The Campaign For Change (CFC) as it’s popularly known, finds it necessary at this point to respond to the numerous negative and misleading campaigns being carried out by certain individuals and groups against the President John E.A Mills and his Government. Particularly, the THREAT OF COUP D’ETAT "advocated" by Honorable Dan Botwe, (Reference: Peacefmonline) former information Minister in the immediate past administration which seeks to indicate among other things that, the late President Limman and President Mills were not chosen by the electorate, but rather imposed on them by Flt. Lt. JJ Rawlings and that he (Rawlings) will soon overthrow the government of President Mills the way the former President Limman was overthrown. This indeed is an insult to the intelligence of Ghanaians.
Perhaps Honorable Dan Botwe and his likes need to be reminded that both former President Limman and President Mills were democratically elected as Presidents through the ballot box, and also that President Mills today stands as a true democratically chosen leader of his party haven won the mandate of its delegates who overwhelmingly elected him twice to lead the party.
Ghana as a nation has come along way and many have made a lot of sacrifices for us to achieve the democracy and stability that we enjoy today. As such, it is incumbent on all of us as citizens of this country, to defend and preserve this hard won freedom, peace and stability. It is therefore for this reason we find it extremely worrying for an Honorable member of parliament to make such irresponsible statement.
It will be recalled that since the year 2000, there has been a systematic and deliberate campaign to destroy the personality of President Mills by describing him as not being his own man and that he will be controlled by former President Rawlings if elected as President. This negative propaganda continued throughout the electioneering campaigns and indeed became much more intensified during the 2008 election with numerous radio and TV adverts including the distribution of so called "Calendars" all aimed at making the point - a vote for Mills is a vote for Rawlings.
However, three months into President Mills’s administration, it is now clear to all that President Mills is his own man and indeed does things in accordance with the constitution which he has sworn to uphold all the times and not in accordance with anybody’s wish, pressure or influence. This is so because, if former President Rawlings has the slightest control over President J.E.A Mills, he wouldn’t have gone public with his disagreement with the ‘style’ of his leadership.
Instead of Honorable Dan Botwe and his NPP apologizing to President Mills for their wrong assumption, they rather choose to misinterpret the reality to suit them without regards to its consequential effect on the stability and security of this nation. Indeed this is an irresponsible and undemocratic behaviour by people calling themselves democrats.
In the light of this development however, we therefore can safely say that this is a calculated attempt aimed at destabilizing the government and therefore make it difficult for Mills’ admistration to succeed so as to make a case for an NPP return to power.
For those who do not understand the style of President Mills’ leadership and therefore thinks he’s "too slow" for their liken and are calling for some heads to roll, let they be reminded that it is a fulfillment of a major policy statement by the President that he will be a President for all Ghanaians and not a section of them, therefore no one shall be made to suffer unduly because of his or her political, tribal or religious affiliation as happen to many others in the past. Hence his (Mills’) decision to allow many former government appointees to remain at post several months into his administration.
President Mills despite the constitutional constraints (on method of appointments) and the limited transitional period particularly in the just ended election is on record to have been the fastest President, by forming a government within three months since 1992.
What confront us as a nation today are the numerous economic challenges both within and without our frontiers which we must collectively strive to overcome as quickly as possible in order to alleviate the suffering, poverty and disease amongst our people, and not those negative and divisive campaigns and propaganda.
We are therefore at this juncture calling on President Mills and his government as a matter of urgency to investigate the following alleged acts of economic sabotage and bring perpetrators (if any) to book.
The alledge massive buying and hoarding of the dollar by certain individuals in order to create shortage, leading to the fall of the cedi
To create an effective monitoring group within the BANK OF GHANA to monitor and regulate the repatriation of foreign currency from the country and also endeavour to check the alleged trading of fake currency through the bank by certain individuals and institutions.
Continue with the investigation into the serial killing of the women which ended soon after the 2000 elections, to unravel the mystery surrounding it, in order to forestall any future occurrence and also expedite action on all outstanding issues relating to drug and corruption.
