Nduom to challenge ‘Better Ghana Agenda’ on Tuesday

Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom will, at this month’s press conference on the “Agenda for Change” on Tuesday 23rd February 2010, talk about what President John Evans Atta Mills should tell Ghanaians at this year’s state of the nation address.

Dr. Nduom will challenge some ideas put out there by the government and also make contributions that will help to achieve the Better Ghana agenda.

Answering questions during last month’s press conference, Dr. Nduom promised that this month’s event, to be held at the Boardroom of the Coconut Grove Regency Hotel, will be on change within the Convention People’s Party (CPP). He told media men and women there was the need to assess the CPP on whether the party was ready to change to meet the challenges of modern-day politics.

He has, however, decided against that theme this month. This is because the party has entered a critical time in re-organization. A Task Force has been formed to work to make the CPP a better party than it has been in the past. Dr. Nduom wants to allow the Task Force enough time and space to work.

Dr. Nduom does not want to do anything that, as he put it, “will be misinterpreted” because the party is under internally-induced stress. The party needs more unity of purpose at this time and space for it to show the world that the leaders are together and that its people are ready to fund the party to success.

Edwumawura will not comment on the party till June 2010 when re-organization at the polling station level is supposed to be completed.

It is worth noting that in November and December of 2009, Dr. Nduom held press conferences on the need to change some provisions in the 1992 constitution. Chief among the recommendations he made were the need to keep parliamentarians in parliament as law-makers and not ministers of state and also the need to elect Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Chief Executives (MMDCE’s).

Government subsequently set up the constitutional review committee to receive suggestions from the general public as to which provisions need to be reviewed in the constitution.

Dr. Nduom has since sent his contribution through the Attorney-General.