AHONKYERE NA DOUBLE-DOUBLE PETITION Mr President, we the Young Patriots wish to draw your attention to the hardships Ghanaians are facing under your leadership with this demonstration dubbed “Ahonkyere na double-double’’. Majority of Ghanaians are not able to afford three square-meals a day under your leadership and the standard of living of our people keep falling each passing day yet all we hear you and your appointees say is that the Better Ghana Agenda is still on course. At the beginning of the year, you declared this year an action year, and subsequently have been silent. We wish to enquire if the momentum with which the rhetoric you preached has been deflated by the harsh economic circumstances you and your government have imposed on the Ghanaian people. In view of this we the Young patriots together with many other Ghanaians are trooping to the streets in our numbers today to demonstrate against the astronomical increase in the cost of living in Ghana, the deliberate policy of frequent gas shortages, unbearable utility tariffs, the fast track return of Ghana to HIPC status through a strange appetite for unplanned loans/borrowings and the unmatched high levels of corruption of the NDC government under your watch. The energy sector since the beginning of your tenure has seen major retrogressions, amongst which are the frequent shutdowns of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) costing our dear country $1million a day whenever it is shut down. These frequent shutdowns have led to the crisis we experience in the country and also a brain-drain at TOR. Today workers in the energy sector particularly TOR, are moving to other oil producing countries in search for greener pastures. However your government continues to employ the services of Mr. Ato Ahwoi, Board Chairman of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Dr. Oteng Adjei – the Energy Minister and Mr. Alex Mould of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) who we know have shown gross incompetence in their various positions. We therefore are calling for their immediate dismissal. We are also demonstrating against the high level of corruption to which your Excellency has turned a blind-eye, such as the Ghc169, 000 (1.6 billion old cedis) Stan Dogbe Saga, Cadman Mills (your brother) weirdly contracting loans on behalf of Ghana, Peter Baker Homek, former Managing Director of Taqa working on the Aboadze Thermal Plant said that his company paid $1million to government appointees and your Excellency, to which you have been silent. Also we also want to know the whereabouts of the $300 million SADA money Vice President Mahama claimed he got from the United States of America (USA), the STX deal, the $3 billion loan from a Chinese bank, several of your appointees putting up houses after two years in office, the embargo that has been placed on public auction of cars at the port by your Deputy Chief of Staff, Mr. Alex Segbefia, the inflation of contract sums on classroom blocks being constructed since 2009 and the total mess at the energy sector. Furthermore, the current increment in the prices of utilities is absolutely unjustifiable taking in consideration the kind of unbearable hardship that Ghanaians already face. We are therefore calling on your government to withdraw this insensitive recent decision, because we have had over a total of 232% in the past two and half years. We hope your Excellency will study this petition carefully and address the various concerns enumerated by the Young Patriots and the ordinary man on the street. God Bless Ghana! Thank you. Signed RICHARD KWESI NYAMAH DANIEL NII KWARTEI TITUS-GLOVER JOHN KUMAH HOPESON ADORYE ASAMOAH GYAMFI MICHAEL AMPONG