IVOR GREENSTREET PROMISES FREE GOODIES FOR PwDs

The 2016 flagbearer of the CPP, Ivor Greenstreet, says the party has factored inputs and concerns of people living with disabilities into its Manifesto for the next government if he is elected as Ghana’s President in this year’s election. 

In this regard, a CPP government under his presidency will provide free healthcare, formal education and public transportation to persons with disabilities.

 In addition, a policy will be implemented to ensure that five per cent of both public and private employment is reserved for such underprivileged citizens.

 Mr. Greenstreet made these known when he addressed a rally of party faithful and Persons with Disability at Akomadan in the Offinso North Constituency in the Ashanti region.

The crowd at Akomadan had defied a downpour and waited for the CPP flagbearer who arrived late in the day.

 Mr. Greenstreet and his campaign team had earlier addressed a similar crowd at Ahenkro in the Afigya Kwabre North Constituency as part of his campaign tour of the Ashanti region. 

Addressing the enthusiastic crowd in the rain, Mr. Greenstreet identified with the problems of persons with disabilities, saying that even though such persons do not like to be in that condition, it might have been the will of nature that such should be the situation. 

He encouraged them not to be look down on themselves but rather believe in their individual natural abilities to assert themselves in their fields of endeavour to prove that disability is not inability. 

This has been his motivation as he pushes to be the first physically disabled President of Ghana.

 Touching on national development, the CPP flagbearer noted that Ghanaians have experienced the quality of governance by both the NPP and NDC but are still suffering from many socio-economic challenges including divisiveness. 

The CPP government under his leadership, Mr. Greenstreet assured, will provide the best of governance comparable to that of Ghana’s first President, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to bring the much needed improvement in the lives of every citizen.

He said his government will give priority attention to policies and programmes that will modernize and sustain improved agricultural production through ready market and easy access to marketing centres of farm produce as well as improved road network in the hard to reach farming areas.

 Mr. Greenstreet said also that a CPP government plans to invest substantially in wind and solar energy in addition to hydro power as short and long term solutions to the debilitating power supply in the country. 

He therefore appealed to the electorate to trust him and the CPP and vote massively for the party in the December 7 Presidential and Parliamentary elections.

 Mr. Greenstreet used the occasions to formally introduce the CPP’s Parliamentary Candidates for Afigya Kwabre North, Frank Opoku, and his counterpart for Offinso North, Kwaku Boateng, to the people to vote for them.