Former Executives, Heroes of NDC broke and dying of poverty – Former National Communications Officer, NDC

Former National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Solomon Nkansah has revealed that former executives and cadres of the party are now poor and finding it very difficult to keep their lives together.

Bearing it all out in a media interview on a Kumasi local radio station, Ultimate FM, the former NDC Executives observed that a few years after leaving office as executives and the NDC kicked out of government, it has not been easy at all.

He says his checks reveal the larger NDC members are suffering and only a few who enjoyed some appointments under the regime are doing okay.

Citing his own situation and other former national executives, Mr. Nkansah noted he regrets the situation and commended Dr. Kwabena Duffuor for promising to enact a scheme that will support persons who have fallen on the bad sad of life doing party work.

“I am ashamed for being a national executive and days or months after elections and every member of the NDC that you see his life has not been that good from national to the smallest person. Persons you see whose lives and situations are much better are the former appointees and what is the percentage of former appointees to the larger party” he questioned.

“Our cadres who fought the revolution, our cadres who worked from those days without any stipends or allowances are dying as paupers and wrenched men and there is the need for us to bring dignity into their lives and if we can do that, we need to set up a fund that will cater for them” he lamented.

“Dr Duffuor’s pension scheme drive is to create that platform for the party’s rank and file to come to appreciate that indeed our political party has changed towards us so we must also change towards it you cannot run political parties on a haphazard basis it is a business on its own”, he explained

“It is the more reason why we need a change of focus and attention, if we continue to do the same things, we will get the same results and it’s the reason Dr. Duffuor must be given the opportunity to turn things around”. He said.