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President Mills' THE INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS Delivering On Your Promises: IEA GHANA The Institute of Economic Affairs, A Public Policy Institute IEA President Mills’ P.O. Box OS1936, Osu, Accra, Ghana. Tel:+233-302244716 / 0307010714 Ghana Fax:+233-302- 222313. Email:[email protected]. President Mills’ Website: www.ieagh.org THE INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC social Contract with the AFFAIRS A Public Policy Institute people of Ghana THE INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS IEA GHANA Delivering On Your Promises: President Mills’ Social Contract with the People of Ghana Commitments of President Mills during the 2008 Presidential Debates and Evening Encounter An Institute of Economic Affairs / Ghana Political Parties Programme Publication I The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), Ghana, was founded in October 1989 as an independent, public policy institute dedicated to the establishment and strengthening of a market economy and a democratic, free and open society. It considers improvements in the legal, social and political institutions as necessary conditions for sustainable economic growth and human development. The IEA supports research and promotes and publishes studies on important eco- nomic, socio-political and legal issues in order to enhance the understanding of public policy. Further information may be obtained from the Publication Officer: The Institute of Economic Affairs P.O.Box OS 1936, Osu Accra, Ghana Tel: +233-302244716 / 0307010714 Fax: +233 302- 222313 Email: [email protected] ISBN: 9988-584-87-3 ISSN: 0855-3238 ©2010 Copyright by The Institute of Economic Affairs Printed in Ghana. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be published, used or reproduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations in critical articles and reviews. Publication of this work signifies that The Institute of Economic Affairs regards it as a competent treatment worthy of public consideration. The findings, inter- pretations and conclusions of this paper are entirely those of the authors, and should not be attributed to the Institute of Economic Affairs or any organisations that support it. II CONTENTS Preface 1. An Evening Encounter with President Mills 1 2. Presidential Debate, Accra 30 3. Presidential Debate, Tamale 44 Index of Issues 60 III PREFACE The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) Ghana, seeks to promote the con- solidation of democracy and good governance in Ghana and West Africa. The IEA works at this through national and sub-regional programmes of advocacy for democracy in economic and political governance. Over twenty years, The IEA has initiated far-reaching processes of multi party democracy in Ghana, and carried out events of national cohesion and po- litical accommodation and accountability. Since the year 2000, The IEA has organised Presidential Election Debates ahead of each of the nation’s Presidential Elections. In each election year, these debates have provided Presidential candidates a platform on which to debate the policies and programmes that they believe will best serve the national interest. The Presidential Election Debates are gradually instilling an issues-driven approach to Presidential campaigns. The debates offer the electorate information on the policy direction of each Presidential candi- date’s manifesto, with which to make informed choices. The IEA has created yet another platform to enhance the development of an issues-driven approach to national elections and the establishment of accountable leadership in Ghana. This is the Evening Encounter Series, which was initiated in the year 2008. The Evening Encounters concept differs from that of the Presidential De- bates, in that while the focus of the Debates is the interaction between Presidential candidates, the focus of the Encounters is the interaction be- tween candidates and the electorate. These Encounters offered the four Presidential candidates, whose political parties had representation in Par- liament, an evening each of interaction with a cross section of interest groups. By providing a public forum in which each of the candidates can present their policies and be challenged by both the other candidates and members of the public, both the Evening Enounter series and the Debates serve to enhance the level of accountability demanded from Ghana’s potential IV leaders. This is particularly important with respect to the candidate who subsequently goes on to win the election. This publication provides a transcript of President Mill’s (candidate Mills as he then was) presentation and responses at the Evening Encounter held on 26 June 2008 as well as at the Accra and Tamale Presidential Debates held on 29 October 2008 and 12 November 2008 respectively. The IEA has also published transcripts of each of the Debates and each of the Even- ing Encounters of the other candidates separately. This combined publication focusing on President Mills recognises that the commitments that he made at each of the events constitute a contract that he and his Administration made with the Ghanaian people in exchange for their support. By publishing the transcript of these events it is hoped that the terms of this contract are not readily forgotten and that the public con- tinues to demand public accountability from its present leader. While this publication contains three distinct sections based on each of the events, it includes an index at the end of the document to assist readers to identify President Mills’ comments on various subject matters. We hope that you find this publication useful. Thank you. Jean Mensa Executive Director V 1. AN EVENING ENCOUNTER WITH PRESIDENT MILLS (insert picture - to be provided) Candidate Mills delivering his presentation at his Evening Encounter Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, I dedicate this presentation to my good friend and colleague Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata. I speak today with the aim that if anybody thought that jailing Tsatsu was going to lower my resolve, and dampen my spirits, they were wrong. I am going to go on. I am grateful to The IEA for giving me this platform to present myself and the vision of the NDC for a better Ghana when we assume office in Janu- ary 2009. We know, ladies and gentlemen, that Ghanaians are at this time concerned about the future of our country. They are worried about the harsh living conditions; they are also worried about the upsurge in crime and of course the dramatic growth in narcotic trading in this country. I share their con- cerns and as I go along, I will tell you how we intend to assure them that the future will be better. There are some who argue that the election should be based on a com- parison of the records of the various political parties and their candidates. We have no problems with this because we feel that if this comparison is fairly done the NDC will come out tops. And we are also certain that we will perform even better when we assume the reigns of government in January 2009. 1 My distinguished ladies and gentlemen, who here can deny that the elec- tion is about the leadership and qualities that the Presidential candidate will bring to bear on the state of affairs of this country? Who can tell me that leadership, character and decency are mutually exclusive? It is not for nothing that our electoral rules insist that the parties indicate who is going to be their Presidential candidate before the elections are held. Otherwise they would just ask the parties to go for elections and after the elections they will decide on who is going to be the leader of the party. I bring to the table my core values of truth, honesty and humility. I will lead a government that is decent, truthful, honest and caring, to mend the broken trust between elected officials and the people of this country. Due to political partisanship over the years, our country has become polar- ised. Indeed, if you do not belong to the ruling party, you are discriminated against. Let me say this, I Atta Mills will be President not only of the NDC but of all the people of Ghana. Once the elections are over we should all be united in a common cause with a common objective. There is no need to make any distinction. Ladies and gentlemen, I have said before that this country is not short of blueprints and plans for development. The problem is with implementa- tion, which is easily traceable to leadership. Sometimes we lack the po- litical will. There are instances where we have beautiful promises but we over-state the successes. Sometimes, even before policies are implement- ed or before they finish the implementation, government ministers rush to announce successes just to score cheap political points. Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, good governance means fairness. In- deed leadership must strive for the common good. I will not rig the econ- omy to benefit my relations, my family, my close friends and members of my party. Indeed those of us who subscribe to the social democracy theory believe that it is the responsibility of the government to take care of those who are underprivileged and marginalised because as you can see these fingers are not equal and we believe that we should be each other’s keeper. Those on the other side also insist that it should be the survival of the fit- test. They say we should have each man for himself and God for us all. We 2 consider this unacceptable. Even more unacceptable to us, is the statement that it is each man for himself and God for us, the selective few. My brothers and sisters, fairness is being gradually lost in our society. When we were in power, we implemented a policy where, if there were funds in the Road Fund, we would equally distribute them to contractors whom we owed so that they could keep their businesses on the road.
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