Mahama Can Never Cow Us Into Self-Preservation – Afenyo Markin

Mahama Can By no means Cow Us Into Self-Preservation – Afenyo Markin

The Minority Chief in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo- Markin says actions taken by the Nationwide Democratic Congress (NDC) because it assumed the reins of energy are all geared in direction of what he described as ‘carving them into ‘self-Preservation’.
Afenyo -Markin who made this recognized when he addressed the New Patriotic Get together (NPP) sympathizers on the Get together’s headquarters yesterday in Accra forward of the anticipated demonstration on Could 5 mentioned such actions can’t crash the NPP spirit.
He described the transfer to droop the Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkunoo in furtherance of President Mahama’s agenda to subsequently as not solely focused at solely the workplace of the Chief Justice but additionally former appointees of the NPP authorities.
“They will by no means use this to cow us into self-preservation, to crush the NPP spirit. They now wish to management our courts. So what are we seeing?

They try to sack the Chief Justice. I, on behalf of the Minority Caucus, hereby say that what we’re witnessing at this time beneath John Mahama-led authorities is a scientific and calculated assault on the independence of the judiciary”.

“An establishment that everyone knows is the final line of protection for the rule of regulation, the safety of rights, and the survival of our democratic republic. At present, what we see is intimidation, political interference, and open concentrating on of judges who’re perceived as inconvenient and non-compliant,” he mentioned.

That he added weren’t ‘solely unacceptable however ‘repugnant to good conscience’ and must be resisted by all Ghanaians to assist shield the institutional integrity of the nation.

Mass Dismissal

The Minority chief additionally chronicled some occasions which have occurred beneath the administration of the NDC since assumption of workplace particularly the dismissal of public servants, together with lecturers and nurses opposite to its promise of making jobs for the youth.

He famous that individuals who had been employed for over 7 years opposite to the NDC’s personal directive had been instantly sacked they changed some institutional heads with their get together faithfuls as a part of their resetting agenda.

Goldbod

Concerning unlawful mining, Afenyo-Markin acknowledged that the NDC used the unlawful mining popularly referred to as ‘Galamsey’ as a marketing campaign device in opposition to the NPP whereas in opposition however have failed to deal with the menace to the extent of institutionalizing a Goldbod that it claimed will purchase tools for small scale miners.

‘At present what can we see, based on organised labour, this isn’t from NPP, and the galamsey state of affairs has worsened. What’s the essence of the Goldbod? You and I do know that their intent is to not assist any small scale miner. Their intent is to assist ‘galamsey’. That’s precisely what they’re doing and they’re monopolizing the acquisition of gold to hire it,” he famous

Navy

He additionally bemoaned the state at which the NDC authorities has additionally politicized the Ghana Armed Forces right into a partisan Establishment which has not been recorded within the historical past of the nation because the period of each President John A. Kufuor and Nana Akufo-Addo.

In keeping with him, the Navy has all the time been stored out of politics and allowed navy generals to serve till they retired particularly senior officers however some have at this time been utterly worn out attributable to politics.

‘’These heads in our navy, the generals, had been allowed to remain in workplace when NPP assumed workplace. Some served for over a yr, till they retired, however what are we seeing at this time? There’s a whole wipe-out on the highest degree of the navy. They first determined to clear these senior officers, the generals’’.

Taxes

The Minority chief additional talked about that actions by the NDC revealed its hypocrisy given the guarantees it made to Ghanaians to scale back taxes and but has even elevated utility tariffs and a few taxes within the mining sector although the nation is plagued with energy outages.

The Minority Chief additionally highlighted the criticism made in opposition to the NPP by the NDC for the nominations of two extra judges who had been speculated to be authorised on the plenary to the supreme courtroom bench and but have additionally nominated seven extra to the Supreme courtroom.

“This authorities should tread with the best warning, all the time protecting tomorrow in thoughts when taking selections at this time as a result of these selections might form future governments. What has modified? We depart it to the nice conscience of the NDC authorities themselves. However I wish to inform them that we’ll not relent. We, in Parliament, will maintain their ft to the fireplace and combat for the peculiar Ghanaian,” he acknowledged.

By Ebenezer Okay. Amponsah

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