DFP WON'T USE LAW ON CAUSING FINANCIAL LOSS (PAGE 17)

THE Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) has said that since it is a freedom-loving party, it will not use the law on causing financial loss against anybody when it comes to power.
“Our aim is to teach peace and practise peace without retaliation,” Dr Obed Asamoah, the Founder of the party, said at a rally at the Hohoe E. P. School Park in the Volta Region.
He said the DFP was a party that signified peace, tolerance and unity which were needed to move the nation forward.
He lamented that the country’s farmers, who represented 60 per cent of the population, were still poor because they had not been properly treated by the NPP government.
“The way the poverty eradication programme is being treated is not the best. Unless you are a member of the ruling party, you do not benefit from any incentives,” he claimed.
He said the DFP would subsidise farm inputs such as fertilisers to enable farmers to produce cheaper foodstuffs and thereby reduce the over-dependence on foreign foods.
For his part, the flag bearer of the party, Mr Emmanuel Ansah-Antwi, said governments since independence had failed the nation by neglecting the agricultural sector.
He said since a greater number of the population were farmers, subsidising agricultural inputs would go a long way to reduce poverty.
He said the Volta Region lacked industries and a tertiary institution and said there was the need to establish an agricultural university in the region.
The flag bearer expressed the hope that when the DFP won power, it would widen the tax net and utilise national resources judiciously.
The party had early on held separate rallies at Kpassa and Nkwanta in the Nkwanta North and South constituencies, respectively, where it said it was going to introduce a green revolution to boost agriculture.
At Hohoe the party leadership paid a courtesy call on the chiefs of the Gbi Traditional Council, led by Togbega Gabusu VI.
Togbega Gabusu advised them to tolerate one another and be at peace with other parties.
The DFP’s MP aspirant for the Hohoe North Constituency, Mr Benedictus Mordzinu, a teacher, was introduced to the people.