Ignore Cheap Propaganda - Ayariga Urges Ghanaians

The Presidential Spokesperson, Mr. Mahama Ayariga, has called on Ghanaians to ignore vituperations by propagandists who seek to create an impression that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government is failing after just ten months in office.

In an exclusive interview with The Daily Democrat, Mr. Ayariga noted that such politically orchestrated pressures lead to hurriedly cooked policies to score cheap political points that bring no benefit to the country. He said the Atta Mills-led NDC government will not engage in the implementation of ad hoc policies that will not solve the problems of the suffering masses of the people of Ghana in the long run.

“We are paying a painful price for hurriedly concocted, too easy and populist solutions to our deep seated problems,” he pointed out, saying that these hurriedly cooked and short term solutions have always dealt a deadly blow to our problems by compounding them and such repletion must be avoided.

The Presidential Spokesperson stressed that, 'The NDC government is perusing a changed style of governance by being meticulous in our conception of policies and painstaking in their implementation.'

He told this paper that “The government policy choices have been outlined in the budget statement to Parliament and, like any seed, it will take time to bear fruits.

According to him, the NDC government understands the frustrations of the rank and file of the party and Ghanaians in general.

He pointed out that the governance system in the country as witnessed under the erstwhile NPP government in particular has for far too long been based on favoritism, cronyism and ethnicity, and that, the Mills government will not continue the cycle. He pointed out that, “The people voted against this style of political governance in December 2008.

Mr. Ayariga entreated the good people of Ghana to mobilize progressive forces behind President Mills to overthrow, through a determined struggle, an unjust social and economic order built on nepotism and favoritism. The result of that struggle, he stressed, is not to supplant the inherited unjust order with another unjust system, but rather to create a more merit-based society in which all share in both the burdens and benefits of national progress.

He emphasized that the struggle to create a better Ghana requires a battle-spirited NDC and the rest of the Ghanaian population to create moral consciousness in favour of creating an all inclusive society and an equal duel against the forces of backwardness that profit from presiding over a divided society and an unjust system for the distribution of publicly created opportunities.