The National Executive Committee
of True Drivers Union has alleged that some personalities within the governing New
Patriotic Party (NPP) are meeting drivers in some selected regions to
financially induce them.
The group says from what they
have gathered that the NPP wants to buy the votes of drivers to enable them win
the 2020 presidential election.
The Public Relations Officer of
the union, Yaw Berimah, told Nyankonton Mu Nsem on Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm that
the clandestine agenda has been branded as “Listening to drivers, knowing their
concerns and addressing them.
He noted that they are
astonished as to why a party which accused the opposition of soliciting ideas
from ‘common drivers’ is now after launching their manifesto seeking to know
the woes in the transport sector.
He has therefore admonished
members of the union to treat this invitation with impunity and the contempt it
deserves.
Meanwhile, the Greater Accra NPP
is set to meet commercial drivers at a durbar under the theme: ”Keeping the
relationship to consolidate our progress”.
The durbar is set to be held on
Thursday, November 26, 2020, at the Obra Sport.
But Yaw Berimah says the move by the NPP is hypocritical
because when the NDC came to drivers to solicit their opinions on policies,
they described them as a party lacking ideas.
But today, they want to meet
drivers and ask what we need. It is too late. The NPP sat in their rooms and
designed their manifesto. The NDC came to us and asked for our opinion and what
we needed to be done for us. The NPP mocked and ridiculed them. Today, they
want to meet us. What do they want to meet us for?”
He wants the NPP to use the
money for the organization of the durbar to repair the deplorable road at
Darkuman junction.
“The government is behaving as
if its army of goats have gone mission and searching for them in a hen-coop,”
he said.
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