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OPEN LETTER TO GHANAIANS: IT IS TIME TO TAKE ACTION!
Dear Ghanaian,
Seven years ago we handed the NDC a book called Ghana.
We retained a copy of the book.
The idea was that we would read this book together and
achieve national growth and development.
Seven years on, it seems Deputy Ministers are reading the
book backwards, Ministers have actually stopped reading the
book, the Vice President never even knew such a book was
handed over to them and the President is reading an entirely
different book.
The results are that the Government is moving in a direction
which is both anti growth and anti development.
When ordinary Ghanaians express concerns over the sorry
state of affairs the President either joins in the chorus of
lamentation or asserts his place in Animalis Regnum as a
dead goat.
The escapable truth is that this country, for every year the
NDC has been in office, has fallen deeper and deeper into
the abyss of irresponsible leadership.
Instead of finding solutions to the problems that confront
our nation, Ministers in their entitlement mentality sit
idle on the radio, calling for alternatives from opposition
parties and others who point out the obvious consequences of
their irresponsible actions.
Deputy Ministers have reduced their high offices to zoos
from which the Government from time to time can pick and
unleash rabid attack dogs unto Ghanaians who dare challenge
the intellectual quality of the Government's policy
prescriptions.
Appointments are dished out in a manner that defines
cronyism in super colourful terms.
Not too long ago the Government announced an end to the
energy crisis; such an announcement is of course welcomed.
But the energy crisis was only a symptom of the greater evil
we suffer, a crisis of leadership, a crisis of
responsibility.
There is no sense of responsibility in Government.
Deputy Ministers think it is their Ministers who must fix
the problems that confront the nation, Ministers think it is
the President who must fix the problems, the President
thinks it is Ministers and deputy Ministers and so when he
feels like he does a musical chair removing square pegs from
round holes and replacing them with even bigger square
pegs!...
The entire Government has been reduced to a laughable circus
of reshuffles reminiscent in fashion and in substance to the
childish game of musical chairs.
The only person not involved in this comedy is the Vice
President.
Not because he is any more responsible of his work, but
because he is entirely clueless as to the responsibility of
his office.
This collection of misfits running this nation cannot move
this nation in the direction and pace of development needed
to address the fundamental challenges we face and make us a
prosperous nation.
The NDC subscribes to a perverse ideology that has no place
in a modern world. This is the Party that shall be seeking
for your vote this year; the party that wasted an entire
seven years of looting the resources of the nation.
You have a duty to stop them. It is time to take action; to
campaign for a change in the direction of Governance. To
replace overpaid self-seeking incompetents with leaders who
put the future of our nation at the heart and mind of their
policies and not their pockets.
The NPP has a record in office. It is a record of real
positive change. It is a record the Government on
international platforms is happy to praise as the product of
good governance. That is the kind of governance Ghana needs
now.
Vote for a Government that would truly be accountable to
you.
Vote for the Government that was able to both balance the
books and bring our nation real development.
Vote for Nana Addo and the NPP.
Vote for change!
Kofi Opare Hagan.
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