{"id":1233891,"date":"2022-10-25T11:57:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T11:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/25\/ill-do-my-part-for-nations-devt-evans-amoo\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T11:57:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T11:57:33","slug":"ill-do-my-part-for-nations-devt-evans-amoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/25\/ill-do-my-part-for-nations-devt-evans-amoo\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ll do my part for nation\u2019s devt &#8211; Evans Amoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/amoh.png\" alt=\"Evans Amoo \u2014 NDC Deputy  General Secretary hopeful\" class=\" bd-imagestyles-16\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\nEvans Amoo \u2014 NDC Deputy General Secretary hopeful <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>An aspiring Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Evans Amoo, has vowed to contribute to national development, if given the mandate.<\/h2>\n<p>According to him, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had led the country backwards, placing nation\u2019s democracy under threat. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government is preaching breaking the \u20188\u2019, yet the economy is in a mess. Inflation is 37 per cent while a huge chunk of the country\u2019s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) goes into debt servicing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo these are some of the things I have to come and help with, to uplift the image of the country\u2019s democracy and by so doing, improve the chances of my party,\u201d Mr Amoo said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Appealing party financing act<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Daily Graphic, Mr Amoo, who has officially filed his nomination, disclosed that one of his ambitions, if given the mandate as a deputy general secretary, would be to appeal for the Political Party Financing Act.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the country\u2019s laws did not allow external financing for political parties, therefore the party should be able to create means of generating funds to run its affairs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leveraging party celebrations<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Mr Amoo who is also a member of the party\u2019s national research committee, national communications team and national intercessory prayer team, said as part of his programmes to better develop the party, he would leverage the numerous party celebrations to garner support from the masses. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a lot of celebrations in the party and I think we have to take advantage of it to maximise support\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDepending on the way we position, programme and repackage them; something like June 4, December 31 and many others, we can make them lively to attract masses\u201d, Mr Amoo added.<\/p>\n<p>He also intimated that he would put in place an efficient and effective reward system at the grassroots of the party, particularly for constituency executives. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"65040d99fc37c77ef4baeb58-text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '771749920311523', {}, {agent: 'pljoomla'});\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script type=\"65040d99fc37c77ef4baeb58-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t\t\t  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\t  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\t\t\t  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\t\t  js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=342494502508165\";\n\t\t\t\t  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evans Amoo \u2014 NDC Deputy General Secretary hopeful An aspiring Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Evans Amoo, has vowed to contribute to national development, if given the mandate. According to him, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had led the country backwards, placing nation\u2019s democracy under threat. \u201cThe government is preaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1233893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}