Leader of Independent Presidential Aspirants, Kofi Koranteng has challenged Ghanaians that a new day has dawn to redirect the country’s developmental path that had been made crooked by New Patriotic Party (NPP) and National Democratic Congress (NDC).

He said the path these two political parties has churn out is nothing but bad governance as shown by poor or lack of prosecution of public theft or corruption.

“The wealth gap in Ghana is one of the highest in the world with one man owning an estimated tens of billions of cedis while paying his sanitation workers a mere GhC120 or $21 per month,” he says. “Both the NPP and the NDC in the last 29 years have shown no empathy to the ordinary Ghanaian but both parties agree to spend an estimated GhC3.42 Billion on luxury vehicles for politicians alone.”

Despite Jerry John Rawlings zealous in the 1979 coup to purge the system of perceived corruption that allegedly led to the false disappearance of some individuals yet the canker is still alive, eating up into the very bone of the country like cancer.

The Fourth Republic had witnessed successful alternation of the NPP and NDC but little is there to show for prosecution of public theft, although all the apparatus for investigation are available at their disposal at every given time. Meanwhile, the two parties are quick at pointing and referring to each other as corrupt and who did worse than the other during their tenure.

“In the meantime the NPP under Nana Akufo-Addo has set the world record in loans per capita, and the lowest public crime prosecution in the post-Independence era. There is nothing to show, [except] free education that kids everywhere deserved in the first place from all adults in society,” Mr. Koranteng.

To him, these two parties simply have no empathy for the very citizens they deemed to represent, as thousands of goods students from poor backgrounds are left behind without university access, due to affordability.

He said the economy, per the Vice President Dr. Mahumadu Bawumia standard and definition, is so bad that the dollar per cedi equivalent today, is nothing good to write home about.

The evidence of bad governance, he said: “While paying 2.5% of taxes as National Health insurance levy, there is no accountability as Health facilities are poorly equipped, and new hospitals built are left abandoned by different regimes. Again the people to doctor ratio has almost doubled from what it was in the 1970s.”

Mr Koranteng added that while the two parties are parading themselves all over the place of infrastructure projects they have provided, the reality on the ground is that more than 80% of the people do not have clean drinking water at home. Even in the cities, water is still being rationed despite more than $2.3 billion in loans since the 2004 era.

“There comes a time when men have to stand up! We do not need a military coup! No! We must stand up against the oppression by our own kind! The man putting his knees on our necks are the NPP and NDC leadership. Period! The only man who stood up at the Diaspora Summit in 2017 was Mr. Kofi Koranteng! Yes! We must all stop whining and stand up to support!” he added.

What new is Kofi Koranteng bring?

He hoped to team up global Ghanaian professionals and leaders from Australia, UK and USA to build an Institute a National Development Plan from a science-based, data driven and human-centered empathy and social services and by inspiring the youth.

Overhaul the National Constitution and empower and assist towns and districts with Town Councils and self-generated capital of more than $10 Billion for their own development

To ensure effective enforce Law and Order, review and modernize the judicial system and institute discipline in all areas of our nation from the classrooms to the boardrooms and abolish ex-gratia emoluments, sitting and travel allowances and save $100 million to $1 billion.

Put our Youth to work by investing the savings from resizing and reducing Government spending – provide small loans to buy tools and machinery for all licensed technicians, artisans, and graduates of technical and vocational schools.

Appoint only 10-20 Ministers and cut $100 million or more from the Budget, institute a flat-rate Import Duty on vehicles and machinery of 5% to 10% and to provide low interest loans for all students who need it and all with Business ideas

By Akutu Dede Adimer