Politicians should stop the rhetoric and Focus the campaign on our needs- legon students
April 10, 2008
Students of the University of Ghana have been speaking to the Super Morning Show about what they want to hear Politicians campaign about in the upcoming Polls.
Speaking on the first SMS Roadshow launched at the University of Ghana, students outlined education financing, skills training, security and administration of Justice as some of the Key issues that they hope would dominate the 2008 campaign, instead of the usual trading of allegations on Political Platforms.
Many students suggested that they wouldn’t mind voting for any Party that articulates strategies on issues of interest to them, in spite of their own Party affiliations.
“The Political parties today even have their philosophies rooted in theories that do not relate to the needs of Ghanaians today. They need to back to the grass roots and base their parties on the people’s needs.”
Students also suggested that the Politicians were not focusing on these relevant issues because the media encourages meaningless hot debates just to get ratings instead of focusing discussions on development issues.
Asked how Politicians can be coerced to focus on problem solving discussions, many students called on youth leaders in Political parties to bring freshness into Political discussions and demand more from the body Politic.
Producers of the show say the SMS Roadshows are designed to take radio closer to the audience and to afford them the opportunity to call the shots in the 2008 campaign. The monthly roadshows would soon travel across the country.
Listen to the Roadhow on our audio on demand platform (photo gallery soon to be uploaded)
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The University of Ghana students are spot on. We need a group of selfless, dedicated, astute and morally upright generation of politicians to rule the nation.
That group, I believe, has not yet emerged. For now we have a group of crisis managers who are only experts in explaining away the many hydra-headed problems confronting the Motherland.
I cannot understand why a nation that is blessed with so many high-priced natural resources, cannot provide the very basic things for its citizens.
Even in the so-called plush residential areas in Accra like East Legon and the Trassaco Valley, water is a scarce commodity.
The road netwoks are terrible but the usual mantra the politicians sing is that “we are contructing roads.”
The suffering masses cannot afford treatment for the commonest of ailments that afflict them.
But in the midst of the dire need, the greedy elites keep buying more luxury for themselves.
I hope that at the next polls, a true leader emerges! Because our Motherland needs a true leader!
political parties will come and go and the people of ghana will still remain ghanaians. our political parties may collapse but the interest of the common citizen will still remain paramount.
i hope the voice of the students of the unversity of ghana shall be heeded to and all the forces that be to ensure that the poor in the society do not remain poor but graduate from the poverty into a state where they can be comfortable with the little they earn from their sweat.
in my view i think the student front should be well resourced and strengthened in order to raise and discuss issues pertinent and relevant to social development. branches of political parties in the tertiary institutions should serve as a force that will put government on her toes regardless of our affiliations. a force that is able to debate issues with political parties and find a lasting solution to the problems in the society.
the society at large should not be driven by our political affiliations and let us all be ready to listen to whatever political party, judge their credibility so we can vote on issues. for party politicing is causing us as a nation and as we grow we must move from this.