Ghanaians have lost confidence in gov't -NDC

NDC deputy General Secretary, Baba Jamal has dismissed the performance of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) after barely two years in office as total failure.

According to him, majority of the country?s population has lost confidence in the Kufuor administration for series of blunders the government has committed so far.

?Having won the election so overwhelmingly, I thought our party would be buried for ever, however, the NPP?s performance has given us a lifeline,? Jamal was quoted in the Public Agenda as having said.

Among what he considers as blunders is ?deliberately collapsing the transitional team set to handle the handing over.?

Jamal said the NPP betrayed the trust over the cars NDC officials were given and especially over the end-of-service-benefits (ESBs) and succeeded in creating a bad-blood between the two parties.

According to him, since the NPP were in opposition for a long time, they needed to learn a few tricks from their more experienced NDC ministers. ?At the moment, the NPP is suffering from inexperience, he asserted.

The government continues to commit blunders with the indiscriminate arrest and harassment of NDC members and functionaries, Jamal said. He accused the ruling party of deliberately refusing to invite NDC officials to public functions. According to him, NDC has sent proposals asking the two parties to meet and deliberate on national issues, unfortunately NPP had not responded. ?There should be at least a monthly meeting between us,? Jamal suggested.

He claimed that if there were abuses during the NDC era, the young members of the party should not be faulted.

The NDC deputy secretary revealed that he cut his political teeth while in student movement and led series of demonstration against NDC government bad education policies term ?mmobrowa.?

He admitted however that the NDC made a lot of mistakes including human right abuses, while in office which the NPP while in opposition capitalized on and campaigned against them. To him, the government of the NPP has not lived up to expectation. He said the NDC has learnt its lessons and would do things differently if voted back into power.