Green Revolution Will Rradicate Poverty - DFP

Emmanuel Ansah-Antwi The flag bearer of the Democratic Freedom Party (DFP), says the 'Green Revolution' policy that the party intends to implement when voted into power is the surest means of eradicating poverty and raising the country to a middle-income status.

Mr. Emmanuel Ansah-Antwi said the policy was an all-encompassing one that would tackle all the sectors of the nation's economy and thereby address the prevailing imbalance between the rich and the poor in the country.

"We must be firm and resolute in our quest to revolutionarise agriculture in order to make it address the socio-economic challenges facing the nation," he stressed.

Mr Ansah-Antwi said this when he addressed a gathering of party faithful, sympathisers, youth and opinion leaders at Begoro, as part of his tour of the Eastern Region.

He said that the DFP was committed to implementing a people-centred development paradigm, which will make it possible for all Ghanaians to achieve self-actualisation, regardless of their geographic location, tribe or political persuasion.

He kicked against the idea of making the office of the District Chief Executive an elective one, saying that he would institute a system of checks and balances which would see chiefs playing a checking role over DCEs, and thereby controlling excesses on their part.

One of the major steps, he would take when voted into power would be to unite the country, which according to him, had become so polarised due to the divisive politics being undertaken by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and National Democratic Congress (NDC).

"If we are not united, and if we don't involve everybody in the process, then there is no way that we can develop," he added.

The founder and Life Patron of the party, Dr Obed Asamoah, said that Ghana had come of age, and so the people should take a closer look at issues before deciding on who to vote for.

He said some of the parties were so desperate for power and were, therefore, resorting to illegitimate means to attain it, and questioned whether such people, when voted into power, were capable of ruling the country responsibly.

For him, the continued hurling of insults at the President and ex-president by serial callers on radio programmes was rather unfortunate, and called for that practice to cease.

"Politics is about discussing ideas and not the trading of insults. We in the DFP believe that politics should be about religion and moral values. We must be guided by religious and moral values, so that when power is attained, it can be used with a sense of morality," he admonished.

For his part, the Eastern Regional Chairman of the party, Barimah Safo Kantanka, made an appeal to the electorate to vote the DFP to power since they were committed to ensuring peaceful co-existence, dealing with poverty, giving the youth more opportunities and offering Ghanaians career advancement.

He said peace was a crucial ingredient in ensuring development, and that the current hostile environment that had been created by the NPP and the NDC did not augur well for development, saying it was the more reason why Ghanaians must reject those two parties and vote for the DFP.

Story By Victor Kwawukume, Begoro