News:
August 17, 2010
Members of Parliament drawn from the majority side of the House,(NDC) will meet with the President, John Evans Atta Mills to discuss issues relating to the agitations by the party’s footsoldiers.
MP for Akan constituency in the Volta Region, Hon. Joseph Kojo Ofori, who confirmed this in an interview on PeaceFM News@Mid-day, said he expects the meeting to fashion out ways of improving the living conditions of its cadres or footsoldiers.
For some time now, some irate National Democratic Congress (NDC) youth, who prefer to call themselves footsoldiers, have run amok seizing state properties, and in rather violent demonstrations, stampeded government into dismissing public officials.
The footsoldiers, who have seized public toilets, offices of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), as well those of the National Youth and Employment Programme (NYEP), have also agitated for the removal of some personnel of the institutions who were appointed by the erstwhile New Patriotic Party (NPP) government, and to be replaced with people loyal to the ruling party.
President John Evans Atta Mills, Vice Present John Dramani Mahama, and the IGP, Paul Tawiah Quaye, as well as some ministers of state, have on one occasion or the other, called for the unleashing of full rigours of the law on the perpetrators of such unruly acts.
In spite of these warnings from the highest echelon of governance in the country, the footsoldiers still continue to unleash mayhem across the country, to make their grievances heard.
The NDC MP for Akan Constituency reiterated their commitment to address the concerns of the footsoldiers and expressed the hope that the meeting with President Mills will be productive, adding that most of them (footsoldiers) need loans as start-up capital for business ventures.
Source: Peacefmonline.com