tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11648048.post8552190765499509459..comments2024-01-30T08:14:17.802+00:00Comments on The Trials & Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...of Ghana: As the Week Opens in Accra: Ghanaians and their Pontification of Peace; The Necessity of a Third Political Force for Ghana in the CPPEmmanuel.K.Bensah IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425904642659360906noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11648048.post-41730660018679205252008-12-16T16:58:00.000+00:002008-12-16T16:58:00.000+00:00Nana Yaw--great to see you on here again! Been a w...Nana Yaw--great to see you on here again! Been a while. Many thanks for your comments.<BR/><BR/>First up, I appreciate the prognosticatory qualities you have ascribed to me;-) I have merely deduced from a good number of conversations about who will win--and the latest antics of the incumbent on fuel and pair-trawling and salary arrears do not, in my view, augur well. Christine Churcher (Cape Coast) down on her knees (allegedly) does not help with the image of a party moving forward!<BR/><BR/>Secondly, it it true that I was not around during the NDC period. However, the family did come to Ghana in 1997, 1998 and 2000. Those one-month stays during those years were sufficient for us to obtain an impression of a country, which policies were going awry from the revolutionary/radical policies Rawlings and the NDC had forecasted. In 2000, we were in Ghana for the one month when we heard about the serial killings, which took how long before some poor guy was picked up as the culprit? Then there was the stench of corruption with "nifty-fifty" cups and whatnot party by Kwame Peprah, I believe? Ironically, it was during the NDC period that CHRAJ was set up, so sometimes the mind boggles on these things!<BR/><BR/>Thirdly, if a week is a long time in politics,then imagine what 3 years might be--so forecasts in favour or against any party (even if it is the CPP) might just prove futile!<BR/><BR/>Finally, if you look at what the CPP stands for--and I agree I did not give a justification for a CPP govt (only an emphatic plea for a third force) -- which is social justice, Pan-Africanism and self-determination, these are some of the three planks, which are time-tested policies that have worked , for example, in the building of Fortress Europe, with Pan-Africanism evidently substituted for "European federalism"; plus the right of self-determination being substituted for the protection of European markets/Common agricultural policy.<BR/><BR/>Although it is common knowledge that the NDC comprises CPP elements, I still believe that the veritable CPP elements should have gone back to the mother party, for Rawlings' party is NOT the CPP and never can be. As such its pretensions to the philosophy of the CPP might hold some truth, but is cosmetic.Emmanuel.K.Bensah IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18425904642659360906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11648048.post-40591050308117335082008-12-16T07:02:00.000+00:002008-12-16T07:02:00.000+00:00I see you raised fundamental issues about the soci...I see you raised fundamental issues about the socio-political ethic of the NPP, as well as made some predictions concerning the NDC and the CPP. I generally agree with what you said about the NPP, but something tells me you were not around during the 8-year reign of the NDC and that you have not had the time to discover that history. Your prediction(maybe you did not predict) about NDC winning the second round on Dec 28 may well be right. About the CPP coming into its own in 2012, HARDLY! And though you advocate for a third strong party, I did not read a reason why we need a CPP government. But I learnt a lot from reading this post.The Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11618359074984443470noreply@blogger.com