Political science lecturer with the KNUST support a call for an Arab spring
With a greater mandate as Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi-Boasiako has sworn he will never rest until the governing National Democratic Congress loses power. The 36-year old businessman elected last January, is promising to replicate in the Ashanti Region, a regime-changing uprising in Tunsia popularly known as Arab Springs.
Speaking at a rally in the Ashanti Region, Mr. Antwi-Boasiako popularly called Chairman Wontumi, said people in the Region are disgusted with the capitation policy of the National Health Insurance Scheme piloted in the region.
Under capitation, a
pre-determined ration of health service will be allocated to each Ghanaian to
be used within a certain period. The amount paid to the health service provider
is irrespective of whether a person would seek care or not during the
designated period. The policy, government says, is an attempt to cut spiraling
cost of healthcare. The opposition, however have nailed the scheme's problem as
down to corruption and mismanagment of a once healthy scheme into a a
crisis-ridden one facing imminent collapse.
"If [President] Mahama
knows what is better for him, he will abandon this capitation [policy]",
Chairman Wontumi said.
In opposition to this policy,
he told the crowd, "in a month's time, I chairman Wontumi will call on one
million to two million people in the Ashanti Region to join a big demonstration
for about a month".
He pleaded with chiefs in the
region to ignore the President because he has nothing good to offer the region.
He alleged the President’s brother, Ibrahim jets off to South Africa every week
fueled with tax payer’s money.
"
"What the Tunisians did,
We are going to do here in Ashanti Region; May Chairman Wontumi never rest until
the NDC is overthrown" he swore.
Commenting on the issue, Dr.
Richard Amoako Baah said is legal to organize an Arab spring; he said the
current economic hardship gives support to such move if the organizers see the
move as the only means to resolve the economic problem bedeviled the country.
“Is possibly
to do it if he want to do, am sure, because as things get hard people are more
likely to respond to it. But the government is not in Kumasi. If he able to
pull it down and the government is made aware that the public will not tolerate
incompetent. It is possibly, there is nothing illegal about that. I don’t think
is going to change much. Five years ago did we know something called Arab
spring? is possible. We don’t know any solution to our problem. I don’t think
it will change more but if he able to do it, will make the government sit”
By
Joseph Osei/ultimateradio106.9
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