NDC BRIBES WOMEN WITH CLOTHS

Mrs. Asmah displays a piece of clothe purportedly being distributed by the NDC to women across the country in order to get their votes.

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By William Yaw Owusu

Tuesday December 4, 2012

A group of women calling itself New Patriotic Party (NPP) Women Elders has alleged that the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) is going around distributing free clothes to entice women to vote for them in Friday’s general elections.

The group which has NPP stalwarts including, Gladys Asmah, Ama Bema Busia, Cecilia Bannerman, Elizabeth, Ohene, Suzy Mensah among others said yesterday that the NDC’s purported distribution of the clothes and money are to “buy the conscience of women.”

Addressing a well attended news conference in Accra yesterday which was also explained in other local dialects, Mrs Asmah took her time to explain the modus operandi of the NDC as far as vote buying I concerned.

She said that in almost every constituency, the NDC has been distributing money, cars, laptops apart from clothes and other items and urged women not to be intimidated by the inducements.

“We have assessed the situation of women in the country and we believe that their interests would be best served under an Akufo-Addo Presidency.”

She said that the erstwhile NPP administration made life quiet bearable for women than the NDC administration and said the time had come for women to massively vote for the NPP to come to office to continue the good work.

She mentioned free maternal care, metro mass transport, MASLOC, school feeding programme, NYEP among others as some of the policy interventions introduced by the NPP to lessen the burden of Ghanaians especially women.

Mrs. Asmah said that the free senior high school being promised by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is real and urged women to vote massively for it to be implemented.

“We have studied and assessed all the messages and we think that what the NPP is presenting is persuasive enough to deal with problems faced by women. Women would have good reason to feel safer under the NPP.”

She urged women not to buy into the NDC’s propaganda that the free SHS would not be possible adding that “If they had done anything better they would not be going around to buy the electorate.”

Ms. Elizabeth Ohene said that “a lot of money is going around literally to buy our conscience but we will not allow ourselves to be induced.”

NDC’s Failure

Immediately the women elders finished their conference, the NPP United States also took the floor describing the NDC as “failing the people of Ghana and needed to be voted out of office.”

Flanked by Atta Krufi, NPP UK Chairman, Nana Agyei Yeboah who is the Chairman of NPP USA claimed that they have information that the NDC intends to cause mayhem if Friday’s results did not go their way.

He also said that corruption had been institutionalized under the NDC and they are paying huge sums to their cronies for no work done adding “A vote for the NDC is a vote to bankruptcy.”

Nana Agyei Yeboah said that the level of infrastructural development brought by the NPP government was unparalleled and said the NDC had borrowed more than all previous governments since independence put together.

He said it was unthinkable for President Mahama and his ministers to oppose the free SHS being promised by Nana Akufo-Addo and the NPP since majority of them including the interim President benefited from the free secondary school policy brought by Dr. Nkrumah.

“He (President Mahama) got everything free and he still want to prevent the up and coming from enjoying it. Nana Akufo-Addo and the NPP are determined to bring free quality education at the basic level for Ghanaians.”

He described the NDC as anti-business and added that their posture had stifled private businesses but the NPP would restore confidence in the economy adding “The NDC has nothing to show that is why they are going about bribing the electorate.”

“An administration that wants people to see a sheep as cow, that pays huge sums to cronies with no work done, that sacrifices the President’s health (President Mills), whose strategy to win elections is through rigging cannot be taken serious,” he said.