Intra-party wranglings waning confidence of electorate — Agbozo

Intra-party wrangling in political parties are reducing the confidence of the electorate.  Political parties have, therefore been charged to work hard to win back the confidence of the electorate by eliminating the needless wrangling and restructuring their organisational systems.

The Leader of the Ghana Evangelical Society (GES), Rev. Prof. Enoch Immanuel Amanor Agbozo, who made this call, said: “The sum total of it all is that political parties and politicians in Ghana have created, made and established parties and politics as instruments of corruption, robbery, and malfeasance, and machines for the transfer and takeover of all national assets, resources and finances, state enterprises and national institutions.”

At a press conference organised in Accra last Friday, he underscored the need for political parties and politicians to embark on a house cleaning exercise to sanitise the process of good governance in the country.

He said politics played a vital role in development, thus there was the need for “all barriers to national development, created by politicians to be done away with by critically upholding policies that will sanitise the system.”

Rev Agbozo said the politicisation of national issues had created a system of abuse and ineffective governance and administration.

He alleged that politicians had established their political parties as instruments of “corruption and robbery” for the transfer of and takeover of national assets into the hands of wicked people and groups.

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The GES leader claimed political parties and politicians had mechanisms in place that put the governance of the country in the hands of evil, wicked and corrupt people and groups, whose parochial interests had kept the nation on its knees.

Those corrupt and negative tendencies, he said, affected the progress and prosperity of the country and should, therefore be done away with.

The way forward, according to him, is for political parties to groom a new generation of politicians who will be God-fearing and accountable to the people.

He noted that the philosophy of political parties must not be based on foreign ideologies that did not resonate with the Ghanaian situation.

The structures and systems that have been created by political parties and politicians to drain the nation of its rich resources, he said, must be removed to make way for a just and transparent system.

Rev Agbozo also said political parties needed to look for genuine means of funding their activities instead of turning to foreign sources. That, he said, was to avoid situations whereby foreign funding agencies infiltrated the country’s governance process.