The Presidential Candidate of Ghana Union Movement (GUM), Christian Kwabena Andrews, also known as Osofo Kyiriabosom says although Ghana’s debt stock has increased by GHC16.9 billion in the first quarter of 2020, it has very little to show for it.

He said Ghana’s inability to industrialise its agriculture and bolster the manufacturing industry as well as overreliance of foreign credit to support various sectors of the economy,   continue to sink the country deep in indebtedness.

This excessive borrowing, he added had been compounded by nepotism, corruption and bribery that deprive the citizens of economic and employment opportunity, access to quality healthcare, shelter, social security, potable drinking water, energy, accessible roads and other developmental infrastructure.

According to him, the two dominating political parties – the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) – have all failed to transform the country although it is richly endowed with natural resources and labour.

In a statement issued by Rev Lenin BK Trotsky, Political Scientist for GUM, he said the NPP and NDC have no excuse for their abysmal failure of the people of Ghana but only that they lack insight of how to design home grown policy to serve the populace.

Although there have been some attempts such as the Akufo-Addo’s flagship One District One Factory, he said it is nothing but a “failed promise…”

In his view, John Mahama coming back has nothing to offer the public because his records show so because he failed severely to fix unemployment issues, fight against corruption and by the excessive IMF borrowing put the nation in a financial risk.

In respect of the failed promises by the two dominating parties, he said if the electorates consider him worthy of their votes, GUM will use homegrown policy to administer the country to provide the people with opportunity.

Osofo Kyiriabosom also used the opportunity to condemn the tribal division that is rising as a result of the voter registration, meanwhile where one comes or the language he or she speaks as people from different ethnic backgrounds fought side by side with Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah for the country to gain independence.

He posited that the Movement is poised to build a society of people where tribalism, corruption, nepotism and cronyism would be a thing of the past, advising “where there is division, there is strife and evil also thrives…”

The flagbearer added that the question of who is a Ghanaian has already been provided for in the 1992  Constitution but a true “Ghanaian is one who is greater in his soul than in his class, creed, political party or the section in which he lives.

“To be a Ghanaian, a man must have a Ghanaian soul and believe in the spiritual realities upon which Ghana rests and out of which Ghana was born. 

“A Ghanaian was created to light mankind with those passions, which lift and not by the passions that separate and debase.  

Ghanaians improve the ideals of man and make them see finer things, causing them to get rid of the things that divide and establish things that unite.

By Akutu Dede Adimer