Pastor Kwabena Andrews
The General
Overseer of the Life Assembly Worship Centre at Odorkor, Christian Kwabena
Andrews, has held a press conference to outline the vision of his new political
party— Ghana Union Movement (GUM) — which will participate in the 2020 general elections.
Introducing his new political party on Tuesday at a press
conference held on the premises of his church in Accra, Pastor Andrews said his
new political party which takes its root from Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s ideologies had
come to liberate Ghanaians from the shackles of poverty and bad governance.
According to him, when voted into power he would operate duty-free
ports. And as a result of that, all Ghanaians exporting and importing goods to
and from abroad would pay absolutely nothing like what pertains in Togo.
He said when the country operated a free port, everything imported
into the country would be very cheap, while citizens of neighbouring countries
would troop to the country to buy goods and services which would lead to larger
markets for Ghanaian goods and services.
He said he would revive all defunct factories established by Dr.
Kwame Nkrumah while new ones would be created to provide employment for
Ghanaians.
He further indicated that he would build a gold refinery in the
country to refine Ghana’s raw gold to add more value to the mineral in order to
earn more foreign exchange.
The founder of the GUM
asserted that he would introduce a new educational system that would be based
on practicals and skills training, and it would be completely free at all
levels to churn out products with skills and ability to work for the progress
of the country.
He promised that when he wins political power, he would run the
country with not more than 70 ministers of state, while salaries, allowances
and ex-gratia for ministers, MPs and MMDCEs would be significantly reduced.
He also said he would build a teaching hospital in each of the 16
regions of the country and provide free accommodation as a retirement package
for members of the security forces.
“We have a lot of resources and money in the country but politicians in government are misusing them and they are only there to serve their own interests and not the interests of suffering Ghanaians,” he said stressing that his new party had been formed to change the status quo for the betterment of Ghanaians.
By Thomas Fosu Jnr
