A group known as National Redemption Volunteers (NRV), which is made up of Independent minded Ghanaian youths have called on government to see to the welfare, development, and improvement of all Ghanaians, and not the people in government and politicians alone.
Addressing media, Mr. Emmanuel Ghansah the National Organizer of the group said the formation of the group by youths from all over the country is to seek to see to the plight and welfare of the ordinary citizenry.
He mentioned that government does not think about Ghanaians hence its refusal to even mention the mishappenings in the recent elections that took lives of six innocent youths across the country.
He said failure of the president, Nana Addo to even speak about it is said, and therefore called on the gallant youths to engage in productive activities that will change their lives, than falling prey to politicians who will use them for their selfish interests and abandon them.
The National Chairman of the group, Richmond Owusu Frimpong, mentioned that a sincere assessment of the current state of the economy will reveal a sharp moral decadence, increase in corruption, greed, indiscipline, crime, youth unemployment, substance and drug abuse, and police brutalities.
He said for a corruption- free country, the president Nana Akufo-Addo and the 8th Parliament should amend Article 21, clause 1c, which states the freedom of worship to outlaw death predictions in the name of prophecy.
He added that article 70, should be amended to hand over the appointment of the Electoral Commissioner, Commissioner for Human Rights and Administration Justice and the Auditor General to Parliament or a different body instead of the president.
He mentioned that article 71, should be amended to stop the payment of ex-gracia to members of a second term the national chairman of the group.
Article 78, clause 1, he said is needless and that it makes no sense to the appointment of majority of ministers from parliament, hence it is breeding grounds for the current chaos we witnessing.
Mr Owusu-Frimpong mentioned that article 202, clause 1, be amended to allow the police service to choose their own leader (IGP) or simply turn it into a succession of ranks to see the usefulness of the police hierarchy.
He questioned why the President should be the one to appoint the Chief justice? This he said was medieval and colloquial provision of the constitution, and for that matter, it needs to be changed.
Mr. Frimpong called on the police to hesitate in raiding n brutalizing the youths living in slams and ghettos, since most of them are not criminals, but the bad system of governance has put them there.
The group gave a 150-days ultimatum to government to address their concerns, failure to these will see them in their thousands, marching on streets to protest peacefully.
Mac Adom Otchere /Ahotoronline.com
