A political science lecturer with the Kwame Nkrumah University Of science and Technology has supported a call for an Arab spring to register displeasure at current economic hardship been experience in the country. With a greater mandate as Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi-Boasiako has sworn he will never rest until the governing National Democratic Congress loses power. The 36-year old businessman elected last January, is promising to replicate in the Ashanti Region, a regime-changing uprising in Tunsia popularly known as Arab Springs. Speaking at a rally in the Ashanti Region, Mr. Antwi-Boasiako popularly called Chairman Wontumi, said people in the Region are disgusted with the capitation policy of the National Health Insurance Scheme piloted in the region. Under capitation, a pre-determined ration of health service will be allocated to each Ghanaian to be used within a certain period. The amount paid to the health service provider is irrespective of whether a person would seek care or not during the designated period. The policy, government says, is an attempt to cut spiraling cost of healthcare. The opposition, however have nailed the schemes problem as down to corruption and mismanagment of a once healthy scheme into a a crisis-ridden one facing imminent collapse. If [President] Mahama knows what is better for him, he will abandon this capitation [policy], Chairman Wontumi said. In opposition to this policy, he told the crowd, in a months time, I chairman Wontumi will call on one million to two million people in the Ashanti Region to join a big demonstration for about a month. He pleaded with chiefs in the region to ignore the President because he has nothing good to offer the region. He alleged the President’s brother, Ibrahim jets off to South Africa every week fueled with tax payer’s money. What the Tunisians did, We are going to do here in Ashanti Region; May Chairman Wontumi never rest until the NDC is overthrown he swore. Commenting on the issue, Dr. Richard Amoako Baah said is legal to organize an Arab spring; he said the current economic hardship gives support to such move if the organizers see the move as the only means to resolve the economic problem bedeviled the country. “Is possibly to do it if he want to do, am sure, because as things get hard people are more likely to respond to it. But the government is not in Kumasi. If he able to pull it down and the government is made aware that the public will not tolerate incompetent. It is possibly, there is nothing illegal about that. I don’t think is going to change much. Five years ago did we know something called Arab spring? is possible. We don’t know any solution to our problem. I don’t think it will change more but if he able to do it, will make the government sit” By Joseph Osei/ultimateradio106.9
Posted on: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 05:58:42 +0000
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