be the only one that would succeed in curbing the canker. That may be true. But in the face of the continued animosity at that high level, I seriously doubt it.
The Competition in corruption is driven by the notions that:
1). folks should not allow only the members of any one Party to enjoy all the fruits of the Nation; and
2). the Parties must create 'deep pockets' who could support its campaigns to win over their opponents at Elections.
The only glow of hope I see in this setting of our National Politics is what a friend of mine suggested: that CPP members seem to be the most pliable-- more easily capable of moving across Party-boundaries to join others to serve the Nation than all others. He mentioned that it is three-times harder for a NPP (UP-stock) member to cross over to join CPP today than for a CPP member to go the other way. He noted it is twice as hard for a NDC member, who was not a former CPP member, to cross over to join the CPP as it is for a CPP member to join the NDC. He, however, noted that in all the Parties, there are certain die-hard nutty-heads who would never in a million years cross over to join one Party or another. Such are those CPP elements who consider Rawlings as having inexcusably crushed their dreams of capturing the limelight again under Dr. Liman's PNP, the only viable CPP incarnation that made it far enough in our Political races. At such extreme end, he said, are, also, those NPP (UP) members who claim Nkrumah harassed or taunted or brutalized their family members.
My friend noted that for any significant re-alignment of our Political elites to begin a lasting fluidity among them to happen, Ghanaians would have to drop the long-standing animus among their Parties.
Long Live Ghana!!!
G. K. Berko 8 years ago
Whatever the CPP's intent for the future, it must unequivocally strike out of its defining principles any desire for an One-Party Nation.
The Socialist goals of the Party may not even be as repulsive to the younger genera ... read full comment
Whatever the CPP's intent for the future, it must unequivocally strike out of its defining principles any desire for an One-Party Nation.
The Socialist goals of the Party may not even be as repulsive to the younger generation as any contrivance to make Ghana an One-Party Nation. It is the One-Party notion that terrifies many Ghanaians as being the first echelon to reaching a totalitarian or Communist Nation.
We have long past that point where that debate was even relevant. Ghanaians would always reject a dictatorship, an One-Party State and Communist State.
That said, there is no rule that automatically pulls a Nation into any of those States by adopting some reasonable Social programs to both help the poor build a solid foundation to compete with all others, and ensure that all Ghanaians live above a certain acceptable level of comfort and have unfettered access to individual achievements.
This is because any honest appraisal of Social Programs in Scandinavia has proven the predominant system of governance there could really lift the lives of all the people in any Country, without smothering the Capitalist tendencies of the democratic undergirding of their Nations.
I have, personally, viewed with favor a more pragmatic adoption of certain Socialist programs that could only ensure eradication of poverty and ignorance among the Population and help all to have a solid foundation to compete with the rest in a viable Capitalist environment.
During the Cold War, we were often warned such a mix would never work and that we either had to declare being an unbridled Communist Nation or an ultra-Capitalist Nation. In fact, inclination for any Country to adopt some Socialist program to aid the very poorest alarmed the West which then would unleash their mechanisms to quickly undermine any such programs by the countries that adopted them.
However, the Scandinavians were able to sustain their model with their Socialist Programs. And so did Singapore amidst its spectacular Capitalist feats. Now, we even see China perform beyond expectations of the West as she still clings on to her Communist Political ideology.
What that should tell us is that we could design our own System that borrow from the Scandinavians, Singaporeans and Europeans to build a viable, successful Capitalist system immune to the ills of the extremities in the West that saw the collapse of the USA and other European Economies.
We should not accept the paradigm that a Capitalist System seizes to function with any introduction of some Welfare or Socialist program to help the most deprived, or provide some basic decent living standards from which all could advance with our individual talents.
In fact, the current state of American Capitalism has come under huge scrutiny and criticism for its drift into an Oligarchy. That is because of the erosion of the fundamental pillars and cables that strongly support a firm canvass for all to spring from, as the top 1% of the Society keep growing in wealth at the expense of all others who are increasingly slipping.
The Middle-Class is fast disappearing in the USA, hindering the current recovery from the last recession to pick up any significant steam.
Ghana must therefore revise its Economic System to accommodate more local content integration with the vast foreign investments envisaged, and allow rapid acceleration of preparing the young for greater proficiency and eligibility to take over from the aging few technocrats. Hence, the need for a complete revamp of our Educational System to take after that of Singapore's, and making top quality Education from Pre-School to the University a National Priority and responsibility.
