[ 2016-08-26 ]

It was our aim to embarrass parties – IMANI
President of policy think tank, IMANI Ghana,
Franklin Cudjoe has clarified why they analyzed
political party promises saying it was to broaden
political discourse and not to embarrass any
party.

“It was not intended to embarrass anybody at
all. In fact we did state that those were the
promises made so far. We were categorical that
apart from the PPP that has issued a manifesto,
most of the analysis were tracked between June and
August and all the statements, audio files,
speeches given, some were the IEA platform while
others on campaign platforms,” Franklin Cudjoe
added.

IMANI Ghana on Thursday released a report on
promises made so far by political parties which it
said only 18 out of the 247 promises collectively
made by the various parties were quantifiable.

Following the report, however, some of the
political parties including the opposition New
Patriotic Party took on IMANI Ghana.

NPP’s Deputy Director of Communications,
Anthony Karbo said “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.”

Meanwhile, Franklin Cudjoe speaking on Eyewitness
News defended their work.

He argued that “we are not saying that the data
source primarily was the manifesto, we were
categorical that these are promises made so
far.”

“…Unless people are saying these were not
said, they were said. And the promises indeed are
very interesting that is why we categorized them
into quantifiable, semi-quantifiable and
non-quantifiable. So we did not set out to
embarrass at all,” he added.

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Source - citifmonline.com

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