According to the PPP, until the NDC and the NPP show commitment to deal with the structural defects that encourage corrupt practices in the country, corruption would prevail.
A statement by the National Director of the PPP, Nana Ofori Owusu, said, for instance, that both parties, advocated the election of the Metropolitan Municipal District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) in their manifestos.
According to the statement, the NDC and NPP lied to the good citizens of Ghana only to gain power as they did nothing about the election of the MMDCEs, saying “they turned their backs on Ghanaians when they voted them into power.”
It added that some Ghanaians had advocated a change in the unbridled power of the executive.
The PPP observed that the NDC and NPP did not seem to concur with the millions of citizens who were craving for such a change, saying “Presidents Rawlings, Kufuor, Mills, and Mahama in this Fourth Republic have all missed the boat.”
It further stated that the “NPP presidential candidate, Nana Akufo Addo, during the 2008 presidential debates, made it known to Ghanaians that he was not in favour of the separation of the Attorney General’s office from that of the Minister of Justice, and would never lend his support to the campaign to elect MMDCEs either.”
It said President Mahama had also advocated a proposal that allowed him to nominate five persons, trim the number down to three with the assistance of the Public Service Commission for the people to vote for any of those people.
“I am sure they all take Ghanaians for granted,” Nana Ofori Owusu said.
The statement wondered why political parties asked Ghanaian citizens to vote for them, but caged them when it came to voting for the DCE to lead the development in the community.
According to the PPP, it was the MMDCEs who held the purse to push the development at the local level.
It added that this person should be someone that the people would have confidence in and vote him into power. This person should be accountable to the people, not someone appointed with manipulations from Accra.
In the view of the PPP, the NPP’s participation in the anti-corruption demonstrations was hypocritical.
“How would you root out corruption if you do not change the very structures that breed corruption?” he asked.
He said that showed that the NDC and NPP were both the same people, adding they wanted change of faces, not change that Ghanaians could feel in their pockets.
The PPP said Ghanaians needed an alternative to these two parties because both had failed to show good governance.
