The full text of Dr. Mahama’s The People’s National Convention (PNC) press conference in Accra on Wednesday
On the morning of last Easter Monday, a group of the youth of Atronie, near Sunyani, manning an illegal road barrier stoned to death Mr. Anthony Yeboah, Presiding Member of the Asunafo North Assembly, mistaking him for a robber. He was driving HIS OWN car and others with him were a nun and his wife.
This tragic example of lawlessness, a free-for-all atmosphere, making Ghana a transit route for narcotics, and rampant corruption that now pervade every institution in our nation create conditions bordering on anarchy. Numerous symptoms everywhere reveal deepening crises in every aspect of our national life. Along with most decent citizens, I wonder if the authorities are undertaking serious diagnoses for solutions to this decent of our nation into what present trends can only lead us into oblivion.
Praises from our foreign “well wishers may well have macroeconomic bases. However, the contrasting fact of life is that, at the microeconomic level, the cost of living, poverty, ignorance, illiteracy, youth unemployment are getting worse, with hardly any relief in sight. Our nation is in such a fermenting crisis that, if Ghana was a patient brought to my clinic, I would immediately place her under intensive care. The PNC view is that unless our national affairs are reorganized for a U-turn from the present worsening conditions, the future looks bleak and hopeless.
The low level water in the Volta Lake that is the cause of our current energy crises is one of several warnings of what is yet to come. Together with the frequent shortages of water for domestic use, these are clear indications of a drought of biblical proportions that is progressively unfolding. A recent international conference of scientists used all the currently available data on climatic trends to predict that Africa is likely to suffer the most from impending drought and poor harvests from current trends in the world’s weather.
The PNC is convinced that the fundamentals in running our nation are off course. Since we do not have enough resources for tackling all our national problems – each of which is important in its own right – a PNC administration would place priority on the following economic sectors, because they have the potential of producing positive catalytic effects on the entire economy.
Source: GhanaWeb