We will finally like to call on President Mills and his Government not to engage
these dishonest politicians, but rather, use the limited time and resources available to it for the benefit of the people by implementing its pro-poor oriented policies it promised, while we also ask the good people of Ghana to be patient and support government in its efforts aimed at making life better for all.
Perhaps Honorable Dan Botwe and his likes need to be reminded that both former President Limman and President Mills were democratically elected as Presidents through the ballot box, and also that President Mills today stands as a true democratically chosen leader of his party haven won the mandate of its delegates who overwhelmingly elected him twice to lead the party.
Ghana as a nation has come along way and many have made a lot of sacrifices for us to achieve the democracy and stability that we enjoy today. As such, it is incumbent on all of us as citizens of this country, to defend and preserve this hard won freedom, peace and stability. It is therefore for this reason we find it extremely worrying for an Honorable member of parliament to make such irresponsible statement.
It will be recalled that since the year 2000, there has been a systematic and deliberate campaign to destroy the personality of President Mills by describing him as not being his own man and that he will be controlled by former President Rawlings if elected as President. This negative propaganda continued throughout the electioneering campaigns and indeed became much more intensified during the 2008 election with numerous radio and TV adverts including the distribution of so called "Calendars" all aimed at making the point - a vote for Mills is a vote for Rawlings.
However, three months into President Mills’s administration, it is now clear to all that President Mills is his own man and indeed does things in accordance with the constitution which he has sworn to uphold all the times and not in accordance with anybody’s wish, pressure or influence. This is so because, if former President Rawlings has the slightest control over President J.E.A Mills, he wouldn’t have gone public with his disagreement with the ‘style’ of his leadership.
Instead of Honorable Dan Botwe and his NPP apologizing to President Mills for their wrong assumption, they rather choose to misinterpret the reality to suit them without regards to its consequential effect on the stability and security of this nation. Indeed this is an irresponsible and undemocratic behaviour by people calling themselves democrats.
In the light of this development however, we therefore can safely say that this is a calculated attempt aimed at destabilizing the government and therefore make it difficult for Mills’ admistration to succeed so as to make a case for an NPP return to power.
For those who do not understand the style of President Mills’ leadership and therefore thinks he’s "too slow" for their liken and are calling for some heads to roll, let they be reminded that it is a fulfillment of a major policy statement by the President that he will be a President for all Ghanaians and not a section of them, therefore no one shall be made to suffer unduly because of his or her political, tribal or religious affiliation as happen to many others in the past. Hence his (Mills’) decision to allow many former government appointees to remain at post several months into his administration.
President Mills despite the constitutional constraints (on method of appointments) and the limited transitional period particularly in the just ended election is on record to have been the fastest President, by forming a government within three months since 1992.
What confront us as a nation today are the numerous economic challenges both within and without our frontiers which we must collectively strive to overcome as quickly as possible in order to alleviate the suffering, poverty and disease amongst our people, and not those negative and divisive campaigns and propaganda.
We are therefore at this juncture calling on President Mills and his government as a matter of urgency to investigate the following alleged acts of economic sabotage and bring perpetrators (if any) to book.
The alledge massive buying and hoarding of the dollar by certain individuals in order to create shortage, leading to the fall of the cedi
To create an effective monitoring group within the BANK OF GHANA to monitor and regulate the repatriation of foreign currency from the country and also endeavour to check the alleged trading of fake currency through the bank by certain individuals and institutions.
Continue with the investigation into the serial killing of the women which ended soon after the 2000 elections, to unravel the mystery surrounding it, in order to forestall any future occurrence and also expedite action on all outstanding issues relating to drug and corruption.
We will finally like to call on President Mills and his Government not to engage
these dishonest politicians, but rather, use the limited time and resources available to it for the benefit of the people by implementing its pro-poor oriented policies it promised, while we also ask the good people of Ghana to be patient and support government in its efforts aimed at making life better for all.
.ADAM MOHAHAMMED SANUSI
National Secretary
.ABDEL-MANAN ABDEL-RAHMAN
National Coordinator
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