[ 2016-11-10 ]

Mahama has made us slaves: Ivor
The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC)
has made most Ghanaians slaves in their own
country with the kind of international trade
agreements it has signed, Ivor Greenstreet,
presidential candidate of the Convention
People’s Party (CPP) has said.

According to him, one typical example of a trade
agreement signed by the government that, in his
view, has put Ghanaians into captivity is the
Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).

The EPA is a scheme to create a Free Trade Area
(FTA) between the European Union (EU) and the
African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states. It is
a response to continuing criticism that the
non-reciprocal and discriminating preferential
trade agreements offered by the EU are
incompatible with WTO rules. The EPAs are a key
element of the Cotonou Agreement, the latest
agreement in the history of ACP-EU Development
Cooperation.

Accordingly, the Government of Ghana has signed an
interim EPA agreement with the EU, thereby
granting exporters duty-free access to the West
African country’s market.

However, Mr Greenstreet believed that this
agreement had made Ghanaians slaves in their own
country.

Speaking to a group of supporters of the CPP on
Thursday November 10, he said: “NDC, which is
claiming to be Kwame Nkrumah’s party, has signed
the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and that
Economic Partnership Agreement will always make
sure that we are slaves in our own country.”

“So I am telling you that if NDC comes to tell
you that they are for Kwame Nkrumah, I want to
tell you that they are a replica. You know when
you do something which is a replica, in a short
time the replica thing will spoil.

“So I am pleading with you, it is only the
Convention People’s Party (CPP), Kwame
Nkrumah’s party, which can rescue you and the
faith of all Ghanaians come 2016.”

Source - Classfmonline

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