Ghana in Crisis – Nana Declares

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) yesterday introduced an innovation to its fundraising strategies to aid its 2016 electioneering campaign, where the presidential candidate called on Ghanaians to join in salvaging the country through their donations.

The NPP flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, launched the fundraising campaign at the party’s headquarters in Accra to help drive what he described as the incompetent Mahama administration out of office.

The fundraising has four platforms: the cluster, which enables groups of five persons and above who can come together with a common purpose to send their donations to the party; the mobile application (‘I am for Nana’) on the internet which also enables individuals and groups of persons both home and abroad to contribute using their Visa or MasterCard and allows donors in Ghana to donate also via Mobile Money.

The rest include the mobile airtime donation which enables buyers of specially designed NPP-MTN and Vodafone scratch (recharge) cards to donate half of the amount paid for the cards to the party and the Short Message Service (SMS) platform which enables mobile phone users to send their donations or contributions of any amount to the party through a short code (12012).

The NPP as a party believes that “every cedi a day sends the NDC away” and has since adopted same as the slogan for the fundraising campaign.

Nation In Crisis

Nana Akufo-Addo said Ghana, as it stands today, is a nation in crisis.

His basis was that the agriculture sector, which is the bedrock of the country’s economy, “is a pale shadow of its former self” while “manufacturing is at a very low ebb, with corruption at its peak.”

Apart from that, he said “Our economy is in tatters, inflation is high, taxes are rising, businesses, both big and small, are struggling and millions of young men and women are without work,” adding that incompetence has become the hallmark of the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government.

He expressed total disappointment in the fact that “government appointments are not based on merit, but on considerations which are not only puzzling, but also bizarre.”

Furthermore, Nana Akufo-Addo indicated that “Our healthcare system is in shambles, with the collapse of the NHIS whiles the cost of education continues to be a big challenge for too many families. Young people, who have toiled to obtain qualifications, are having great difficulty in finding jobs, not to talk of the hundreds of thousands of Ghanaian children who are not getting the kind of education that they need to compete in the 21st century.”

The opposition leader disclosed that the party’s 2016 fundraising campaign was therefore “targeted at every single Ghanaian who is depressed and dejected at the sorry state in which our country is.”

Reason

It was for this reason he stressed the need for Ghanaians to vote out President Mahama and his incompetent lot in government to make way for the NPP.

“Ghana is in trouble. There is the need for a change in the way this country is governed, a change that will make way for a competent, honest, hardworking, well-qualified team to take over the affairs of this country and steer it in the direction of prosperity for all, instead of the current state of affairs which dwells on prosperity for the friends and family of the people in power,” were his exact words to a thunderous applause amidst cheers from the crowd that had gathered at the party’s Asylum Down headquarters to catch a glimpse of proceedings.

According to Nana Akufo-Addo, “What excites me is that in spite of all the difficulties, the Ghanaian people have hope; they have hope for a brighter future, they have hope because they believe change is coming. They believe change is coming because all over the country, Ghanaians from all walks of life, whether NPP or not, are all doing their bit to make this change happen this November.”

Appeal

The party has therefore invited all Ghanaians both home and abroad, no matter their status in society, who are sick and tired of the Mahama government’s corruption and incompetence “to sign up to donate money to the NPP’s campaign and throw their weight behind it, believing that in the collective force of their individual power, together, we would effect the change our country so desperately needs.”

That, he said, was because “no amount is too small”, believing that “if 1,000 people donate one cedi every day till election day, the campaign will raise in excess of two hundred thousand cedis—a sum of money that would significantly support our efforts to ensure we get rid of the Mahama government, God willing, on November 7.” He assured potential contributors that “the money you contribute will be used for its true purpose.”

A group of mobile scratch card distributors bought the first tranche of the card for GH¢300,000.

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