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statement of NPP/USA on ..
UNITED STATES PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S VISIT TO GHANA
NPP-USA Public Relations Committee
June 22, 2009
Some functionaries of the NDC have began to circulate
erroneous charges against the executive team of NPP-USA that
it is planning to sabotage the visit to Ghana of United
States President Barack Obama by bombarding the US State
Department with false information. The charges are
categorically false, and they represent the desperation of a
party and a government having nothing to offer Ghanaians,
and utterly unprepared to govern. The executive team of NPP-USA,
however, wishes to make the following observations:
1. The USA Branch of the NPP, on its email group, allows
unfettered freedom of expression on discussions related to
Ghana’s development. Whatever individual opinions expressed
thereon, in this case, by a non-member of the executive
team, cannot be ascribed to the NPP-USA Leadership Team.
2. Given the NDC government’s obvious inaction on the
deteriorating economic state and the worsening security
atmosphere in Ghana, NPP-USA in fact appreciates President
Obama for going to Ghana since his visit on July 10,
represents the best economic activity by any government our
nation will have witnessed since the inception of the Mills
administration. NPP-USA, therefore, wants to go on record to
welcome President Obama to Ghana so that he can bear witness
to the atrocities that the do-nothing, out-of-control NDC
government is perpetrating on hard-working Ghanaian
citizens.
3. On July 10, President John Atta Mills will be sharing the
stage with another president with whom he shares a couple of
other characteristics. Both presidents are lawyers who
assumed their respective presidencies in January of this
year. The visitor is full of ideas, and has pushed through
nearly 16 major policies and legislation to constitute his
country’s answer to the current global economic crisis. On
the other hand, President Mills, the host is yet to initiate
a single, credible, substantive legislation or policy to
alleviate the economic plight of Ghanaians. In fact, in
spite of President Mills’ legal background, he continues to
preside over a shameful onslaught of civil and human right
abuses on fellow Ghanaians.
4. This new charge by the NDC is part of a grand design of
blaming the NPP for everything that goes wrong. This time
they are being proactive by establishing a scapegoat due to
their virtual certainty that their abysmal six-month record
threatens to embarrass them in front of a more progressive
leader.
5. The NDC’s need to plant a Mole in the discussion forum of
the NPP is a clear indication of its desperation. Members of
NPP-USA stand ready to share nation-building ideas if the
Mills administration would admit its ineptitude and ask for
bi-partisanship; it does not have to resort to stealing of
ideas by planting a Mole in a discussion group of NPP-USA.
Information obtained via a shameful mole planting on a
virtually public forum is a far cry from The Enquirer’s
claim of intercepting supposedly secret information. Again
there is nothing secretive about personal opinions expressed
on an Internet discussion forum.
6. The United States Embassy in Ghana is one of the largest
in Africa. Not only do officials there read the local
newspapers, watch television, and listen to the radio, they
customarily gather political information on every country in
advance of an America President’s visit. It, therefore,
perplexes the executive of NPP-USA that the do-nothing,
out-of-control NDC government believes the opposition party
in Ghana would be the source of country information for
President Obama’s visit.
7. Finally, if the do-nothing, out-of-control NDC government
is fearful of President Obama discovering the violence and
intimidation of political opponents by its functionaries,
President Mills can undo the damage by effecting an
immediate cessation of the shameful practices and issuing an
apology to the nation.
NPP/USA
June 22, 2009
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