Meanwhile, our Entrepreneurial acumen would be better enhanced with the higher and better focused Education. The current spate of Corruption would be almost eradicated with the proper understanding of the real harm that evil does to us all and the Nation, if Education in Ghana is tuned towards collective responsibility to serve the Nation well. Our sense of patriotism must be more strongly woven into our Education without resorting to the superfluous Nationalism that breeds radicalism.
Our Politics must be taught to reflect the mutual dignity of all, no matter where we come from or what Language we speak or what Political Party we have deep familial ties to.
And above all, and most importantly, our Constitution must be amendable to guide us retune our System, from time to time, to allow the level of Socialist interventions be adjusted according as the level of the average Ghanaian's economic stature dictates.
We could assume, say, more State assistance for, say, Medical Care, up to 100% for those making up to the poverty line, say, 80% for those making up to 60% over the poverty line, and 25% for others making, say, 300% plus above the poverty line. These are just arbitrary figures but indicate the type of Social intervention I would like to see, should we not seek full the utopian goals of free Medical Care for all, and free Education up to the University for all who wish to go that far.
I strongly believe that the higher Education people have the more they tend to wish to be self-resourceful, and hate to be cheated by others. And given that Health is one most expensive draw on our incomes, if that burden is taken over, significantly, from our shoulders, most families would have all it takes to live comfortably and concentrate on pursuing individual enterprises that would be a source of revenue to the State for funding the Social programs.
Evidence abound that the trickle-down Reaganomics would not help Ghana in any way out of her doldrums. In fact, it is that kind of perverted Capitalism that has ruined the USA Economy in the last few decades.
A serious highly intellectual study of the Scandinavian and Singaporean Social programs alongside their Economies' Capitalist orientation, would give a rich pool of ideas to choose from to build our own that best suits our special circumstances.
We should not be shy to embrace the so-called leftist ideas even as we employ the Conservative Capitalist principles of growing our Economy and allowing individual freedoms to flourish.
Many among the top USA elite Economists, like Richard Wolff, have begun to look more closely at Cooperatives, for example, not as we knew them in the Communist settings, but more like what Nkrumah began in the 60s, and learnt from the Kibutz structures of Israel, as viable entities of Capitalism. Examples have been cited with Spain and Italy, where highly successful Cooperative entities and Social programs have been drawn for special study by the Capitalist Corporate giants like the Microsoft for the formers' near insulation and fastest growth from the last recession.
Our Politicians and Intellectuals must show the will to set a National Socio-Economic agenda that no Political Party could unilaterally choose to deviate from when in Power. And these leaders could dwell mostly on the Scandinavian, Singaporean, Middle-Eastern and European Models to construct such an agenda.
If that is what the CPP is aiming for then they would be ahead of all the Parties in leading Ghana to a real sustainable success.
Interesting take and analysis!
Much food for thought, for the CPP and potentially a 3rd party that can truly give the NDC and the NPP a run for their money.
What Yaw Nkunim is telling us is, none of that can start at t ...
read full comment
Cpp has to keep chipping away,We see the politics of UK changing so in Ghana it will change
Ashanti is a monarch and the King is supreme. Ashanti doesn't need CPP which harbours dictatorship and one-party state. Ashanti doesn't need NDC that harbours stealing and murder
When are you going to stop deceiving yourselves with this name CPP? If you forget about the name and the past dictatorship glory, you can one day lead Ghana once more. You have the intellectuals and the resources, but you hav ...
read full comment
Yaw Nkunim at it again: from blowing his own horn to lunatically equating NDC with CPP and NDC's shamefully destructive politics with Nkrumahism.
NDC has nothing in common with CPP. NDC is the party that has caused the mos ...
read full comment
If we could just set that deep-seated animus aside for once, Ghana would be much better placed to recover fast.
UP hating CPP to the bone, CPP hating the NDC to the marrow, and NDC hating the UP-incarnate, NPP, to the ner ...
read full comment
Whatever the CPP's intent for the future, it must unequivocally strike out of its defining principles any desire for an One-Party Nation.
The Socialist goals of the Party may not even be as repulsive to the younger genera ...
read full comment