I’ll partner TUC for better workers salaries – New Force Movement founder assures

Nana Kwame Bediako, the founder of the New Force Movement, has said that if elected President in December, he will work with the Trades Union Congress (TUC) to improve working conditions for workers and combat corruption.

He stated that once the government paid workers fair wages and produced more jobs with at least a 20 to 30-year lifespan, no worker would be willing to risk his or her job for a bribe.

“Once you start to give value and people know they work for GH¢8,000 or GH¢10,000 that pays their rent, children’s fees, fuel and car, they will never want to lose that GH¢10,000,” the New Force leader said.

During an engagement with the leadership and staff of the TUC in Accra yesterday, Mr Bediako stated: “Now that workers are earning only GH¢1,000 or GH¢2,000, it is a do-or-die for them and their families.”

“Because the worker cannot survive, he does not care to lose his job because a crazy man does not care because he is crazy,” he stated. The engagement enabled the creator of the New Force Movement to promote his programs and vision for Ghana once elected President.

We’re promoting corruption

The New Force Movement leader, Nana Bediako stated that corruption remained in Africa mostly because most workers did not have improved working conditions. He stated that, unlike in Africa, “you do not hear corruption” after leaving the continent.

“In other parts of the world, I think they use more the word ‘deception’, and once there is deception, you are charged and you are going to prison. “In Africa, corruption is free because when you are wrong, they take you to the police station and the policeman will agree with you on how to move forward. So what we are doing is encouraging people, and this starts from the top,” he said.

Accomplishments

He contended that until Ghanaians had accountable and responsible leaders, and the people held leaders accountable for their stewardship, corruption would continue to thrive.

“Until Ghanaians ask their leaders where is the money and the resources, and what their taxes are doing for them, corruption will never leave us because it is like a disease that has no cure.”

The New Force Movement leader highlighted some of his successes, stating that as a young leader, aged 44, he had assembled a team of professionals and successfully completed numerous projects.

He claimed that he had already established an industrial hub that would produce well-paying employment and generate billions of dollars.“So, whether the government or the country likes or does not love me, I love you and I do not need your permission or consent.

“I will do it for you one way or another because I have the template, and this is what happens in the world when they gave chances to people like Rockefeller, Andrew Kennedy and Henry Ford who built America,” he said.

Dredging sea to Kumasi viable

Earlier, Dr Anthony Yaw Baah, Secretary-General of TUC, stated that Nana Bediako’s proposed flagship strategy to dredge the sea from Accra to Kumasi had been positively received by the country’s organized workers.

He believes that Ghanaians, including himself, “misconstrued” the suggested strategy in the past. However, Dr. Baah stated that he appreciated the policy after the New Force Movement leader, Nana Bediako paid him a visit to throw additional light on the concept.

“If you look at the river systems, when you dredge the Pra, Tano, Bia and the rest, it easily links to Cape Coast. And his point was that why should we use our roads to cart things?”

“We can actually use our river systems, once we dredge properly, the vessels can use it, and they can transport it from Accra to the north. God has given us a huge river that we are not using because many people don’t really understand that policy,” Dr Baah recounted.