Statement by PNC at the Northern Regional Consultative Forum

1 STATEMENT BY THE PEOPLE’S NATIONAL CONVENTION (PNC) Delivered by George Agulijam Date: 17 September 2015 Venue: Modern City Hotel, Tamale Mr. Chairman, Your Royal Highness, Excellency Sagnari-Naa; I stand here on behalf of the PNC to endorse the 40-year development plan process that was initiated on 4 August 2015 in Accra. Fifty-seven years after independence, giving birth to a development plan is not good news. The good news here is that after 57 years, we have seen NDPC come out with a structured, systematic and more importantly, a sustainable process of transforming this country. We believe in this process of preparing the blueprint, among other reasons because it is an inclusive process, and that is why we are all here today. We in the PNC have what we call a list of categorical imperatives and they are our discipline, our value system, our appetite for getting results and the national achievement coefficient. How hungry are we to get results in this country? This list of categorical imperatives by the PNC has some of the issues we believe we should concentrate on as we meet today in groups after the main session. The reason we believe that these are vital for proper transformation is the fact that we have studied development planning across the world and the Asian countries have been very successful not because of a long-term plan alone but their discipline, value systems and all that we have captured as categorical imperatives. We also believe that unity of purpose is very important for us to achieve this goal. NDPC has been instrumental in unifying political parties, cultural and religious groups and so on across the country. We think that in order to ensure that we dream and dream well and get to our chosen destination after 40 years, we need also to develop a sense of unity across the political spectrum. We have an equation which is the latest addition to the categorical imperatives and that is: all the political parties unified as equals in the NDPC‘s 40-year development plan process for Ghana. Thank you very much and God bless us all.

REGIONAL CONSULTATION ON THE LONG-TERM NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN Statement by the PNC ©NDPC, 17th September 2015