Full Statement: Ghana Needs Real Democracy – Economic Fighters League

LEAGUE OF ECONOMIC STRUGGLE

DECLARATION OF CIC ERNESTO YEBOAH LAUNCHED AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE OF JULY 8, 2019

The Economic Fighters League thanks you from the media and fighters for taking the time to come. We are also grateful, dear Ghanaians, for taking the time to receive our bail at your home and office.

In collusion with some MPs, the Speaker of Parliament is wasting $ 200 million of borrowed money to build a useless new parliament. Note that this faces relevant social, economic and security challenges.

There is a growing state of insecurity and a restriction of the freedom of the press; kidnapping and armed robbery. What happened to the three beautiful Ghanaian ladies who were abducted more than a year ago in Takoradi? We were here when Canadian girls who were kidnapped were saved in a few hours. How many Ghanaians have been murdered at home so far? What was done about these killings? If a member of Parliament is killed at his home and almost five years later, nothing conclusive has been done, what do you feel as a Ghanaian?

On the economic front, we are getting poorer. Street life is a growing threat. The poor implementation of the housing policy, which is manifested by the scarcity of housing, continues to drive up rents in this country. Renting a room in the capital is life threatening. Sustainable jobs do not exist, so that bright young Ghanaians, after school, wither in despair. There is no viable plan to lift the youth of this country out of despair.

Dear Ghanaians, enter our markets and observe the conditions that prevail there. our mothers, wives, sisters and daughters compete daily with garbage to do business. It is necessary to modernize the places where our food is sold and where the native economy is directed. There is still work to be done on our roads to allow many areas of our country to progress materially. How are the parents of the six KG students who were sent into their first graves when their dilapidated school block collapsed on them? The state does not value Ghanaian life. It is not a question of reminding you of your sufferings; but, let me ask you how many Ghanaians have died as a result of our poor health system.

We have become victims of a dysfunctional state, which some claim to build. Hospitals do not have beds, no oxygen tanks, no needles, no adequate staff, no electricity, and so on. Anthony Opoku-Acheampong, aged 70, was killed, about seven public hospitals refused him entry for lack of space. How many babies have died at birth, some with their mothers, because of a dysfunctional health system? Who else do we want to see dead before realizing that it's time to wake up?

We can not pretend not to be disturbed by such deceptive behavior. Ghana has been misled by the political choreographers who have banded together into two theater groups – NDC and NPP – and have ruined us all. We are rightly angry. The young people of this country are desperate and we do not sit down to be killed by desperation, so we are ready to dismantle this caricature of a false democracy that feeds on us.

My dear citizens, most Ghanaians are aware of the problems that I have raised and it is instructive to note that there is general disapproval on the part of the mbades against the frivolous project of the House. For this reason, we were in Parliament on Friday 5^th July to record our discontent since all the channels for a civilian interrogation of the system were closed.

He flew in circles as parliament abandoned the insensitive idea of ​​building a useless new parliament. We do not trust them. We demand official statements from the Speaker and the Majority Leader of Parliament and the Government that this project has been aborted.

My dear Ghanaians, while the police were mistreating me, said that the young people of this country should rise up. We were lied to democracy in Ghana.

Where is democracy when young people who make up the majority of the population do not have a voice? Where is democracy when the resources of the people can be given to strangers on a silver platter without their consent? Where is democracy when 9.2 million people can not afford a meal of 5 GHC per day? Where is democracy when our elected representatives have become lords over us? Where is democracy when servants have become masters and those who are supposed to be masters have to beg for their basic needs to be met? Where is democracy when young people do not have jobs or livelihoods?

Where is democracy when elected employees can do what they want, whether we like it or not – we say we do not want a cathedral, they say they will build; we say that we do not want a US-Ghana military settlement agreement, they spend it in three days; we say we want the law on the right to information, it takes them 17 years to adopt it; now we say we do not want a new room, they stop us, abuse us and attack us, just to shut us up.

What we have is a false democracy created and supported by a SAKAWA constitution. There is no democracy in Ghana. What we have is a show of democracy where the representatives represent their own interests. People have no power, except once every four years, when they form long queues to vote for people who do not care about their well-being.

Let's not lose sight of the clbad struggle we are facing. The privileged few are determined to ensure their comfort. Oppressed peoples, on the other hand, seek to survive.

Look at their arguments for the construction of the room; that it will help the speaker to see the members well. If the President can not see well, these are glbades that he does not need a new room. The most ridiculous thing is that it will prevent both sides – majority and minority – from fighting physically. They also complain about the space. This existing room is almost always empty. The Speaker has had several times the opportunity to complain about the absenteeism of the deputies. Odekro has published reports that show concrete data on how MPs are absent from the House.

Last year, we took their data and presented a petition to the President to declare 54 seats of deputies who had violated Article 97 of the Constitution. He did not even have the courtesy to acknowledge or respond to our petition. So when I hear that our approach was wrong and that we should have written a petition, I ask them: "Should we continue to write long letters and petitions that are not answered?

The peaceful Saturday demonstration organized by Rasheeda Adams and other brave patriots has our full support. I will be there live. All the fighters will be there. We need all Ghanaians who can come Saturday for the march of two million Ghanaians. Nobody should stay at home. We, the citizens, must do everything in our power to ensure that this new room is not built. We will not sit down and let $ 200 million be spent on a totally useless project like this, when money is needed to do a number of important things. Teachers recruited for the dual track SHS system have not been paid for nine months. This money can pay them.

NABCO youth earn only 700 GHC per month. For those living in cities where the cost of living is high, it hardly brings them home. Even in Parliament, Odekro data shows that many of the young people who work as research badistants earn between 300 and 500 GHC per month. How should they survive in Accra with such lean wages? This money can be used to increase their salary. We can count many education and health infrastructure needs for which $ 200 million can be used. Why spend it in a new frivolous room?