Who can guess what is so irritating about the National Democratic Congress (NDC) party rule in Ghana? Anyway let me hurry to answer my own question; it is their outright deceit and endless lies about the economy. Infact it is also about their avowed cataclysmic rush to always undermine the sensibilities of Ghanaians which some of us will never keep quite over. Afterall Ghana is not somebody’s Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO).
Every minute somebody from the NDC from Dafiama in the upper-west region through Zinindo in the northern region to Sogakope in the Volta region is heard talking about the worst economy that the NDC inherited and hence the reason for all the current hardships in Ghana.
Even spending over 1.3billion on tea and chinchinga (Kebabs) by a government transitional team is blamed on the New Patriotic Party (NPP)! Increasing the prices of petroleum products by the government of the NDC is seen to be the work of the NPP! And even domestic marital issues by a Man and a Woman are blamed on the NPP!! Oh my Gosshh!!
This theory of political communication and propaganda expired in the 14th Century! So the NDC must come to terms quickly with modern theories of communication in government. The NDC is still communicating as if they were still looking for political power. Communication in government is quite different from pre elections communication.
Let somebody tell the NDC that, they had the power they were looking for on 7th January, 2009 the day president Mills, the NDC candidate was sworn into office as the president of republic of Ghana.
Discerning readers will bear me out that, up to 95percent of the NDC communication in government is not any different from their communication when they were looking for power. The summary is that, before they were voted into power all their communication was centred on endless blames on the NPP for every “bad” thing in Ghana.
Nine months into government they are still blaming the NPP for their bad performances in government. The NDC must be told that, the very problems they are currently complaining about were the very reasons that, the NPP was voted out of power. Infact there is absolutely nothing that the NDC is saying now about the solutions to the problems of Ghana that is not already in their campaign manifesto of 2008. The NDC is behaving like the proverbial “Konongo Kaya” they can’t carry Ghanaians to the Promised Land, yet they will not also admit it!
The NDC administration is just a modern day example of George Orwell’s Animal farm. For those who have not yet read the Animal farm; let me summarize it here for you, it is a book about a revolution by animals that went wrong and of the excellent answers that were forthcoming at each perversion of the original doctrine.
The animals in Animal farm accused man of virtually everything, and when they finally had a successful ‘revolution’ and drove away man, their leadership became worser than man, and all excuses started flying from and to all directions justifying why they were now doing all the things they thought were evil perpetuated by man against them.
President Mills and his NDC for God sake must spare Ghanaians the daily lamentations of inheriting a bad economy. It is their promise to repair the bad economy while out of government that they were given the mandate by the good people of Ghana in the first place. So repair the economy! President Mills; have you forgotten what you wrote in the NDC manifesto of 2008? I mean your ‘forward’ to the manifesto. You need to read what you wrote once again if you have forgotten. You seem to know every thing about the state of the economy of the country before you took over the affairs of the country in that forward under reference here.
The NDC must wake up to the realisation that, persecution of political opponents do not put money into the pockets of the suffering masses neither do endless blames do. What does it is prudent economic measures and living very true to one’s pre election promises.
I hope, I have made some substantial amount of sense to very discerning readers. I am not talking about those readers who hurry to post comments to write-ups and only return after a month to read it!
So president Mills I hope today will end your marathon blames of the current economic problems in the country on the NPP and measures will be started to see Ghana through the current hopelessness.
AKILU SAYIBU, UK.
Email: Akilu.sayibu@live.uwe.ac.uk
