Progressive People’s Party (PPP)
PPP calls on EC to delay
announcement
Source: PPP / 09.12.2012
Following the identification of serious lapses in the collation and
declaration of Presidential and Parliamentary results, the
Progressive People’s Party PPP wishes to advise the Electoral
Commission EC to delay the declaration of the final results until
they have been thoroughly validated.
For example, in the Assin South
constituency, the PPP was assigned 134 votes for both the
Presidential and Parliamentary contests. Upon a protest to recount
by the Parliamentary Candidate; a figure of 1,487 was obtained for
parliamentary contest. However, the presidential figure which
should have been 584 was left unchanged.
The PPP finds the anomalies so identified disturbing as it
indicates a real likelihood of compromising the integrity of the
entire results. We therefore call on the EC to take its time to
re-check the provisional results so far declared to guarantee the
minimum required accuracies that will guarantee the integrity of
the results.
We will also recommend the publication of numbers from the
verification machine to enable
proper cross checking with the results obtained by our polling
agents
Nii Allotey Brew-Hammond
PPP National Chairman
0244682095
Progressive People’s Party (PPP)
Nduom declares assets, campaign funds, deepens
frontiers of transparency (PPP-News)
Source: GNA/ PPP - 06.12.2012
Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, presidential candidate of the Progressive
People’s Party (PPP) for Election 2012, on Thursday advanced the
frontiers of transparency and accountability in governance,
declaring his source of campaign funds, income tax returns and
assets.
He revealed that the party had so far spent some GHc4, 168,600 on
its campaign activities, projecting that it would infuse some
additional Ghc300, 000 into the
process by the close of polls Friday.
At a press conference in Accra, where those documents were
displayed for the perusal of the media, Dr Nduom said the move was
in keeping with his personal and active commitment against
corruption, and to bring the needed reforms into the governance of
the country.
Dr. Nduom during his
campaign across the Ghana, asked all other presidential aspirants
in the December 2012 election to declare their source of campaign
funding and assets to enable Ghanaians to examine them and their
ability to fight corruption that has stifled the rapid socio-economic growth and development of the
country.
But none of those contesting the presidential slots have lived up
to the challenge.
He said: “We need to establish a moral authority for Ghana to be a good society and to attain its
desired developmental level,
“Those who wanted to control the affairs of the country should
demonstrate moral uprightness and the zeal to offer incorruptible
and accountable leadership to the people”.
Dr. Nduom said it was
unfortunate that after several weeks of making the call, other
presidential candidates had failed to take up the challenge.
“John Mahama says he is not corrupt. Nana Akufo-Addo says he is not
corrupt. I am not here to accuse anyone of being corrupt. That is
not my style and that is not the issue on the table. It is a matter
of who is willing to make a personal, active commitment against
corruption”, he said.
Dr. Nduom said the
leaders of the NPP and the NDC were hiding behind legal
smokescreens, arguing that when the law compelled them to be
transparent and accountable, they would comply.
“Sadly, they miss the point that you lead from the front. Moral
persuasion is the best teacher. Moral authority lasts a lifetime”,
he noted.
Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom regretted that declaring one’s assets before
vying for public office was a minimum practice in developed
countries, urging Ghanaians to demand that politicians meet that
standard before they are giving the
mandate to govern.
He said making that public
declaration made him the only trusted personality among the
candidates, and called on Ghanaians to jettison both parties (NDC
and NPP) and vote massively for the PPP to witness practical
leadership that cannot be perverted, bribed, or corrupted.
“Transparency, accountability, the truth and personal discipline
are needed if we want to move Ghana into a higher level of
performance and give our people the opportunity to enjoy a world
class standard of living in our life
time”, said Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom.
He said Ghanaians had a real choice to make between “pretenders and
doers”, and that “while the pretenders talk”, he will take strong
and bold steps and do what will make the nation great and strong by
ridding the country of corruption.
Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom said: “I am human, but on the platform of
incorruptible leadership, I stand alone as the only one in the
presidential race this year willing to make a great personal
sacrifice. Politics in Ghana will never be the same. The PPP is
setting a new high standard for others to follow”.
Progressive People’s Party (PPP)
NPP’s free SHS is an
elitist policy - Mrs. Nduom
Radio XYZ Online / 08.11.2012
Mrs. Yvonne Nduom, wife of the flagbearer of the Progressive People’s Party
(PPP) says there is great difference
between her husband’s promise of free education and that of the
main opposition New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) free SHS.
