Emmanuel Ansah-Antwi is the Democratic Freedom Party's presidential candidate for the December election in Ghana
By William Yaw Owusu
Monday October 20, 2008
The Democratic Freedom Party yesterday launched its manifesto with a promise to use what it calls “zero waste” to solve the sanitation issues of the country.
“We would introduce a system called ‘thrash to cash’ and do not be surprise when your neighbour steals your rubbish under a DFP administration because it will be as good as money,” Emmanuel Amah-Antwi, DFP presidential candidate said.
They also used the occasion to formally introduce Patience Ami Ameku, a former District Chief Executive for Kadjebi (1988-1993) as the running mate of the party’s flag-bearer Emmanuel Ansah-Antwi for the December poll.
At the launch of the manifesto at the DFP headquarters at North-Kaneshie in Accra, Mr Ansah-Antwi said “this is our time to make a significant difference in the lives of our people as we cannot continue to defer the developmental challenges and needs of the people to the next generation”.
“We need to turn the page on the policies and programmes of the past and bring fresh ideas to give new direction to the country we all loved.”
He said “in the area of agriculture we have indicated clearly and practically, how we can increase production, leading to an increase in the income of farmers and ultimately leading to an improvement in their welfare and living conditions”.
Mr Ansah-Antwi said elsewhere, other countries prioritized agriculture to develop their economies saying “we can do it here, provided we adopt the right policies”.
“We believe the phenomenal increase in cocoa production has largely been due to subsidies and support, provided to that sector in a variety of ways including the application of fertilizers and other chemicals.
“The DFP will use the ‘Green Revolution’ to develop the rural areas and the cascading effect of this strategy is its developmental linkages to urban planning and development and the overall development of the country.”
He promised the DFP’s resolve to pursue information communication Technology by establishing what he called a national data-base to ensure an accelerated and integrated approach to governance.
Introducing Mrs Ameku as his running mate, the DFP Presidential Candidate said “the DFP believes that women have a role to play in the development of the country. We have to support them to get to the national front”.
“The problems of the country persist because we have excluded the women in our political discourse.”
In her acceptance speech, the DFP running mate said “the DFP is part of the crusade to place women at higher levels”.
She said the DFP has demonstrated that it knows the concerns and aspirations of the people saying “we have a genuine vision to help solve most of the problems of the country.
Dr Obed Yao Asamoah, the life Patron of the DFP said the party is in the race to change the culture of politics by deepening good governance.
He said a DFP administration would promote political tolerance and strengthen institutions to fight corsuption.
He said the party which is well organised is going to emerge victorious in the December poll saying “organisation would determine everything and not noise making as we are witnessing in nowadays”.
He urged the parliamentary aspirants of the DFP to explain the party’s manifesto to the electorate saying “Go to the grassroots and canvass them”.
Bede Ziedeng, General Secretary of the party who explained how the DFP intends to bridge the developmental gap between the northern and southern part of the country said “we will empower farmers up north in the same way that the counterparts down south have received from cocoa production.
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