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PRESS STATEMENT
NPP, August 16, 2012
PRESIDENT JOHN MAHAMA CANNOT BE TRUSTED
Wednesday, August 15, 2012:- Already, the New Patriotic Party
has been vindicated by our position that President John Dramani
Mahama offers nothing new and that he merely intends to use PR
gimmicks and media stunts in his futile attempts to mask the
failures of a government which has been characterized by
incompetence, lies, broken promises, economic mismanagement and
unprecedented corruption.
Like most Ghanaians, the New Patriotic Party is not at all
disappointed with this evening’s address to the nation by H.E
President John Dramani Mahama. We are not disappointed by the
“I-am-also-a-nice-guy” content of President Mahama’s speech
because we did not expect him to do anything better than to use
any such golden opportunity to market himself.
His call against “petty, name-calling and baseless personal
attacks” came after a similar promise to Church leaders that he
would take action against any of his appointees who breached his
still-sizzling decree against using insulting language.
In between these two loud calls, the President himself used the
insulting word “useless” against many decent Ghanaians whose
only offence was to offer an alternative opinion to his own
earlier rash decision to turn the new Presidential Palace into a
presidential cemetery.
In between these two holier-than-thou messages against insults,
a presidential appointee, the CEO of the Ghana Free Zones Board,
launched a baseless personal attack against Hon. Nana Akomea,
MP, NPP Communications Director. The President has neither
apologized for his own unpresidential intolerance and injurious
insult against Ghanaians who disagreed with him nor has he yet
taken any decisive action against the CEO of the GFZB.
His ‘humbly-sounding’ pleas for peace, unity, tolerance and
patriotisms are betrayed by his own track record of being the
second-in-command of a ruling party that has for nearly four
years of its four-year term engaged in the politics of
divisiveness, tribalism, baseless personal attacks, violence,
lies, deceit and propaganda. His nervous and shifty performance
Wednesday night on television and radio only betrayed the fact
that in President John Mahama we have a leader we cannot trust.
President Mills is simply not trustworthy.
If the President thinks he can use his short caretaker period to
hoodwink the Ghanaian people with such empty propaganda stunts
and self-promotion gimmicks then he better think again.
Ghanaians are wide awake and would not allow this four-year
record of gargantuan corruption, shocking incompetence,
shameless lies, and worsening economic hardships to be plastered
over by the spins and stunts of a man who has made a living in
PR. No PR gimmicks would fool the neglected people of Ghana.
It is ironic that the man, who ignored Ghanaian contractors to
travel abroad to bring in, first, Koreans and, then, South
Africans, to do the work that Ghanaians are more than capable of
doing, is now urging Ghanaians to be patriotic! The President
should first learn to practice what he preaches and also
apologise to Ghanaians for showing no confidence in them before
he admonishes our youth to start believing in themselves.
The policies of John Mahama as head of Economic Management Team
and Kwesi Amissah Arthur as head of Monetary Policy, only led to
unprecedented hardships, rising cost of living, falling cedi,
propaganda jobs, inflated cost of contracts, dubious judgement
debts and corruption-riddled mega loan agreements, mainly
championed by President John Mahama himself.
We will, once again, take this opportunity to urge President
Mahama to use his energies to focus on ensuring a peaceful, free
and transparent elections in December and, like a spare tyre,
take Ghanaians safely, even if gingerly, through this caretaking
journey until January, 2013, when we pray that the good Lord
shall stretch forth His redeeming Hands to rescue Ghana from the
hands of this failed government.
God Bless Ghana.
……signed……
Kwadwo Owusu-Afriyie
NPP General Secretary
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