[ 2016-08-25 ]

Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party, Anthony Karbo

Our promises are attainable – NPP replies IMANI
The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), has
rubbished reports by policy think tank, IMANI
Ghana, suggesting that most campaign promises made
by the party are non-quantifiable, meaning they
cannot be measured in terms of cost and more.

The party insisted that, their much touted one
factory one district policy as well as other
promises they’ve made are possible hence “we
are sticking to them.”

Policy think tank, IMANI Ghana on Thursday,
released a report on promises made so far by
political parties ahead of the December 7 general
elections, stating that only 18 out of the 247
promises collectively made by the various parties
were quantifiable.

In relation to the NPP, IMANI Ghana said their
promise of reviving the NHIS and the much touted
one factory, one district were all not
assessable.

The report said of the 29 promises made by the
NPP, “only one is quantifiable, 14,
semi-quantifiable and 14 non-quantifiable.”

“Under governance, 8 promises were found, 3,
semi-quantifiable, and one interesting promise was
to create a western north region during his [Nana
Addo’s] tenure of office. What does the
constitution say about this promise? Article 5 of
the Constitution says that a commission of enquiry
must show the president that there is substantive
demand for a new region and a referendum conducted
must entail at least 50 percent of persons
entitled to vote. And once the vote is cast, the
pass rate must be 80 percent in favour of the
issue. So these provisions are to be satisfied in
order for the promises to fulfilled,”
Nii-Aponsah Deputy Head at IMANI in charge of
Political and Economic Affairs added.

But speaking to Citi News, the NPP’s Deputy
Director of Communications, Anthony Karbo, argued
that all their promises are attainable and would
fulfill them should they win power in December.

“I think that Ghanaians must take IMANI’s
analysis of the promises that political parties
and their leaders are making with a pinch of salt
because it is this same think tank that when we
proposed the free SHS policy, they came out and
disagreed entirely claiming it was an
impossibility. So I’m not surprised that once
again, elections are coming and up and they will
come to say that the one factory one district
policy we promised is an impossibility.

There is nothing that is impossible except for
incapable men.”

Anthony Karbo also said the NPP will not back
down on its promises and took on IMANI for making
such claims.

“On what basis is IMANI even talking about one
factory, one district policy document? Have they
sighted the NPP manifesto? So this is empty noise
from IMANI. Ghanaians should cross their fingers,
wait until the NPP launches its manifesto and then
you can get a full detailed understanding on why
we think that this is not just any type of policy
but this is import competition industrialization
and that is what we are leading to job creation
and that would open up the rest of this country to
a lot of employment which is a major issue,”
Karbo added.

Source - citifmonline.com

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