NPP-USA On Okudzeto Ablakwa's Childish Analysis

Wonders, they say, will never end. In a reaction to an independent assessment by the Gallup of both the previous NPP government and the current NDC government, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Deputy Minister of ‘Misinformation,’ and new Texas homeowner, showed consistency in his sub-par analysis of simple statistics.

As if that was not bad enough, he actually applied the word ‘dishonesty’ to NPP. We can understand why Mr. Okudzeto Ablakwa would be unable to interpret simple statistics, but what we cannot understand is why a proven dishonest person calls an honorable person ‘dishonest.’

NDC is after all the party of Jerry John Rawlings that kills, then turns around and calls others murderers. It is the party of Tsatsu Tsikata that takes $5 million bribes, then turns around and calls others corrupt. Rawlings himself took a $5 million bribe from Nigeria’s Sunny Abacha for PR purposes. He recently accepted another $5 million from the Mills administration in a vain attempt to keep his mouth shut.

It is the party of John Evans Atta Mills that staffs its cabinet with 5.9% of a group constituting 19.5% of Ghana’s population, then turns around and accuses others of tribal discrimination. It is the party of John Evans Atta Mills that divides itself through innuendos, then turns around and accuses others of being divisive. And Mr. Okudzeto Ablakwa himself, working for the first time in his immature life for just two and a half years, can somehow afford an expensive wedding and honeymoon, as well as a mansion in Friendswood, Texas.

Thus it comes as no surprise that faced with glaring, conclusive statistics showing how its inept administration has turned Ghana into a poverty-owning democracy, its Liar-in-chief Okudzeto Ablakwa would resort to his usual fabrications and distractions in a lame attempt to deceive Ghanaians. We wish to remind the Deputy Minister of ‘Misinformation’ that he cannot ‘lie’ money back into the now empty pockets of Ghanaians. He cannot ‘lie’ wishful thinking on their part into facts. He cannot ‘lie’ comfort back into the lives of now uncomfortable Ghanaians. And he certainly cannot ‘lie’ popularity back to a woefully unpopular government.

It is amazing why Mr. Ablakwa fails to understand simple statistics. To help him out, we will reduce what he finds complex to basic terms. The survey simply states that In 2008, 11% of Ghanaians lived comfortably on their incomes, 27% simply got by on their incomes, 35% found it difficult to live on their incomes, and 18% found it very difficult to live on their incomes. You may recall that was the last year NPP was in office. Thus, with everything set for the Mills administration to come in and improve the statistics, it rather resorted to lies, cheating, corruption, playing the blame game, and as a result plunged Ghana into poverty.

In 2010, the survey found that 4% lived comfortably on their present incomes (down from 11%), 20% got by on their present incomes (down from 27%), 21% found it difficult to live on present incomes (down from 35%) and a whopping 34% found it very difficult to live on their present incomes (almost doubling from 18%). In 2008, one out of ten Ghanaians lived well. Today, only one out of 25 Ghanaians lives well. In 2008, one out of every five Ghanaians was very poor. Today one out of three Ghanaians is very poor.

This is the legacy of the NDC administration under the inept leadership of President Mills. No amount of lying can offload that legacy. And at some point it becomes insulting that this administration – the worst ever in Ghana’s history – thinks Ghanaians are so gullible that it can simply deceive them with fabrications and expect them to forget the misery that it has brought to them.

It is nauseating to hear a dishonest man like Okudzeto Ablakwa who had never

earned a living in his life prior to being rewarded by the incompetent Mills-Mahama administration for his uncanny ability to lie and concoct stories. But just in two and a half years in government he has somehow amassed enough wealth to be able to purchase a house in Friendswood, Texas and decorated it celebrity style. When news of his home purchase was revealed, he quickly threatened court action, which has yet to materialize. Ablakwa is clearly taking solace in a mistaken assumption that Ghanaians have a short memory and thus will soon forget so that he will enjoy his stolen wealth.

There is a fine line between spinning information for political expediency and telling outright lies, and the NDC led by Liar-in-chief Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has crossed that line. Furthermore, NPP-USA is populated by individuals with capable minds to interpret statistics, and in the interest of Mother Ghana, we avail these facilities to the Deputy Minister of ‘Misinformation.’ We therefore call on him to use our services whenever he gets confused by all those numbers rather than display his Team B analytical skills in the national media.