Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mustapha Gbande has urged all appointees to make it a point to visit their grassroots.
He says the NDC government will fail if appointees fail to move from Accra to the hinterlands to explain what they are doing in the various sectors of the economy.
To him, he has come to understand that sitting in Accra and talking on radio has no impact on the very people the various policies and programmes affect at the grassroots level.
“We don’t want the party to be rocked by needless distraction, Kwabena. We want more ministers to the ground to work. They should go to the grassroots and work. I have been on Eric Opoku’s neck, I have told him that if he does not go to the grassroots all his agric policies will fail.
The Cocobod conversation, if we don’t go and meet the farmers, our policies will fail. Let the farmers know the state of affairs at Cocobod. When you sit on Accra radio and speak English, they don’t understand, the people at the grassroots level don’t understand our kind of English. So if Eric Opoku is touring, and because there are rumours that he wants to be president, we should say that there is trouble in the party? What kind of needless distraction is that?”
