A recently birthed coalition, Arise Ghana has declared that it'll organise a large demonstration on Gregorian calendar month 21, 2022, to demand higher from the ruling New loyal Party (NPP) government. At the maiden group discussion of the coalition on Wednesday, could 25, 2022, the leaders expressed vexation over the economic hardships, worsening economic conditions, Draconian taxes, state capture and land grabbing yet because of the high price of fuel within the country. the insistence that the govt. is step by step creating Ghana a failing state, Arise Ghana has demanded among alternative things a right away reduction in fuel costs through the scrapping of unhealthful fuel taxes corresponding to the sanitation levy.
The coalition conjointly demands that government shouldn't solely withdraw E. I associated forty-four} and a finish to the land grabbing of the Achimota Forest Reserve, however it ought to also repeal the Electronic group action, Levy. Speaking at a conference in Accra, Mordecai Thiombiano, General Secretary of the cluster same it plans to stage an enormous demonstration next month to emphasize these demands and plenty more. “…we want to announce for the information of all Ghanaians, that we tend to shall be embarking on a mammoth demonstration on the twenty-first of Gregorian calendar month 2022 within the town of national capital to emphasize these demands,” he stated. Mordecai Thiombiano added, “We, therefore, invoke all Ghanaians who need to check an amendment in the affairs of our beloved country to return come in their numbers and be a part of US on the streets of Accra for this historic protest.”
scan the total press statement below: MAIDEN group discussion BY “ARISE GHANA” to handle important problems with POLITICAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE TO OUR expensive NATION. Wednesday, twenty-fifth May 2022 smart morning, girls and Gentlemen of the press. we have the honour of hospitable you to the current maiden group discussion of “Arise Gold Coast”, a coalition of patriotic, conscientious and anxious Ghanaians drawn from varied political parties, as well as the Peoples’ National Convention (PNC), the Convention Peoples’ Party (CPP), the Ghana Union Movement (GUM), the nice Consolidated well-liked Party (GCPP), the All People’s Congress (APC), the New loyal Party (NPP), the National Democratic Congress (NDC), various Civil Society Organizations, the media, the artistic arts industry, Driver Unions, Traders and voters from all walks of life.
Distinguished friends from the media, “Arise Gold Coast”, is AN merger of activists who through support and nationalistic mobilization, will look to guide a crusade against the continual misrule, misdirection and maladministration of our expensive nation Ghana by today’s duty bearers. we tend to are determined to unrelentingly champion the common reason behind the Ghanese people, offer a voice for the voiceless and smartly seek reforms that may originate the required amendment within the socio-economic, politico-social and general eudaimonia of the Ghanaian citizenry. girls and gentlemen, we've returned to some extent in our nation’s history wherever to stay silent is not AN option. this can be thus because to be silent is to encourage the continual triumph of evil. to stay quiet over this state of affairs is to encourage the continuous slide of our country into the abyss.
selecting to not discuss the present state of affairs suggests that being complicit within the in-progress state capture and also the sacrifice of our collective future on the altar of instant gratification. we tend to clearly cannot afford the choice of remaining silent. Economic hardships Friends from the media, there are hardly enough words to explain the tough economic realities of Ghanaians today. Fuel costs keep rising at the pumps each day, with its concomitant result in transport fares, prices of food and general merchandise and services within the country. the value of fuel in Gold Coast nowadays remains one amongll|one amongst|one in every of} the very best in Africa. As a result of this, the gap between Kwame Nkrumah Circle and Kaneshie, prices the normal man in a Trotro, Ghc3 as we tend to speak.