Mrs. Yvonne Nduom says the PPP had already fine-tuned its education
policy before the NPP came out with the modalities to achieve that
goal.
Speaking to Emefa Apawu, host of Breakfast XYZ on Radio XYZ 93.1FM,
Mrs. Nduom said Dr.
Papa Kwesi Nduom and the PPP officials came out with the policy on
making education free as far back as January before the NPP started
trumpeting their “free senior high school” in the middle of the
year.
In a bid to draw the line between the two similar promises, Mrs.
Nduom said while the
PPP says “free, compulsory, continuous, quality education from
Kindergarten, [the NPP] says free secondary education.”
She said the NPP promise is “an elitist policy because those
parents who [benefit] have money to give their children for extra
tutorials; they hire teachers [and] they send them to nice schools
here. They are the ones who get access to these premier secondary
schools and they are the ones who are going to benefit from the
free education.”
Explaining the rationale behind the PPP’s promise, the management
consultant said: “We all know that for ten years that we came out
with this new educational system, 1.5 million children have failed
the BECE. Those people they are not
Ghanaians.
They won’t get free SHS. We know that if you were to take one
thousand students from class one, by the time they get to class
six, 250 of them would have dropped out for various reasons.”
She explained that at the JHS level, another 60 percent of those
who qualified to write the BECE will not make it to the SHS level,
leaving just a handful of them going higher.
According to her, Dr Nduom’s policy intends to target the majority
of students who otherwise may not make it through the educational
ladder by expanding access and equity to accommodate both families
who can afford and those who cannot.
“My husband says we will abolish BECE and also we know that the
brain formation in children happens from two to seven, so he says
free kindergarten. That is where you can mold their brains,” Mrs
Nduom added.
She said free compulsory kindergarten and basic education will
ensure that children go through the system and acquire at least 13
years of continuous free education as opposed to the current nine
years.
Asked whether the country has the resources to bring such a vision
to fruition, Mrs Nduom said “it can be done. It is the will. You
have to decide; what is your priority?” She argued that countries
such as India and Malaysia made it their priority to invest in
their human resource through education that is how come they have
developed that fast.
She said investors are not coming into the country in droves
because the pool of human resource is non-existent and the
government must create that base to attract more investors who are
unwilling to come and for fear that they will spend more in
training people.
Progressive People’s Party (PPP)
PPP mourns victims &
families of Melcom building disaster
Source: PPP Communications Directorate / 08.11.2012
The Progressive People's Party (PPP) is shocked to hear that the
Achimota branch of multi-storey departmental store owned by MELCOM has collapsed
with scores of people still trapped beneath the debris.
( Link: Latest Ghanaweb-News - 7./8.11.2012 - Accra - Melcom Mall
Disaster *new
window)
Our prayers go to the many workers and other attendants who were in
the store when the building collapsed. Our prayers also go for
those who suffered varied degrees of
injuries and others yet to recover from the shock of the collapsed
building.
Our heartfelt condolences and deepest sympathies again go to the
families of those who lost their lives and others still covered by
the piled MELCOM rubble.
Although rescue efforts started just
a while after the disaster, the slow pace of the rescue mission
meant many people who, otherwise, would have been saved, risked a
further danger to their lives being under the heaped debris which
as at the second day stood close to a two-storey building.
With the official death recorded rising on the second day of the
disaster, we fear many more deaths will be recorded with the slow
pace of the rescue efforts.
Others who were pulled alive, we believe, are likely to live with
possible or perpetual trauma and physical deformities.
The latest incident has brought to the fore the inability of our
officialdom, especially those at the helm of City and Town and
Planning as well as the Municipal,Metropolitan and District
Assemblies (MMDAs) to keep a professional eye on the many stores
and houses springing up in our towns and cities.
For these officials and other traditional rulers who sell or lease
plots of land for these multi-national companies, what matters to
them most is the financial gains in selling these lands.
Other issues like how to supervise the construction of such
multi-faceted edifice are considered too peripheral a personal
issue to warrant any official probing and supervision.
The Ministry of Works, Housing & Water Resources, the parent
government agency that has the oversight responsibility in ensuring
that proper permits are granted for such housing projects cannot
escape blame.
