[ 2010-08-24 ]

The Desperation Of The NDC
The NDC is so desperate to retain power in 2012
that they are trying so hard to create the
impression that they have achieved something since
assuming office. Yet, anytime they try to come out
with those phantom achievements, the analytical
acumen and the vigilance of Ghanaians are brought
on board to expose them.

We were in this country when Okudzeto Ablakwa
announced that the NDC government had created one
million, six hundred ghost jobs since assuming
office forgetting that they would be exposed by
their own violent foot soldiers in their demand
for jobs from the government. The most humiliating
aspect was when the Minister for Employment and
Social Welfare could not substantiate this claim
in parliament. It seems the NDC has not learnt
from that and they are still engaging in this
communist inferior tactics where the belief is
that ‘say a lie, repeat it and it shall be
accepted as the truth’. If they could use this
propaganda tool to deceive some of us in 2008,
then they should know that those people are now
awake and they are no longer going to fall to
these propaganda projects.

It is common these days to hear NDC Ministers,
MPs, Special Aides and Propaganda Secretaries talk
about 1000 classroom blocks built for schools
operating under trees within the 18 months of the
Atta Mills’ government. Though the Central Region
NPP has reacted to this deceit, the propaganda
continues unabated. What does the NDC government
take Ghanaians for? Do they see us to be so
gullible that they can churn out blatant lies at
any point in time for us to accept as the truth?
No, Ghanaians have gone past that era!

This piece is mainly meant to react to a statement
made by the Special Aide to the Minister of Trade
and Industry, Felix Ofosu Kwakye, on JOY FM’s News
File programme on Saturday, August 21, 2010.Before
I proceed, I would like to know the difference
between a special aide and a special assistant
that now even DCE’s have special aides under the
government of austerity?

On that JOY FM programme,Ofosu Kwakye made a
statement that the government had built 1000
classroom blocks for schools operating under trees
since the assumption of office by this Do-Little
government. Hon. Nana Akomea challenged that
statement by Ofosu Kwakye and Hon. Nana Akomea
made reference to paragraph 143 of the 2010 budget
of this government where the government proposed
to build 165 classroom blocks for schools
operating under trees in the entire country for
the year 2010 and therefore what Ofosu Kwakye was
saying was a blatant lie.

Ofosu Kwakye lied because if the target for the
year 2010 is 165 and he is saying that they have
built 1000 since assuming office then it means
that in 2009 the government built more that 800
classroom blocks for schools operating under trees
in the country. How could the government build
more than 800 classroom blocks for schools
operating under trees in 2009, the year in which
the NDC government had just assumed office and it
was in the same year that the construction sector
registered a negative growth and build only 165
for the entire country in 2010?

When Nana Akomea exposed Ofosu Kwakye, Ofosu
Kwakye shamelessly argued that that 165 figure in
the 2010 budget was wrong and that the target for
the year 2010 was 500. If that is the case, then I
would like to pose the following questions:

1. When did the NDC government realize that that
figure in the 2010 budget wrong? When did they
effect the correction and informed parliament as
well?
2. If the target for 2010 is 500, as Ofosu kwakye
claims, then is he saying that by the third
quarter of the year 2010 they have built all the
500 classroom blocks for schools operating under
trees so that this 500 will add up to 500 built in
2009 to make 1000?
3. How could it be possible to build 500 classroom
blocks for the year 2009 that this government had
just assumed office and the construction sector
registering negative growth in the same year?
4. Can Ofosu Kwakye tell the good people of the
Central region where the 212 classroom blocks
claimed by the Regional Minister to have been
built in 2009 for schools operating under trees be
located within the region?
5. How come that they built 500 classroom blocks
for schools operating under trees in the entire
country in 2009 and Central region alone got 212
out of that fictitious 500 and the other 9 regions
sharing 288?
6. Are they telling us that the situation about
schools operating under trees is worst in the
Central region than what pertains in the three
northern regions?
You see, anytime the NDC are caught in their
panties lying, they turn to deny their own prior
statements so that they can perpetuate the lies. I
hope we all remember when they tried to come out
with a New Kings James Version of their manifesto
after wining power and realizing that they had
made unrealistic promises to Ghanaians? It is in
the same manner that they are denying their own
figures in the 2010 budget. You see what
propaganda has done to the NDC? As Ofosu Kwakye
claims that the NDC government inherited about
4000 schools operating under trees, the Deputy
Minister for Local Government, Elvis Afriyie
Ankrah, also gives a different figure of 3000. Why
different figures? Probably we may have to excuse
them on the account that they lied their way into
power and that they must continue to lie to stay
in power. But fortunately, their cover is off and
Ghanaians will no longer fall for this cheap bait.
I would wish to place on record that these are
frustrated, lack-luster, visionless leadership
both at party and government levels who can
foresee their outright rejection and consignment
into the dustbin of irrelevance in the coming
general election in 2012.

The NDC should not forget that the NPP is well
structured to monitor them closely and expose
their lies. The NPP has polling station executives
in every community in the entire country who just
voted to elect the flagbearer and they are
monitoring the achievement of this government and
no where can this government lie to us about
projects.

NDC, you have been exposed and the good people of
Ghana are patiently awaiting election 2012 to show
you the exit.

Source - Richard Takyi-Mensah

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