Today, the distance from Madina to Kasoa needs a transport fare of Ghc12 even publically transport. One requires a walloping Ghc200 to travel from the national capital to Tamale, a distance that used to price the commuter Ghc100 within the year 2019. rate of inflation continues to gallop at AN dire rate and stands nowadays at 23.6%, the very best in eighteen years, thereby spiral weekly hikes in costs of foodstuffs. A recent survey by railroad line TV that was printed on Sunday, twenty-second May 2022 revealed that an Olonka of Maize which sold out for GH12.00 solely last week, currently sells for GH15.00 this week, whereas a sack of maize which sold for GH450.00 only last week, now sells for GH650.00 this week. In a similar vein, a sack of yam which was mercantilism at GH350.00 last week is currently mercantilism for GH450.00 this week, whereas a box of tomatoes that up to now was sold-out at GH1000.00 last week is that this week going for GH1,200.00.
From this market survey which was done over an amount of only 1 week, it's clear that the price of living on the Gold Coast nowadays is at a time high. With the Government’s much-touted Planting for Food and Jobs program remaining a monumental failure, let alone the ever-increasing cost of agricultural inputs and mechanization services, the threat of food insecurity looms ever larger on us than before. The purchasing power of the normal Ghanese has quick deteriorated thanks to the intolerable price of living thereby inflicting many hardships on Ghanaians.
Things are unceasingly obtaining worse by the day without stopping in sight. Worsening Economic Conditions Distinguished friends from the media, the economy continues to wallow within the doldrums, with all economic indicators nose-diving whereas the Government appearance helplessly. The Ghanian monetary unit’s free-fall continues intense as a result of the failure of the state to translate its rhetoric into action. Today, the Cedi trades at concerning Eight Cedis, fifty pesewas to the US Dollar. the continual depreciation of our national currency against its major mercantilism partners continues to scrub away the profit margins ANd in most cases, the capital of the many businesses and traders who rely on forex exchange to import very important merchandise into the country. this case has aggravated the dire rate of inflation the state is presently experiencing. Even more worrying is the alarming rate of joblessness and despair within the country, particularly among the youth. Today, the speed of the state has up to an incomparable high, having affected from 6% in the year 2017 to a staggering 13.5% as of 2021. Indeed, our expensive nation is presently in a very deep economic mess.
The country has lost access to the international capital market thanks to our unsustainable debt position. Our debt has raised to new and unsustainable levels from GHS120 billion cedis to over GHS391.9 billion cedis solely within the last 5 and 0.5 years. this implies that at a minimum, this government alone, since 2017, has additional a walloping Ghc271.9 billion to the debt stock, with a piece of this going into consumption. Debt to GDP quantitative relation has galloped from 56% in 2016 to concerning 80% as we tend to speak, while our debt service burden has affected from concerning GHS14 billion cedis as at Gregorian calendar month 2016, to a walloping GHS50 billion cedis.
This economic state of affairs is our worst performance within the history of this Fourth Republic and has worsened our credit goodness and dampened capitalist confidence in our economy resulting in our worst ever downgrades by esteemed sovereign credit rating Agencies corresponding to Moody’s and Fitch. merely put, our beloved Gold Coast is stone-broke and this can be a right away product of the unhealthy leadership, insensitivity, misplaced proprieties and gross economic misdirection of this Akufo-Addo/Bawumia administration. Draconian Taxes While wages of the Ghanese employee stay static, with most labour unions up in arms over poor wages in the wake of worsening economic hardships, the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government continues to impose killer and Draconian taxes on the already burdened taxpayer. The recent passage of the objectionable E-levy and its resultant implementation remains yet one more slap in the face of the Ghanaian people. ne'er in the history of our country incorporates a government behaved thus cussedly in imposing a draconian tax live on its citizens, despite loud public outcry. The government’s subsequent use of judicial shenanigans in an endeavour to defend the ineligible imposition of this E-levy remains yet one more clear demonstration of however desperate and callous they are.
State Capture and land grabbing THE plan to acquaint THE deceitful AGYAPA DEAL Distinguished friends from the media, one among the cardinal, however unfortunate legacies of President Akufo-Addo and Alhaji Bawumia remain the new levels of state capture we tend to are witnessing today. The follow of state capture below this government has assumed such dire proportions that the God-given resources of this country that are speculated to profit present and future generations are being used by solely several greedy families, friends and cronies in government today. one among the foremost bizarre, however brazen shows of state capture has manifested itself within the unpopular call of this Government to legitimate our natural resource in permanency below a racket dubbed “Agyapa” for the good thing about a get few.
