The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has launched a new programme to enhance membership drive of the party.
Under the Membership Management System, the electronic database will enable the party to determine paid-up members, communicate with them, as well as ensure an efficient and transparent system of collecting party dues.
The database will also allow the party to manage and optimise its scarce human resources and groom them as parliamentary candidates.
The launch of the electronic database was done by Ms Samia Nkrumah, Chairperson and Leader of the CPP, on Monday at the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, to climax activities marking the 105th birthday celebration of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
Management system
Ms Nkrumah said the new membership management system database was a system that had placed the party among the most modern political parties in the world.
She urged members of the party to register on the new electronic database since no constituency executive would be deemed to have been properly elected if that executive member was not elected by registered members in the area.
She also urged Ghanaians who abhorred corruption to register with the party to restore the vision of economic independence so that the country could create wealth for its people.
Ms Nkrumah said it was only a genuine Nkrumaist government that could achieve prosperity for Ghanaians and eliminate poverty, disease and hunger so that Ghanaians would live in dignity and prosperity.
Bondage
She explained that the CPP government was the first to break the bondage of exploitative colonial rule due to its conviction that the black people were capable of governing themselves and expressed regret that Ghana was now begging for a bailout to save itself from economic crisis caused by those who colonised the country.
She said on the 105th birthday of the founder of the party, CPP was making a pledge to the nation that it was ready to govern the country once more.
Dr Vladmir Antwi Danso, a leading member of the CPP, said Ghana had become a big marketplace for political patronage.
He urged the government to not hesitate in implementing the good policies of Nkrumah such as the accelerated development and educational programme to speed up the development of the country, as well as provide quality education to the youth to enable them to fashion their own destiny.
Mr Kwaw Ansah, the famous filmmaker and owner of TV Africa, said the Ghanaian that emerged after Ghana’s independence was confident and, despite the odds, was determined to build his nation.
Presently, he said, the confident Ghanaian was now confused and desperate, ready to play second fiddle to foreigners.
Horizon
Mr Ansah, however, said there was hope on the horizon because those who toppled Nkrumah could not kill his ideas.
Mr Bright Akwetey, a former presidential aspirant of the party, said Ghana was gradually being recolonised through the use of law because Ghanaians no longer had control over their national resources.
He explained that foreign investors controlled 90 per cent of the revenue in the extractive industry with Ghana controlling only 10 per cent despite United Nations resolution urging governments to have sovereign control over their resources.
Mr Robert Engineer Woode, a CPP activist, observed that the price of cocoa for the past 50 years had remained stagnant around $3,500 a tonne while the price of VW Beetle car, a manufactured item, which was $750 then had increased many folds to around $4,000 recently.
Engineer Woode explained that it was only science and technology that could help the African continent to break away from the economic domination of unfair international trade and not privatisation as was being touted by the developed economies. He said such suggestions were aimed at depriving Ghanaians of indigenous viable ventures.
