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[ 2014-12-22 ]
Gov’t, NDC know I told them the truth – Ivor General Secretary of the Convention People’s
Party (CPP), Ivor Greenstreet has told Starr news
that his blunt message about corruption, irregular
power supply and the uncaring nature of the
Government are truths well known by members of the
governing National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Greenstreet on Saturday December 20, 2014 told
President John Mahama and Vice President Kwesi
Amissah-Arthur in the face at the NDC’s congress
that: “You don’t care”.
“Nobody is feeling your better Ghana”,
Greenstreet shouted when he delivered his
party’s solidarity message to the NDC at the
congress at the Baba Yara Stadium in the Ashanti
regional Capital, Kumasi – stronghold of the
main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).
In the full glare of the President, Vice
President, former President Jerry Rawlings, and
thousands of leaders and supporters of the NDC, a
defiant Greenstreet said: “…Currently nobody,
I mean nobody is feeling your better Ghana.”
“Continuous ‘dumsor dumsor,’ corruption from
top to bottom, left right inside out, and all the
challenges you are facing [are] suffocating the
Ghanaian people.”
He added: “We would have thought that perhaps
you may have used an occasion like this to discuss
policies, programmes and solutions to all the
difficulties we are facing as a nation, but no,
you chose today to share your Christmas gifts with
each other.”
“Ghanaians are not happy at all. This
‘bronya’ is dry. Too too dry,” he told the
President, adding: “The most painful thing of
all is that you don’t care.”
“NDC continue, we are watching you, Ghana is
watching you, do what you want to do, we also know
what we’ll come and do…make sure you’ll
elect executives who will be able to steer your
parties affairs when you are in opposition. Boys
abr3.”
Leaders and supporters of the NDC and Government
have called Greenstreet names after his comments.
The President described the criticism as smacking
of “incurable selective myopia. Majority Leader
Alban Bagbin said the Lawyer was demon-possessed
and presidential staffer Sam George wrote on his
Facebook wall that the wheelchair-bound politician
needed “elevation to see the Better Ghana.”
Greenstreet later told Tawakalitu Braimah in an
interview that despite the attacks on him, he
believed the NDC and the Government know very well
that the things he spoke about are the truth.
“I spoke what most of they themselves know is
the truth and I hope that will spur them on to
greater things.”
He urged the President to interact with ordinary
Ghanaians to get a firsthand feel of the
frustration he talked about. Source - Starrfmonline
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