It ab initio exhilarated our hearts that the Ghanese individuals spoke in unison against this organized heist known as “Agyapa” and compelled the government to suspend the same. we tend to are however mortified to notice that despite the general public outcry over this deal, the NPP/Akufo-Addo government is self-willed and is seeking to acquaint the “Agyapa” deal as recently declared by the Finance Minister. we tend to want to serve notice that this latest plan to acquaint the unpopular “Agyapa” Mineral Royalties deal shall be defeated, as we shall resist same with everything inside us.
GRABBING OF ACHIMOTA FOREST RESERVE LANDS girls and gentlemen of the media, we daresay that you, like several Ghanaians, were shocked by recent reports of a precise E. I one hundred forty-four that seeks to free parts of the Achimota Forest as not a Forest Reserve.
Well, because the oral communication goes, returning events forged their shadows, and so recent events have now given out the important motive and intent of the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia Government relative to the current matter of the Achimota Forest Reserve. As we tend currently know, President Akufo-Addo and his land grabbers in government were solely concealments behind a precise historical claim by one Owoo Family to show acceptable the Achimota Forest Reserve, nature conservation of giant environmental importance to any or all of us, among themselves. it's now emerged through some leaked parts of the need of the late Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, aka Sir John, a former chief executive officer of the biology Commission, that components inside the Akudo-Addo/Bawumia Government have already shared lands within the Achimota Forest Reserve among themselves. Indeed, parts of the lands are contained in the leaked can Document creating the rounds. this can be a tragedy of national proportions and we condemn it in no unsure terms. To imagine that the Achimota Forest, one among the few living nature reserves in Ghana, would become another subject of the state capture of President Akufo-Addo and his cabal of buccaneers in Government breaks our hearts greatly. Friends from the media, portions of the late Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie’s can reveal many prime lands, as well as those at the Achimota Forest and the Sakumono Ramsar web site that the late chief executive officer of the Forest Commission noninheritable inside a short stint in Government, that he successively willed to his relatives before his death. These revelations are however an example of the dimensions and magnitude of grabbing and plundering of state lands and alternative resources by President Akufo-Addo and functionaries in his government in a very manner reminiscent of the conduct of pirates on the high sea. Corruption and Abuse of the general public purse. Distinguished friends from the media, corruption remains endemic and pervasive below President Akufo-Addo and Alhaji Bawumia who have turned themselves into the best enablers and promoters of the same.
Despite being the foremost resourced government in Ghana’s history, this government has wasted all the new revenues that have increased them totalling about GHS500 billion in the main through profligacy and corruption. At the chance of sounding monotonous, it bears reminding that corruption scandals corresponding to the BOST scandal involving the ineligible sale of 5 million litres of contaminated fuel to dubious entities, the Australian Visa Fraud Scandal, the Galamsey Fraud Scandal, the PPA Contracts available scandal, the PDS scandal, the Missing Excavators scandal and also the most recent orbiter V Scandal stay unresolved instances of daylight heist that President Akufo-Addo has either turned a blind eye to or painted the perpetrators. All {attempts| attempts |tries} to demand responsibility for the utilization of Covid-19 funds continue to be suppressed by President Akufo-Addo who has effectively doused the flame of accountability. there's very little marvel thus that corruption is at an uncomparable high below this current regime. Even eerier is the proven fact that at a time once the majority of Ghanaians are suffering and experiencing agonising hardships, President Akufo-Addo continues to travel in ultra-luxurious and hyper-expensive personal jets at high expense to the already-impoverished Ghanese remunerator simply to satisfy his creature comforts. Conclusion Distinguished friends from the media, our expensive nation is on the verge of turning into a failing state. the middle will not hold.
