[ 2012-08-16 ]

President John Mahama cannot be trusted - NPP
The opposition New Patriotic Party says it has
been vindicated by Wednesday's address by
President John Mahama that the government has
nothing new to offer Ghanaians.

A statement signed by the party's General
Secretary Kwadwo Owusu-Afriyie accused the
president of using PR gimmicks to mask the
failures of the government.

“His 'humbly-sounding' pleas for peace, unity,
tolerance and patriotism 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.”

The statement further stated: “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.”

Below is the full statement
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 patriotism 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 Mahama 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

Source - MyjoyOnline

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