When we celebrated the June 19, 1983 anniversary at the Prempeh Assembly Hall in Kumasi this year, we were told to educate the Youth especially the Young Cadres and other party members about the 31st December Revolution of 1981. So, here we go:
The country’s administration did not want to support the 31st December Revolution when it was launched by Chairman Rawlings and his Revolutionaries. The Ghana Bar Association rose to fight it by using the regular Courts to fight it and thought they would
succeed.
They failed because the Public Tribunals were set up by Military Decree so, the Revolution continued unabated.
The one indisputable anvil upon which the 31st December Revolution was launched
is progressive politics, a pro-people agenda which united 90% of true radical
Nkrumahists and ten (10) percent of reasonable patriots from the United Party, (I mean, the old United Party from the Busia stock NOT the recently formed United
Party led by Hon. Alan Kyerematen).
Our selfless devotion to the cause of the people continues unabated after all, the late Jerry John Rawlings knew that a Neo-colonial Apparatus could not defend a Progressive Revolution in 1981 and yet he launched it and we supported it and survived over seventy (70) coup attempts by nation wreckers in this country.
Therefore, the Party we suffered to organize since 1992 to have a firm structure on
the ground all over the country cannot be allowed to be destroyed by a few self-seeking and disgruntled so-called politicians who put their stomachs first before the Party.
We know them, they shift from Constituencies to the Regional and National levels, blackmailing innocent hardworking Party Loyalists and Cadres but it
did not work and will never work.
What the expanded Electoral College for Political Parties per the Supreme Court Ruling recently means is that we can never go back to the old days when the ordinary people were mere followers of leaders and had no role to participate in leadership.
The days where rural communities were pinned down to the position of everlasting dependance on the unfulfilled promises of politicians, the Sardine and Tinapa days of Sweet Tongued Members of Parliament are gone forever.
Frankly speaking, Parliamentarians are not
supposed to develop their constituencies, they can only lobby for the development
of their constituencies because they are only Legislators and not Development
Agents period.
This has changed in Ghana and l cannot fathom why it is so?
We have traveled a very long way but the struggle continues unabated and we are prepared to take Ghanaians through the process in their interest.
Written by Clement Sangaparee, United Cadres Front, Obuasi East
