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REMAIN IN THE GUTTER ALONE, NPP
WON’T DESCEND INTO IT WITH YOU
Thursday, November, 19, 2015, was a sad day in our nation’s
history. On that day, the Ghanaian people saw a most
unbecoming sight: the President of the Republic, John
Dramani Mahama, launched a tirade of insults, abuse and
attacks on the leadership and membership of the New
Patriotic Party, without any justification.
One would have hoped that President Mahama, whilst
campaigning in the Volta Region, would have done his
possible best to shed off the incompetency tag Ghanaians
have come to associate him with, and rather show to
Ghanaians his so-called “impressive” track record in office.
But, No! He chose to use the platform to insult the NPP, in
the forlorn hope that the NPP will respond in a
disproportionate manner, and thereby enable him to run away
from his abysmal record of governance in office.
We are sorry to disappoint you, President Mahama. We will
not descend into the gutter with you, where you are
comfortably, but strangely, languishing in of late.
From all indications, it is evident that President Mahama
prefers to concentrate his attention on the NPP, as opposed
to telling Ghanaians what he and his NDC government have
used the GH¢200 billion in revenues, from taxes, loans,
export receipts, etc., over the last 7 years for. President
Mahama, clearly, is disappointed and sad that the focus of
Ghanaians is no longer on the NDC-induced internal
happenings in the NPP, but, rather, on his incompetence and
the spectacular failure of his NDC government in running the
affairs of the nation since 2009.
Unlike the government President Mahama is currently
presiding over, ours in the New Patriotic Party is one that
believes in the rule of law. We are governed by our
constitution, and we will not, for a second, shield anyone
who abuses our constitution and brings the name of our party
into disrepute, regardless of their position in the party.
The NPP, unlike President Mahama, will not provide a safe
haven, at the seat of Government, for corrupt officials who
have gleefully looted the coffers of the state.
Under President Mahama’s watch, we have a government that
has abandoned the teachings of the Public Procurement Act
and made sole sourcing of contracts the norm, not the
exception, as the Act mandates. The wanton abuse of the law
has brought in its wake a corresponding massive increase in
corruption.
Under President Mahama’s watch, the resources of the state
have been subjected to a system of “create, loot and share.”
We have seen bodies like GYEEDA and SADA, which were
ostensibly set up to stimulate growth and to provide jobs
for young people, become vehicles of corruption.
Our message to Mr. President is simple: We will not allow
you to joke your way out of your incompetence. We, in the
NPP, will not allow your government to run away from the
broken promises, the widespread corruption, rising levels of
unemployment, high cost of living, worsening conditions of
living of Ghanaians, erratic supply of power (dumsor),
hopelessness and despair you have plunged this nation into.
We will not engage in a war-of-words with you. However, we
will not shirk our responsibility of exposing you and your
incompetence, and the theft of scarce public resources by
yourself, and members of your administration.
The NPP will continue to remind Ghanaians about President
Mahama’s several promises, made in 2012, 2013, 2014, and
2015, to banish dumsor forever only for him to incompetently
turn around and tell us, again, that ‘dumsor’ will end in
2016. We will not relent in reminding Ghanaians about the
future of indebtedness; the future of hopelessness; and the
wretched future being needlessly created by a reckless
government under the leadership of the incompetent President
Mahama.
Lest we forget, we want to tell President Mahama to check
his mathematics, because he has, once again, incompetently
exposed his lack of knowledge of the subject. We want to
tell him that GH¢9.5 billion, representing the total public
debt stock left by President Kufuor, out of GH¢94.5 billion,
which is Ghana’s total debt stock, expressed as a percentage
can in no way be 41%, as he stated in Ho.
Surely, a live rabbit is better than a dead goat.
……signed……
Freddie Blay
Acting Chairman, NPP
REMAIN IN THE GUTTER ALONE, NPP WON’T DESCEND INTO IT WITH
YOU
Thursday, November, 19, 2015, was a sad day in our nation’s
history. On that day, the Ghanaian people saw a most
unbecoming sight: the President of the Republic, John
Dramani Mahama, launched a tirade of insults, abuse and
attacks on the leadership and membership of the New
Patriotic Party, without any justification.
One would have hoped that President Mahama, whilst
campaigning in the Volta Region, would have done his
possible best to shed off the incompetency tag Ghanaians
have come to associate him with, and rather show to
Ghanaians his so-called “impressive” track record in office.
But, No! He chose to use the platform to insult the NPP, in
the forlorn hope that the NPP will respond in a
disproportionate manner, and thereby enable him to run away
from his abysmal record of governance in office.
We are sorry to disappoint you, President Mahama. We will
not descend into the gutter with you, where you are
comfortably, but strangely, languishing in of late.
From all indications, it is evident that President Mahama
prefers to concentrate his attention on the NPP, as opposed
to telling Ghanaians what he and his NDC government have
used the GH¢200 billion in revenues, from taxes, loans,
export receipts, etc., over the last 7 years for. President
Mahama, clearly, is disappointed and sad that the focus of
Ghanaians is no longer on the NDC-induced internal
happenings in the NPP, but, rather, on his incompetence and
the spectacular failure of his NDC government in running the
affairs of the nation since 2009.
Unlike the government President Mahama is currently
presiding over, ours in the New Patriotic Party is one that
believes in the rule of law. We are governed by our
constitution, and we will not, for a second, shield anyone
who abuses our constitution and brings the name of our party
into disrepute, regardless of their position in the party.
The NPP, unlike President Mahama, will not provide a safe
haven, at the seat of Government, for corrupt officials who
have gleefully looted the coffers of the state.
Under President Mahama’s watch, we have a government that
has abandoned the teachings of the Public Procurement Act
and made sole sourcing of contracts the norm, not the
exception, as the Act mandates. The wanton abuse of the law
has brought in its wake a corresponding massive increase in
corruption.
Under President Mahama’s watch, the resources of the state
have been subjected to a system of “create, loot and share.”
We have seen bodies like GYEEDA and SADA, which were
ostensibly set up to stimulate growth and to provide jobs
for young people, become vehicles of corruption.
Our message to Mr. President is simple: We will not allow
you to joke your way out of your incompetence. We, in the
NPP, will not allow your government to run away from the
broken promises, the widespread corruption, rising levels of
unemployment, high cost of living, worsening conditions of
living of Ghanaians, erratic supply of power (dumsor),
hopelessness and despair you have plunged this nation into.
We will not engage in a war-of-words with you. However, we
will not shirk our responsibility of exposing you and your
incompetence, and the theft of scarce public resources by
yourself, and members of your administration.
The NPP will continue to remind Ghanaians about President
Mahama’s several promises, made in 2012, 2013, 2014, and
2015, to banish dumsor forever only for him to incompetently
turn around and tell us, again, that ‘dumsor’ will end in
2016. We will not relent in reminding Ghanaians about the
future of indebtedness; the future of hopelessness; and the
wretched future being needlessly created by a reckless
government under the leadership of the incompetent President
Mahama.
Lest we forget, we want to tell President Mahama to check
his mathematics, because he has, once again, incompetently
exposed his lack of knowledge of the subject. We want to
tell him that GH¢9.5 billion, representing the total public
debt stock left by President Kufuor, out of GH¢94.5 billion,
which is Ghana’s total debt stock, expressed as a percentage
can in no way be 41%, as he stated in Ho.
Surely, a live rabbit is better than a dead goat.
……signed……
Freddie Blay
Acting Chairman, NPP
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