A call has been made to the youth and the clergy in particular, to pray for divine intervention in the challenging times facing the country and its people.
Mr. James Gunu, Volta Regional National Democratic Congress (NDC) Secretary, in the call said the direction of the country was unclear with mounting socio-economic challenges and job losses continuing to mount daily.
He made the call while handing over a newly constructed two-unit urinary and 15 sets of exercise books, pencils, erasers, pencil shredders and confectioneries by a philanthropist to the Anyako Local Authority Basic School and pupils at Anyako, Keta Municipality.
Mr. Gunu, also a former Akatsi North District Chief Executive (DCE), said the Government had borrowed over US$40 billion foreign loans so far in two years with nothing to show for it and this he said must be a bother to all.
He said President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his Government appeared to have lost control of the economy with policy decisions failing to halt the general decline, with jobs losses coming daily and water, housing, transport, telecommunication and food bills soaring uncontrollably.
Mr. Gunu said kids as future leaders needed to pray for the country’s future with the support of the clergy, because they stood to bear the brunt of the current mismanagement including loans by the regime, which woudl take 100 years under total sell-off terms to pay, including the mortgaging of some natural resource reserves of the country to China for theses 100 these years.
The former DCE said the District Assemblies Common Fund, which was the local Assemblies’ main sources of rural development, were now coming in droplets. He noted that the massive schools, hospitals, road and electricity infrastructure expansions seen under Professor Mills and then John Mahama were now at total standstill.
Mr Gunu expressed worry that while Professor Mills’ regime for example practiced “a Father for all” administration, Akufo Addo is practicing the opposite, removing people from office on tribal and party lines, sowing seeds of national disunity.
He asked parents to vote for NDC in election 2020 to restore hope to the country and the future generation, adding, politicians when allowed can destroy the country and should be observed.
Commending the donor for his support, he urged pupils and parents to understand that those of the them who came from the Volta Region has no natural resources such as cocoa to rely on and therefore must pursue education to make it in life. Mr. Gladstone Stanley, the donor and a former pupil of the School established in 1947 by the Apostles Revelation Society, said he was moved when he last visited the school’s to see the level of deterioration and decided to help.