The North America chapter of the NDC Professionals Forum has taken the New Patriotic Party to task over attempts to water down the impact of the NDC Running mate Prof. Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang on the education sector.
Less than an hour after she was announced as the running mate of the biggest opposition party NDC, the governing NPP organized a press conference to question her track record and suitability for the Vice Presidential role.
In a statement signed by its President Arnold Appiah, the NDC Pro-Forum North America accused the NPP government of being the one that has rather disrupted the transformational work that Prof. Opoku Agyemang began in the education sector in Ghana.
The group said the NDC running mate during her time at the Education ministry recognized the pivotal role of education to Ghana’s transformation.
“Ghana’s transformational agenda had positioned education as a pivot of the economy until the ‘con-gang’ of Akufo-Addo disrupted the gains made by our peerless Professor-running-mate who was the Education Minister in the last NDC government,” the NDC Pro-Forum North America stated.
The group is convinced Prof. Opoku Agyemang is the kind of leader required to steer Ghana out of the economic difficulties facing the country.
If the NDC is elected in the 2020 general elections, Prof. Opoku Agyemang would chair the Economic Management team that would be composed by the government.
The NDC Pro-Forum North America says the NDC Running mate would bring on board the vast experience required to steer Ghana’s post COVID-19 economy.
“As a professional wing of the great NDC, we are certain that Prof. Naana Opoku-Agyemang, as the leader of the economic management team in a post Covid-19 Ghana, will utilize her vast experience in education to propel a massive economic growth.”
“The enormous task ahead after victory and subsequently navigating a developing country like Ghana, needs someone in the caliber of Prof. Naana Opoku-Agyeman to supervise Ghana’s economic recovery, which focuses on the provision of facilities expected to improve the number of trained teachers, survival rates, reducing pupil-teacher ratios, schooling life expectancy and performance levels to ensure a solid and refined labour force which includes dedicated health professionals who will cater for the citizenry and particularly our labour force to, stimulate economic growth,” the group asserted.
The NDC Pro-Forum North America believes the current economic paradigm being pursued by the NPP does not serve the interest of the country.
“To the detractors of the NDC agenda, the NDC Proforum wish to emphasize that the task ahead of our dear country is not a ‘con-game’ and the manipulation of figures. We need a visionary government with leaders who understand economic trends and the premium on human resource development,” the group stated.
Story: Sena Nombo/Radiogoldlive.com
