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Bright Akwetey joins race for CPP presidential
ticket
Accra, Sept. 10 Ghanadot/GNA - Mr Bright
Akwetey, a leading Legal Practitioner, on Monday declared
his intention to contest for the presidential ticket of the
Convention People’s Party (CPP).
He said his “vision for Ghana is a just, free and democratic
society of hardworking and dignified people; proud of their
culture and heritage and working diligently to promote their
progress and prosperity within a new and equitable
development campaign".
Mr Akwetey, who was speaking at packed press conference in
Accra, said he was going to provide alternative development
strategy, which would be different from the policies of the
National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic
Party (NPP) in the provision of the basic necessities life
that would lead to a meaningful improvement in the lives of
the ordinary Ghanaian.
He said he "believe that the State must not abdicate its
responsibilities in society in the name privatisation. The
State must neither shirk its responsibilities to the poor
and marginalized in society, nor to the vulnerable and the
afflicted. The welfare of the people must be paramount in
all planning schemes," he said.
Mr Akwetey also expressed his desire to build Ghana into a
strong, powerful and self-reliant State with full control
over its strategic assets and natural resources.
He said he wanted “to see Ghanaians as a proud, confident,
disciplined and law-abiding citizens, whose standards of
living is measured not in GDP terms, but also in terms of
the extent to which the average Ghanaians can afford good
quality education, shelter, clothing, food and employment
and has the opportunity to travel in decent transport and on
secure and safe roads”.
He said his new development strategy would repose faith in
the Ghanaian and ensure that the citizens were given the
enabling environment to operate.
He said he would institute national awards to honour key
discoveries and inventions in science and technology and
also create the enabling environment for funding local
industries that utilised the results of local discoveries,
inventions and local raw materials.
Mr Akwetey, a Former Chief State Attorney, said even though
the country had made some success in the areas of human
rights, democracy, stability and freedom of the press, but
there were doubts as to whether this freedom and seeming
economic progress were well anchored to sustained
accelerated development for the next 50 years.
He said Ghana; today had been reduced to a nation riddled
with crime; corruption; insensitiveness and arrogance in
high places; impunity and ineptness and selfishness with
patriotism relegated to the back-burner.
Mr Akwetey said there was general breakdown of law and order
and a drift into recklessness, lawlessness and anarchy in
the country.
He said there was no dearth of laws in the country to deal
with all these situations but what had been lacking were the
willingness, the determination, and the courage to enforce
the existing laws.
GNA
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