Accra, Nov. 13, GNA – Movement for Progress (MFP), a non-political movement, which seeks to provide a platform for the youth to engage leaders and influence national policies in their interests, was on Thursday, launched in Accra.
The movement, founded by Mr. Kofi Amoah, a renewed Ghanaian businessman, popularly known as “Citizen Kofi” would use social media as a tool to communicate the concerns of young people in all parts of the country to the leadership of the country.
Mr. Amoah said it was time for Ghanaians to have confidence, belief, and trust one another and unite to build the nation saying: “A nation whose citizens do not have confidence in themselves but rather repose a great deal of their confident and trust in outsiders will struggle to succeed.”
He said, “not trusting in one another, not having confidence in ourselves, was very costly, detrimental for the development of the nation and must not be sustained.”
Mr Amoah stressed the need for Ghanaians to develop a sense of trust and do business with each other to preserve the inherent advantages of activities to themselves.
“Presently, Ghana owes over UDS 40 billion in debt and most of the loan funds just passed through our economy without much significant impact but with huge profits to foreign contractors and their home nations from where most of the materials and consultants for the projects originate.”
Mr Amoah said Ghanaians must also have a mindset of change, embrace hygiene and orderliness as part of the initial building blocks of constructing modern civilization.
He called on the youth to exude a culture of kindness, love and stressed the need for public policy on healthcare, education, housing, and affordable utility bills to be designed to provide the minimum threshold to everybody in a manner that would not the public purse bankrupt.
Mr Saddick Adams, a leading member of the Movement said MFP had no intention of vying for political power at any point.
He said the Movement and its members were of the view that being in power was not the only way to cause a change in society, hence, the need for the youth who were the future leaders to come together to make the right demands from their leaders.
“What people do not realise is that politics is not just about political parties, politics is the discussion of everything around us, it is everything that affected our past, concerning our present and going to shape our future,” Mr Adams said.
He called on the youth to get involved in building the nation, bearing in mind that they had a responsibility to do their best to reshape the future of the country.
Nana Ama Akuffo-Kwapong, another member of the Movement, called for a national discussion on where Ghana was heading, not for the sake of the government but for the sake of the citizens.
She said MFP sought to ensure a country where leaders served the interest of their people, where there was access to jobs that created, invested, and empowered young people to reach their highest level of actualization.
Nana Akuffo-Kwapong called on the youth to get actively involved in governance, speak truth to power, and build their individual capabilities.
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