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Press Release
NPP
December 07, 2015
THE PRESIDENT MUST HALT
THIS WICKED, INSENSITIVE CHRISTMAS GIFT TO GHANAIANS
The John Mahama-led NDC Government has, through the PURC,
presented the long-suffering people of Ghana with yet
another wicked and insensitive present just when Ghanaians
are bracing themselves for probably the worst Christmas in a
generation: a more than 60% increase in the price of
electricity and water.
This is sheer wickedness! It is evil, uncaring, reckless and
absolutely unacceptable. It is the highest level of
insensitivity ever witnessed by Ghanaians under the Fourth
Republic, and certainly just before Christmas and in a year
that Ghanaians have known nothing but untold sufferings and
hardships.
After the several failed promises to fix DUMSOR, and
astronomical increases in tariffs, including a 52% increase
in electricity tariffs barely five months ago in July, the
NDC government has now slapped another 59.2% and 67.2% hikes
on electricity and water tariffs respectively. It means
that, for a household that spent about GHS100.00 a month on
utilities, your bill is now up over GHS160.00.
This will be about the eleventh increase in electricity
tariffs and the ninth in water tariffs since March 2012.
And, at every hike, we are told the same lie to pay more to
receive reliable and efficient supply of water or power.
This is insulting, annoying and simply a terrible way to
treat your own people.
The people should not be made to pay more for receiving less
of any amenity. The people simply cannot afford it and must
not be forced to pay for something that they cannot afford.
We should not be made to pay for this.
Cost of living is high, cost of production is high,
businesses are collapsing, people are losing their jobs, the
rate of inflation is running away leaving the value of
incomes lower and lower behind. The people of Ghana are
dying from economic and social hardships that were easily
avoidable if Ghana had competent management of the economy
by a government of integrity.
Ghanaians can no longer be forced to suffer more for the
incompetence and corruption of this John Mahama-led
government. The NPP is saying NO to this habit of the NDC
government to continue passing on the cost of badly running
the economy to the suffering people and businesses in Ghana.
We want to send this caution to the Government that it
should pause, listen and put a complete hold on this wicked
60% or so increases in the cost of utilities. It should not
go ahead with it because it is not affordable.
We wish to issue a responsible and necessary caution that we
would, on behalf of the suffering masses of Ghana, take any
legitimate action possible to stop these evil rates of
increase in the cost of electricity and water from being
visited on the people and businesses in Ghana. It should not
happen.
Ghanaians deserve to know that this Government is attempting
to unduly burden them also with the cost of the recent
misguided acquisition of the power barges at several times
what it would have cost to fuel existing power generating
plants.
For instance, we have information that Government abruptly
aborted the competitive tender at the GNPC for the supply of
fuel for the Karpower Barge. We are also informed that even
though in the competitive bidding process, some other
companies offered as low as $2 million for the supply of
fuel, another company charging over $6 million more for the
same volume of fuel ended up being rather the one awarded
the contract through inexplicable sole sourcing. Is this
what the people are now being asked to pay for?
We call on the Government to immediately halt the increases
in electricity and water bills, review it and come with a
plan that makes sense.
We also demand that Government immediately stops all the
corruption-induced procurements in the energy sector that
has only short-term benefits but places huge, long-term
costs on an already fragile economy.
Ghanaians have suffered enough. It must end.
…Signed…
Freddy Blay,
Ag National Chairman, NPP
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EC BUDGETS $230M FOR NEW VOTERS
REGISTER Kenya did same for $95M
Statesman, Dec
10, Ghanadot - Credible information available to the
New Statesman indicates that the Electoral Commission
has prepared a budget of $230 million for a possible
compilation of a new biometric voters register for the
2016 general elections. .More
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COP21: African
campaigners demand compensation for effects of global
warming
Independent, Dec 11, Ghanadot - African
campaigners are demanding compensation for the huge
damage being inflicted on the continent by global
warming – a problem that has been caused by the rich
countries but will hit poor nations the hardest.
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'Kufuor, Ghana's most
successful leader'
Ghanaweb, Dec 09, Ghanadot - Ghana, since
adopting constitutional rule in 1992, has had Mr Jerry
John Rawlings, Mr John Agyekum Kufour, Prof John Mills,
and Mr John Mahama as presidents in different
periods....In Mr Otchere-Darko's opinion, Mr Kufuor
stands out among the four. In a tweet to wish
ex-president Kufour well on his 77th birthday Tuesday,
December 8, 2015, the DI founder said Mr Kufuor’s
two-term presidency dwarfs that of all his
contemporaries. .....More
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Anchoring the future to the past, Kufuor
A republication
Commentary, Dec 10, Ghanadot -
On February 02, 2007, we published the following article
on President John Kufuor. This republication is to
wish him A Happy Birthday.........More
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