NPP Condemn NDC Politics Of Insults

The Ashanti Regional First Vice Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Osei Assiby Antwi, has condemned the National Youth organizer the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Haruna Iddrisu's description of the President J.A. Kufour as "a liar and dishonest person" saying that it is a demonstration of the malaise of indiscipline that afflicts the NDC.

Osei Assiby Antwi noted that for the NDC National Youth organizer to "insult" the President and still walk the street a freeman shows the level of maturity, tolerance and respect for freedom of speech that the ruling government has.

The NPP Ashanti Regional First Vice Chairman said Haruna Iddrisu?s resort to vulgar and insulting language makes him out as someone who comes from a political tradition which is intolerant of dissenting views.

Osei Asibbey Antwi recalled that under the NDC, people were persecuted for merely opposing the NDC but today Haruna Iddrisu and people of his like can even go to the extent of insulting the President without blinking an eye largely due to the wind of positive change that the country currently enjoys.

He said instead of the NDC Youth organizer bringing out empirical evidence to counter the President's claim that positive change was being felt in the pockets of Ghanaians and that the nation's infrastructure was in shambles when the NPP took over, he rather resorted to the use of abusive language to obfuscate and conceal the truth.

"The NDC tend to have a very myopic appreciation of positive change but the reality is that Ghanaians are experiencing the positive change in all spheres of life including that of their pockets?, he said.

He intimated that cost of living is bearable and by creating jobs by way of the Presidential special Initiatives (PSI), the mass spraying of cocoa and application of fertilizer and other interventions in the other sectors of the economy, the NPP government is indirectly putting money in the people?s pocket.

The NPP Vice Chairman said the party did not promise to "share" out money to the citizenry but that it would create the enabling environment for wealth creation and that is what it is vigorously pursuing.

Osei Assiby Antwi asserted that in the not too distant past, Ghanaians used to live in an environment of fear where - ?identification haircuts", abductions, murder of women, increased incidence of crime, illegal detentions, political trials, seizure of asserts were the order of the day and said by virtue of positive change promised by the NPP these things are history.