Things are falling apart. It goes while not oral communication that the present state of affairs requires action. each we tend toll-meaning Gold Coastian is thus obliged not solely to talk against the ills of today, but conjointly to act currently to avoid wasting the soul of our nation. this can be why we in Arise Ghana are saying to any or all conscientious Ghanaians to arise ANd “Save Gold Coast Now”! Demands
1. we tend to demand a right away withdrawal of E.I one hundred forty-four and a finish the land grabbing of the Achimota Forest Reserve lands. Caution is herewith served to President Akufo-Addo and his land grabbers to remain their hands off the Achimota Forest lands. we tend to urge Parliament who are the representatives of the individuals to institute a bi-partisan probe into the matters regarding the sale of lands within the Achimota Forest immediately. This probe ought to be clear and every one person, be they past or gift government officials, civil or public servants, and all whose hands are splashed by this unblushing grabbing of Achimota Forest lands ought to be named, shamed and also the purloined Lands retrieved for the State.
2. we tend to demand a right away and total cancellation of the Agyapa Royalties deal as the same isn't in the national interest. we are going to ne'er sit reserved and permit several egoistic and greedy thieves in government to accept our mineral royalties for themselves and their families.
3. Also, we demand an immediate reduction in fuel costs through the scrapping of unhealthful fuel taxes corresponding to the sanitation levy (“Borla tax”) of ten pesewas on every litre of diesel and petrol. we tend to believe that this is done, and can offer some respite to suffering drivers and Ghanaians as a whole.
4. Additionally, we demand the immediate repeal of the objectionable E-levy Act, which is nothing but naked theft of the meagre resources of the group by the wicked Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government. within the lightweight of the preceding demands, “Arise Ghana” shall hold a Public Forum in the returning days to clarify these vital matters of hefty public interest. lot importantly, we want to announce for the data of all Ghanaians, that we shall be embarking on a mammoth demonstration on the twenty-first of the Gregorian calendar month 2022 within the town of the national capital to emphasize these demands.
we tend to thus invoke all Ghanaians who need to check an amendment in the affairs of our beloved country to return come in their numbers and be a part of us on the streets of Accra for this historic protest. this can be the primary of a series of protest actions that we shall unrelentingly be holding across the length and breadth of the country with the aim of conveyance enough pressure involved on the insensitive, corrupt and incompetent Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government to act within the best interest of Gold Coastians. girls and gentlemen, Ghana must be saved now. And this must be done by you and I. we've had enough of the hardships government keeps inflicting on us; Enough of the broken promises; Enough of the naked theft of state resources;
Enough of the vanity of power; Enough of the state capture; Enough of the culture of impunity. we tend to all have a job to play in the struggle to avoid wasting the soul of our beloved country. The time to act is now! could God bless our homeland Gold Coast and build her nice and robust through your collective efforts. thanks for your attention girls and gentlemen. Signed, Comrade Mordecai Thiombiano- General Secretary, APC and leading Member of Arise Ghana (contact No.; 0279781055) Comrade Duncan Amoah-Executive Secretary, COPEC Ghana and leading member of Arise Ghana (contact no.; 0243246570) Comrade Bobie Ansah- journalist and Leading member of Arise Ghana (contact no.; 0243123620) Comrade Mensah Thompson- Convener, ASEPA and leading member of Arise Ghana (contact no.; 0542120628) Comrade Osei Kofi Acquah, National Youth Organiser, CPP and leading member of Arise Ghana (Contact no.; 0243388633) Comrade Ishaq Awudu, Communications Director, PNC and leading Member of Arise Gold Coast (contact no.; 0244947573) Comrade Kojo Gold, General Secretary, GUM and leading member of Arise Ghana (Contact no.; 0244782025) Comrade Rex Omar- Musician and Leading Member of Arise Ghana (contact no.; 0556569304) Dzramado Selorm Dramani- President, out of work Association and Leading Member of Arise Ghana (contact no.; 0241384810
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