An Open Letter To Ivor Greenstreet, Dr. Edward Mahama, Dr. Henry Lartey And Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom

Gentlemen,

This blog salutes all of you. It might interest you to know that there are many discerning Ghanaians, who say that seldom has our homeland Ghana faced greater danger, since it gained its independence in 1957, than the horrifying prospect ahead of it: the possibility of civil strife after the November presidential and parliamentary elections

They point to the intense rivalry between the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), and the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), and warn that if civil society organisations fail to encourage moderates in both parties to restrain the extremists in their midst, those violence-prone hardliners will plunge Ghana into a civil war, as sure as day follows night.

This must not be allowed to happen under any circumstances, as it will set our country back many decades - and shatter the hopes and dreams of millions of families and individuals across the nation: whose lives will be turned upside down if widespread violence erupts in Ghana.

The best way to prevent such a catastrophe from occurring is to present voters with a credible third party in the November elections - which will form a government of national unity made up of the best brains from all the political parties in Ghana.

Under such a regime, for example, Ghana will finally be able to build an affordable climate-change-proofed network of plastic roads - made from the simple technology of mixing melted plastic waste with bitumen.

Plastic roads remain pothole-free throughout their long lifespan (they last thrice as long as conventional roads), bear heavier loads than conventional roads, and are never washed away by flash floods because plastic is impermeable to water.

The NDC/NPP duopoly will never build plastic roads, because doing so will block a very lucrative avenue for kickbacks, from the well-connected and super-wealthy thieves, amongst our vampire-elites, who fund their election campaigns and other party operational activities.

If Nkrumahists could unite under the banner of their mother party, the Convention People's Party (CPP), they could offer ordinary people a credible alternative to the discredited NDC/NPP duopoly that has monopolised power since the 4th Republic came into being.

Gentlemen, you are all very capable individuals - with enviable individual track records. And without a shadow of doubt, you all love our country dearly - and want to see the transformation of Ghana into an African equivalent of the egalitarian societies of Scandinavia.

Ghana needs honest and caring leaders who will halt the siphoning off of taxpayers' cash into private pockets by "a powerful few with greedy ambitions" - to quote Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.

No shares in oil blocks off our shores that should go to the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), will be given out to private interests, instead, under such patriotic leaders, for example - which is what happened under both regimes of the NDC/NPP duopoly.

If revenues from the National Lotteries Authority are ring-fenced by a CPP government, could they not be utilised to fund the provision of well-designed and well-built  two and three-bedroomed flats, for ordinary Ghanaians, randomly selected from lottery ticket buyers to ensure fairness - whose  monthly rent will be regarded as long-term installment payments to purchase their flats over say a period of twenty years? Will that not create millions of proud homeowners across Ghana, I ask?

And there will definitely be no Smartys Management and Productions type of bus-branding rip-off scandals under such leaders either - because at all material times, it will be the national interest and the welfare of all Ghanaians, not the selfish interests of party carpetbaggers, which will decide priority projects beneficial to the masses of the Ghanaian people, that will be funded by government.

And since you are Nkrumahists, you will doubtless be open to adopting the best ideas from around the globe, and adapting them to spur Ghana's development.

And unlike the hard-of-hearing NDC/NPP duopoly, your regime will definitely listen, when patriotic individuals suggest that your administration ought to invite outstanding thinkers from around the world, such as John Farrel, the director of the U.S. based Democratic Energy Institute, of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, to Ghana, to meet with your government, to share ideas about giving millions of families and communities across Ghana energy independence, using solar power systems utilising rooftop solar panels, and concentrated photovoltaic thermal solar power generating systems with molten salts energy storage.

And as visionary followers of the polymath Nkrumah, your regime will no doubt also listen, when advised by patriotic individuals to look to Australia for solar companies, such as Zen Energy,  to partner Ghanaian companies - to contribute to the initiative to provide homes and communities across the country  with off-grid energy independence with rooftop solar power systems that have molten salt and other non-toxic storage capabilities.

And one is sure that under a CPP government the destruction of forests across Ghana by illegal loggers will be halted. Ditto the pollution of rivers, streams, groundwater and other water bodies across Ghana by illegal gold miners - because unlike the corrupt NDC/NPP duopoly your administration will never be beholden to the criminal syndicates behind those heinous crimes against Ghanaians.

Educated young people, who have read about the many achievements of President Nkrumah, such as the affordable housing projects initiated by his CPP regime, its free education and free healthcare initiatives, import-substitution industrialisation that provided jobs, etc., etc., want to know when you will unite the parties you lead with the CPP, so that the votes they will cast for candidates of the reunited CPP in the November elections, will not be wasted.

Gentlemen, when exactly will you reverse the parties you lead into the CPP? In doing so you will all be making great sacrifices for a noble cause: a return of the CPP to power again, to transform Ghana into an African equivalent of the egalitarian societies of Scandinavia.

Ghana needs you to do so soon - as it is only a CPP regime that will rescue Mother Ghana from the clutches of the discredited NDC/NPP duopoly. Thanks very much indeed  - and may God bless, protect and guide all of you, always.

Yours in the service of Mother Ghana,

 Kofi Thompson.