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CJA urges government to
to move towards the promised "change"
Accra, April 21, Ghanadot/GNA –
The Committee for Joint Action (CJA) on Tuesday urged
government to pursue pragmatic measures in the 2008
Manifesto of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to
ensure economic empowerment for Ghanaians.
It said the seeming lack of change in the direction of
policies was not encouraging and could not address the
spiralling cost of living.
A statement read by Mr Bernard Mornah, Member of the CJA, at
a press conference in Accra, said Ghanaians voted for change
and expected that there would be change in the status quo to
a more human-centred approach to addressing the hardships
facing them.
It said the conventional approach that had been adopted over
the years to address the country’s economic underdevelopment
had proved to be unreliable and there was the need to
undertake a complete overhaul of the country’s economic
policy focus.
The CJA said the practice of passing on the cost of crude
oil prices to consumers anytime it went up on the
international market was not sustainable and urged
government to resort to hedging to alleviate the plight of
Ghanaians.
Touching on water, it said the government must urgently
implement measures to address the water crisis that had
bedevilled the country adding that it must not only be made
available but also affordable.
It said government must do away with the policy of disposing
the country’s strategic assets whenever it was in some
financial difficulty adding that such policies had not
yielded dividend.
It called on the legislature and the judiciary to
independently discharge their duties to restore their image
in the eyes of Ghanaians.
The CJA said it had uncovered corruption and mismanagement
of state funds within the previous administration and called
on government to review all dubious agreements and bring to
justice those who might have been implicated in such acts.
GNA
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