And so if it is true that the owners of the MELCOM building had no
permit to put No. 62 5th Crescent, Asylum Down, Accra, Post Office
Box GP 17187, Tel.: 030 702 2483 up the five- storey building, then
the call for the resignation of the Accra Mayor should also
beextended to the Minister of Works, Housing & Water Resources
and his deputy.
But should these negligent officials only resign their positions?
We say No!They should be prosecuted!
We often wait for such avoidable disasters and shed crocodile tears
to cover-up for our ineptitudes and sloppiness in dealing with such
systemic failures. True to prediction,President John Dramani Mahama
has suspended his campaign somewhere in the country to mourn with
the victims and the affected families.
Indeed the government has declared the area — Achimota-Neoplan,
around where the disaster occurred, a disaster zone.
Vice-President, Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, was also at the
scene,coordinating rescue efforts.
The PPP does not in any way share in the presidential grief. At
best it is a grief a bit too late. Our stance is neither influenced
by the swiftness nor otherwise of the Castle response; but the fact
that ineptitude on the part of officialdom to compel relevant
agencies to be up and doing has led to the current disaster and
many more calamities like the perennial flooding in the northern
parts of the country.
So the blame is not entirely on the doorstep of those agencies
responsible for the planning of our town and cities, but also the
powers-that-be (in this case government) to deal with the systemic
failure which today has brought to us a terrible Black
Wednesday.
In many of such instances, officialdom rather than dealing with the
incompetent lots, tend to subtly defend their cronies.
We were shocked to hear media reports that Vice President Kwesi
Amissah-Arthur said the MELCOM building collapsed shortly before
the MELCOM store was due to open for business.
This is in sharp contrast to an eyewitness report by one Ama
Okyere, who said she was very close to the incident.
According to her, she had to run for her life, because she was so
terrified and believed there were lots of people trapped under the
debris because Achimota MELCOM is heavily patronised.
Ama's story was corroborated by many other eye-witnesses,
suggesting that MELCOM had indeed opened for business for the day
when the disaster struck. So we ask His Excellency, the Vice
President, that if MELCOM was not opened for the day's business,
how come that many victims were feared trapped and dead, under the
rubble? Were they all workers of MELCOM?
Richmond Keelson,
Communications Directorate
Progressive People’s Party (PPP)
PPP accuses media of
bias
Source: Kelvin Dartey / 04.11.2012
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has accused the media of
conspiring with bigger political parties in the country to hinder
their chances of getting through to the electorates through the
media.
According to the party, the Institute of Economic Affairs’ (IEA)
discriminatory acts have been complemented by the media’s
deliberate attempt to sideline PPP members on platforms where
salient political discussions are made.
The Presidential candidate of the party was prevented from
participating in the IEA’s Presidential debate which took place
last week Tuesday at Tamale in the Northern Region.
According to the IEA, only political parties with representation in
Ghana’s Parliament are allowed to participate in the debate.
The General Secretary of the PPP, Kofi Asamoah Siaw told Accra
based Citi Fm, their Presidential candidate, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom
is competent to speak on topical national issues.
He explained saying, “we fight for us to be included and they give
us one person per week or one person every other week. We are there
and we can see. Why? The policy alternatives, we believe ours is
the most credible.”
“We have the information, we have attended the same schools, we
have read the same constitution so what is it when a topic is put
forward, only the NDC and the NPP can speak to?” he asked.
Mr. Siaw insisted that “we have a competent Presidential candidate,
who from where we sit is best placed and most qualified for the job
of President. Once the invitation is being extended to political
parties, the PPP must be included. We do not even have to
fight.”
Progressive People’s Party (PPP)
"I'll halt Oti river floods
when elected into power"
PPP
Source: GNA / 31.10.2012
The flag bearer of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Papa Kwesi
Nduom, has promised to halt the perennial problems caused by the
Oti River when elected into power.
According to the PPP standard bearer, a PPP administration would
put in place ‘stringent policies’ that would ensure that water from
the river would be used for other purposes other than allowing it
to cause destruction of communities around its banks. The perennial
flooding of the Oti River has been a major cause of worry for the
people of Saboba and surrounding villages, especially as it
destroys farmlands and properties amounting to millions of Ghana
cedis.
This, Dr. Nduom said, has resulted in poverty in the area and also
a cause for migration of many from the Northern belt to the south
in search of non-existing jobs.
