Failure to fulfill your promises could threaten Ghana’s peace and democracy – Gyampo warns Bawumia, Mahama

A Professor at the University of Ghana, Ransford Gyampo has stated that the failure of the political party that will win the elections, especially the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC), to fulfill their promises could threaten the peace and democracy of Ghana.

Prof Gyampo has therefore appealed to politicians to be mindful of the promises they are making to Ghanaians ahead of the 2024 general elections.

To him, whichever party wins the elections to form the next government will face severe difficulties because the conditions have not changed.

He explained that the level of hopelessness and despondency in the youth is monumental to the next and they are likely to accept the juicy promises being made.

But if the eventual winner of the elections fails to implement those promises, it will threaten the peace and democracy of Ghana because the disappointed youth will take the law into their hands.

“Whatever it is power will change hands, whether it is the breaking the 8 or not,” he said, but he added “the situation will have to be tough before it gets better,” he said on the Key Points on TV3 Saturday, August 17.

“A lot of effort will have to be done to rebuild Ghana, to regain what we have lost as a people, this calls for hard work,” he said while commenting on the no-fees stress policy of the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama.

Earlier, Prof Gyampo said that he was worried over the creation of the impression that there are solutions to all the problems of the youth.

If not managed well, he said, this may create more disappointments.

Around this time, he said, every cohort in the voting population would want to hear something about what can be done to help them.

“But realistically, it would take a lot of strenuous effort to properly rebuild what has been destroyed and regain what is lost. In this regard, young people must be made to know quite frankly that, given the challenges that lie ahead of us as a people, it would have to be tough before it becomes easier.

“We would all have to tighten our belts a little more, from whoever heads the country to the lowest rated citizen. From the topmost politician to the party footsoldier, all must brace themselves to endure a little more suffering, after which things would begin to ease up,” he said while reacting to the launch of the NDC Youth Manfuefsto in Accra on Monday, August 12.

The NDC youth manifesto has promised among others that there will be no fees for level 100 students in all the public universities under a Mahama administration.

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