REMARKS BY THE MINORITY LEADER, HON. CASSIEL ATO FORSON, (PhD) @ THE NDC CAMPAIGN LAUNCH IN TAMALE ON SATURDAY, 27TH JULY, 2024

Greetings in Dagbani

Your Excellency John Mahama, leader and flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC)

Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Running Mate to incoming President Mahama;

Fellow Akatamansonians

On behalf of the NDC Minority Caucus inParliament, I bring you very warm greetings

Today, the great NDC is officially launching our campaign and our forward march to victory 2024

Comrades,

our country is in a messa gargantuan messa big fat mess!In fact, Ghana is in trouble!

This Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government has been a monumental failure

It has been almost eight (8) years of:

Lies, lies and more lies

Impunity and lawlessness

Recklessness and cluelessness

No Job and Joblessness

No hope and Hopelessness

Hardships, misery and Ahokyer3

Tax, Taxes and more Taxes

Borrowing, more borrowing and over-borrowing

Illegal printing of money and more illegal printing of money at the Bank of Ghana

Wastage

Non-performanceIt has been almost eight (8) years of:

Poor governance

Massive uncontrolled corruption

State capture

Family and friends

Arrogance of power

I HAVE HEARD SOME GHANAIANS SAY,THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN POLITICS AND THAT THEY ARE NOT GOING TO VOTE

I bet, you will have a change of mind if you are aware that:

11.5 million Ghanaians, representing 33.3% of ourpeople, have been thrown into extreme poverty due to the bad policies of President Akufo-Addo and Vice President Alhaji Bawumia

I bet, you will have a change of mind if you are aware that:

8.4 million Ghanaians representing 24.5% of our people went a day without food in 2023, according to Ghana Statistical Service

2 million Ghanaians are facing acute food and nutrition insecurity, according to the World Bank

35% of our employable youth are unemployed (the highest in the Fourth Republic)

1.9 million of our youth are idle with no work, no training and no education, according to the Ghana Statistical Service

Out of Ghana’s population of 33 million, about 22million are jobless

This means 2 out of every 3 Ghanaians are jobless

Another 4.5 million of our people have completelygiven up on their search for jobs out of frustration

50% of our doctors are now working abroad due to poor working conditions, says the Ghana Human Development reportI bet, you will have a change of mind if you are aware that:

This government borrowed and overborrowed and have made Ghana bankrupt

Ghana is so broke that the country cannot repay its debt.

Even pensioners were made to suffer crude and painful haircuts

The Bank of Ghana is now bankrupt and policy insolvent

Ghana’s cocoa sector has collapsed

And almost all state-owned enterprises are recording huge losses and collapsing

With this poor scorecard of this Akufo-Addo/ Bawumia government, my fellow countrymen and women:

This is a call to duty!

Don’t sit on the fence!

We owe Ghana a joint effort and communal labour to rescue and reset our dear country

“WALAAHI, WE NEED TO RESCUE OURCOUNTRY”!

“TOUCH WOOD, WE WILL RESET GHANA”!

Our forward march to victory requires not only hard work but also unity, togetherness, purposefulness, concerted effort and extreme vigilance, among others

Come out in your numbers and vote John Mahama and NDC Parliamentary candidates on 7thDecember, 2024

I thank you all.