Dr. Nduom, who pledged this during his northern regional tour also
tasked the people of the region to vote for the PPP to implement
good policies that would improve upon their livelihoods. He was of
the opinion that a PPP government on assumption of office was going
to cancel the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE)
concept and instead make education Free and Compulsory-which would
ensure the completion point for primary education to be at the
Senior High School (SHS) level.
“Not only is a PPP government presenting to you quality education,
healthcare would be improved and jobs provided as well…,” he added.
Dr. Nduom as part of his Northern Regional campaign tour also
visited party supporters who were involved in an accident on the
Saboba road at the Saboba Health Centre.
This was after the party supporters were being conveyed from
Samboli, to Saboba where the PPP flag bearer was expected to
address a rally as part of his campaign tour of the Saboba
constituency of the Northern region.
The driver apparently lost control of the steering wheel while
making a curve and “threw the passengers out” upon reaching the
township.
He paid their bills and tasked the Medical Superintendent to work
hard on them to ensure their fast recovery. He also wished the
injured a speedy recovery to continue the campaign of making the
party cause a major stir in the elections.
Progressive People's Party (PPP)
"Vote against NDC &
NPP"
Source: Joy Online / 31.10.2012
The Progressive People's Party (PPP) led by its presidential
candidate, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, on Sunday, 28 October, asked the
chiefs and people of Wulensi in the Northern Region to punish the
political parties which went to court to stop the by-election which
was scheduled for July 2012.
To this end, he urged them to vote massively for the PPP and its
parliamentary candidate, Issa Damba - first, because he is the best
candidate and then to send a strong message to the NDC, NPP, CPP
and the PNC who strategised to deny them representation in
Parliament.
It would be recalled that the independent Member of Parliament for
the Wulensi, Alhaji Sanni, passed away which set the stage for a
by-election to be held to choose a new candidate.
Unfortunately, after all preparations had been made, the NDC, CPP,
NPP and PNC jointly and at the very last minute went to court to
stop the election which they filed candidates and campaigned to
participate in.
To Dr. Nduom, this was hypocrisy at its highest level and is
something the people of Wulensi must not forget.
The people became very animated and gave huge applause when Dr.
Nduom asked the people to remember the good works of the late MP
Alhaji Sanni and his efforts to unite the people and told them that
PPP’s Issa Damba will continue his good works.
An enthusiastic crowd received the PPP national campaign team at
the outskirts of the Wulensi town and escorted them to an exciting
rally at the market center. This was the third visit of Dr. Nduom
to the area in 2012.
The chief of Wulensi thanked Dr. Nduom for bringing banking
services to the doorstep of the people. The campaign team moved to
Bimbilla where the PPP’s parliamentary candidate, Hajia Ibbisah
Zaharatu, set the people on fire at a mammoth rally on late Sunday
evening.
Even as the rally went on into the night, the people would not go
home and kept telling Dr. Nduom to stay with them a little
longer.
Dr. Nduom repeated the PPP’s commitment to peace, discipline,
respect for opponents and the principle of one nation and one
people. He advised PPP members and supporters to continue to be
law-abiding, comport themselves and treat all as brothers and
sisters.
He declared that the PPP sees Ghanaians and not Akans, Nanumbas,
Konkombas, Dagombas, Ewes, or Ga people. The PPP, he said, has come
to unite the people.
Dr. Nduom told the people that it is only the PPP that will bring
stable electricity, good drinking water and better quality
education. He expressed his happiness and satisfaction with the
positive response and support demonstrated and declared that the
Northern Region will prove to be a stronghold of the PPP.
The PPP, he was confident, will win many parliamentary seats in the
Northern Region on 7th December. Dr. Nduom asked the people to note
the differences in the political parties and their symbols so as
not to make a mistake on 7th December.
The party's symbol, the bright rising red sun and the colors, red
and white were explained to the chiefs and people. The bright red
sun was associated with being awake, strength, life, hard work,
hope and prosperity.
The people were given a demonstration about voting on December 7th
to look for the bright red sun, to vote twice for the PPP at Number
4 on the ballot for the Presidency and Number 3 for the
Parliamentary races in Wulensi and Bimbilla.
The National Campaign team led by Dr. Nduom included the National
Treasurer, Mr. Felix Ograh, and Communications Officers, Mr. Sammy
Ampah and Mr. Michael Kunke.
They were accompanied by the Northern Region Chairman of the PPP,
Alhaji Baba, the Regional Organiser, Murtala Kwame, Women’s
Organiser, the Secretary, Vice Chairperson and other regional
officials of the party.
