An Open Letter To Mr. George Opesika Aggudey!

Opanin, I do not know exactly why you have opened a Convention Peoples Party (CPP) office of your own at Adabraka - near City FM. 

However, whatever it is that is your real motivation for this new project of yours, I do think it presents our great party with a unique opportunity. It is time we took a leaf from the charitable-works-page of religiously-oriented political organisations such as Hamas and Hezbollah - which help the poor by giving them practical help.

As we all know, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, who was a pragmatist and was definitely not an ideologue,  believed in a mixed-economy with space in it for private entities - but only those private business entities that were underpinned by an ethos of corporate good governance principles: and which were socially and environmentally responsible as well as good corporate citizens that paid their full share of taxes.

Opanin, why do we not help dispel the widely-believed falsehood that Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkruamh was a communist: who did not approve of private enterprise - by setting up an Nkrumah Centre for Market-based Policy Initiative Alternatives (NCMPIA) in your new CPP office? 

Such a think-tank will enable the CPP to formulate creative proposals that will result in the creation of an army of young micro-entrepreneurs nationwide - by giving them the tools and resources to help them change their personal circumstances.

During the campaign for the December 2008 elections, for example, I gave the website address of a DIY solar charity in the UK, which helps poor people in the developing world to make solar products, such as: solar mobile phone battery chargers; convert lanterns into solar lanterns, make solar LED light panels, etc. etc., to the crowd who represented the CPP in that election - and lost so miserably unfortunately.

Alas, they were not successful in those elections because the people of Ghana did not believe thst they had what it took to change their lives - for, in their view, they were more or less a mere carbon-copy of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), and the National Democratic Congress (NDC). 

Sadly, the CPP's leadership did not do anything with the online sources of practical help for the poor practical that this blog gave them - and a golden opportunity to get our party to help scores of disadvantaged youth to become micro-solar entrepreneurs was lost.

Opanin, can our great party not work with organisations such as "Mini-Farms" - which teaches farmers no-till farming methods with drip irrigation: a real boon at a time of global climate change when we are experiencing prolonged drought periods, nationwide? 

Ditto Sustainable Villages Africa (SVA), and Mohammed Yunis' Graemen organisation - both of which would have made a real difference in the lives of grassroots people, countrywide: and turn them into loyal CPP party-faithful, who will gladly and willingly spread the Nkrumahist message of the creation of a caring and sharing society in our country throughout our homeland Ghana? 

I would be happy to let you have a detailed list of many such organisations - as well as volunteer my time freely, and help in the setting up of the NCMPIA. 

Unlike most people who you deal with, I do not want any of your money - as I am content with my lot. I am beholden to no one - being a man, who though cash poor, is asset-rich (something I say humbly, merely as a matter of fact, not boastfully - and only to make a point, do please note!). 

Well, as we say in local parlance: "Over to you, Joe Lartey!"