Intelligence available to Daily Post reveals that Ex-President Kufuor did not just get up to make corruption allegations against the NDC government. He did so based on information that has been fed him by his cronies.
The cronies, most of them businessmen, have managed to worm themselves into the hearts of leading members of the NDC government who, as a result, are either resourcing or protecting them.
In some cases, leading members of the NDC government front for these NPP businessmen and in the process, win huge contracts running into millions of Ghana cedis for them.
In other cases, the government officials offer protection for the pro-NPP businessmen and their businesses by insuring that they continue to enjoy the monopoly they have enjoyed since the days of the NPP government. The NPP businessmen, in reporting back to their political godfathers in the NPP including Ex-President Kufuor tell them tales of how they have got the NDC top guns to do their bidding for tips and cuts. Evidence provided to show that the government officials have been compromised includes recorded mobile phone conversations and signed documents. It is based on this information that Ex-President Kufuor had the effrontery to level corruption allegations against the NDC government. “Our people are fooling themselves by thinking that they have friends they can count on. The NPP businessmen they are financing or protecting go back to their godfathers and tell them everything” a senior official in the NDC government said, confirming the findings of the Daily Post’s investigations. The behaviour of these NDC government officials [in financing and protecting NPP businesses], no doubt, is tantamount to committing political suicide as they are directly resourcing the NPP to battle the NDC in the 2012 elections. In Ghana, political power has often been dominated by the socialist-oriented political parties represented by the CPP in the post-independence era and the PNDC/NDC in the early 80s and 90s. On the other hand, economic power has been the preserve of the far right, the UP/PP in the post-independence era and the NPP in the 70s, 80s and 90s. The NPP managed to use its economic domination to topple the NDC from power via the ballot box in 2000 and thus for the following eight years dominated both political and economic power in Ghana. Arrogance and corruption put paid to their tenure in government with the NDC clawing back political power in the 2008 elections. The logical thing for the NDC to do to entrench its stay in power is to break the NPP’s monopoly of economic power in the country, a power that they can use to again defeat the NDC at the polls as they did in 2000. Ironically however, the NDC government through the big guns who are promoting and protecting NPP businesses at the expense of the NDC ones are giving more economic power to the NPP, an action that is tantamount to commiting political suicide.
Meanwhile, NDC businesses continue to suffer. In the media, the pro-NPP press, after eight years of receiving huge financial support from the government is the ones enjoying same under the NDC government.
Adverts of all colours and sizes from government institutions and their affiliated bodies find their way into the NPP media with only a few miserly ones being tossed at the pro-NDC press.
The result is that the NPP propaganda machinery is better oiled to harass and humiliate the NDC government, a job they have so far been executing perfectly with glee while government struggles to tell the public its successes achieved so far.
