GCPP mourns with flood victims

The Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) has stated that the penchant for blame game is destroying the nation. The party has, therefore, asked Ghanaians to eschew blame game, especially for what befell the nation on Wednesday.

Floods hit Accra and the GOIL filling station at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle exploded. The lives of over 100 people were lost and others were injured.
“We should take out the blame game from the disaster because this is what is destroying the nation,” Dr Henry Lartey, leader and Chairman of GCPP, told the Daily Graphic when he visited the Kaneshie Market Complex. He urged politicians to focus on how to find lasting solutions to the perennial flooding in Accra.

Three-day mourning
Dr Lartey expressed his support for the three-day mourning declared by President John Dramani Mahama and said it was in the right direction.
He said the disaster should be a wake-up call for Ghanaians to be proactive and build structures that would stand the test of time.
He indicated that the GCPP and its policy of domestication was not about insults and the destruction of what had already been built.
He said politicians should refrain from tagging everybody in the country as corrupt, as it did not augur well for nation building.
He said what it meant was that everybody in the country would be deem as corrupt and any new government would also be regarded by the international community as corrupt.

Proactive action
Dr Lartey said the GCPP believed in proactive action and the late Dr Lartey helped various governments to build the Kpong Dam and launch the Operation Feed Yourself programme that brought food to the tables of many Ghanaians.
He said politicians had politicised the power crisis in the country so much that most had forgotten to educate Ghanaians about their responsibility and the need to handle electricity with care.

Undermining
The leader of the GCPP said if Ghanaians had been educated about the advantages and disadvantages of electrical power some of the disasters in the country could have been avoided and wastage in the power sector reduced.
Dr Lartey lamented that what politicians were currently engaged in was using ‘dumsor’ to undermine and bring government down instead of being proactive in finding lasting solutions to the crisis.