Vice Presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has promised that when the NDC is voted into power in this year’s elections, they will strengthen both governmental and non-governmental institutions weakened by corruption in the country.
Addressing attendees at her official unveiling at the University of Professional Studies, (UPSA) Accra on Wednesday, April 24, Mrs. Naana Opoku-Agyemang remarked the prevalence of corruption in the government, adding the NDC’s vision to effectively manage the issue.
“Corruption is rampant in too many government and nongovernment institutions; sadly, those institutions meant to check on corruption have been significantly weakened. We must strengthen the institutions and we will do just that when the NDC comes to power from January 2025, God willing.”
“It is our duty to ensure that our sources of wealth are not given away to obscure entities shrouded in opaque deals. We must not arrive at a destination where our national assets and natural resources are treated by some as if they were assets of their own creation, to be willed forever to relatives and friends,” she added.
She called for the collective need for the charisma for in various aspects of national development.
“We must be passionate about justice, about the protection of our environment, about protecting our differently abled citizens. We must be passionate about institutions that are responsive to our collective needs. We must be passionate about stamping out corruption.”
“Let no one tell us otherwise, not even those who have so alienated themselves from reality as to be impervious to the truth—the truth of women delivering on the floor, of children waiting for a benevolent person to advance much-needed vaccines, of young children learning in dangerous circumstances; of teachers threatened and parents intimidated from their core functions of caring for their own children; of those who can no longer afford healthy and once generally affordable meals euphemistically called ‘face the wall’ and ‘kofi broke man’, or of elderly citizens who must picket for their own money. What is that?” she added.
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Story by: Joseph Henry Mensah | univers.ug.edu.gh
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