Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By William Yaw Owusu
Thursday, June 09, 2016
A known National Democratic
Congress (NDC) loyalist, whose name became synonymous with confiscation of vehicles
under dubious circumstances during the reign of President John Evans Atta Mills,
has challenged Ghanaians to vote massively against President John Mahama and
his NDC government.
Carl Wilson, who was the former chairman
of the Confiscated Vehicles Committee (CVC) but had to be sacked by President
Mills over allegations of abuse of office and corruption, lambasted President
Mahama for failing the youth in particular, saying he (president) cannot go to
them (youth) to canvass for votes.
He told Rainbow Radio in Accra yesterday that the NDC government was
overseeing corruption, mismanagement, incompetence, insincerity and so President
Mahama did not deserve to be re-elected in November.
‘Ghana Move’
Mr Carl Wilson, who appears to
have deserted the NDC and formed a political movement called ‘Ghana Move,’ claimed
he rallied the youth to vote for President Mahama in 2012 but could not go back
to the same group of people to campaign for Mr Mahama this year because he had
failed.
''Can he confidently go back to
the youth and rally their support? If he can confidently do that, then he will
be the next president of Ghana. But the system is bad. The youth are
disappointed. I am not the one saying it,” he said, adding, “If things are
working just as the NDC claims, then why are the youth complaining?” he queried.
Carl Wilson, a former NDC
aspirant at Weija, said Ghana is no longer working under President Mahama and
called on the youth in particular to vote massively against the NDC government.
''The youth on the streets today
are hopeless. So we have to do something to lay the foundation for Ghana to
move again. And for Ghana to move again, we have to find a way to separate the presidency
from the dictates of any political party,'' Carl observed.
Fake Social Democrats
He said the NDC touts itself as
a social democratic government but has failed to implement pro-poor policies,
saying that the NDC “should be a party with policies that can address the
plight of the people, especially the young ones. However, this government has
failed to do so.”
Mr Carl Wilson said Ghana at the
moment needs a president who will be independent of any political party
control, and called on the youth to come together to support what he called “a
viable independent candidate” with policies that can transform the economy and
for that matter their lives.
He stressed that the NDC had failed as a social
democratic party.
He accused the Mahama-led
government of running a ‘tax government’ and noted that that had led to the
collapse of many businesses and killed the dreams and hopes of young people.
Confiscated Vehicles Puzzle
Asked about his role at the CVC,
Carl Wilson claimed he was sacked because of his fight against corruption in
the NDC government under the late President Mills.
He said, however, that his
removal from office had afforded him the opportunity to “find solutions to the
current rot in government, and the solution is: the youth of Ghana have to rise.”
Singing the national youth
anthem, he said the time had come for young people to rise and rise forcefully
because “we do not need a strong political party like the NDC and NPP.”
He said the time had come for Ghanaians
to reject political parties like the NDC and the NPP and push for an independent
presidency.
He added that the current
situation had compelled President Mahama to take decisions in the interest of
his party and not those of the voters who elected him into office.
“The future of this country is
in the hands of the youth who form 70 percent of the voter population; and that
tells me that the future of this country is in the hands of the youth,” Carl
Wilson underscored.
Mr Wilson also granted an interview to Metro TV on Tuesday and said Ghana’s
political system “does not have checks and balances,” noting that that had
adversely affected the fight against corruption.
“It has created the absence of
checks and balances in the system; that is making it difficult for whoever
cheats as president to rule with the powers granted to him by the Constitution.
“So as I said, it is not per se
the one running but it is the system that we inherited which is the problem and
which is ineffective. That is the system that I will urge the youth of this
country to come together and say ‘enough is enough’ and then we find a solution
to elect an open president as the president of this country.”
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