Independence Day is upon us again and Ghana, our beloved country, is now about 58 years old. And, as we celebrate this occasion, unfortunately, we are compelled to behold the National Disaster Congress, providers of poor leadership for our nation.
If Ghana was a person, it will be fair to expect him or her to have achieved a lot as a middle-aged, mature and successful person. However, as we take stock of almost 60 years of age, it is clear that Ghana is not advancing anywhere near expectation.
It is instructive that the pNDC would have ruled the country an astonishing 27 of the last 35 years and almost half of the country’s 60 years of existence, by 2016 when its current long 8 years stay in office mercifully comes to an end.
The biggest question in the land, therefore, going into the pivotal 2016 elections, has to be whether this worst ever government, even by the often underwhelming pNDC standards, could possibly be rewarded with an unprecedented 3-terms in office?
Will Ghanaians contemplate giving this kind of government even one more day past what maximum the constitution allows, on top of their unbelievable 27 years of being in power, with the unmistakable distinction as the worst performing political tradition?
It is also noteworthy that both the original political traditions in the country – the UP and CPP have ruled much less but have much more to beat their chests about, in regards to advancements and development, the decade or so that each has had to run the affairs of this nation.
Surely, these two traditions, which started from the same UGCC, split, had some ideological differences and have had some fierce rivalries as well as some unfortunate historical issues between them.
However, for the sake of Ghana, a patriot cannot help but celebrate many of the monumental achievements of the two UGCC parties such as the Akosombo Dam, unprecedented low inflation, unprecedented access to personal credit, exponential growth of the economy without any new resource finding, Bui Dam, major renovations and construction of key football infrastructure, more toad tarring than any government in history, NHIS, free Maternal Care, commercial exploitation of Oil & Gas, Jubilee Presidential Campus, Peduase Lodge, GIHOC, Tema Motorway, etcetera.
The pNDC on the other hand, led the most brutal uprising in our nation. Not only did they abuse or maim many innocent Ghanaians, but as well, their brutal junta which was bereft of adequate competent political leaders, undermined the foundations of our economic and political development.
The sins of the pNDC are many. Ghanaian should never forget that the pNDC sold many of our state companies, most of them to their cronies on the cheap. They also sunk a lot of borrowed funds into rural electrification project, without any accompanying plan to raise the living standards of those folks, to generate necessary income to pay for the electricity bills. Eventually, much of the electrical posts used ended up as firewood.
Theirs is a specialty in propaganda-driven politics and governance. They will rather spend our precious resources on envisioning building a millennium city or to buy pads for school girls, clearly for propaganda-driven purposes even while workers go months without receiving their pay, to take care of their families. They promise at will, knowing that most it is not worth a lot because their resort is in inciting tribalism or concocting rigging schemes instead of performing well as a government.
Tribalism is their forte. Rawlings formally introduced it unabashedly into our body politic and they recklessly resort to such divisions to incite tribes against each other, for political gain because their record of accomplishments are resoundingly atrocious. The tribal words which come out of their mouths and their actions are unparalleled in our political history.
The cedi depreciates faster whenever they are in power. Inflation is also hyper during their tenure. They have brought upon us both of our IMF bailouts, as well as our first HIPC and likely, second, by the time they are done wrecking our nation again in their current two terms in power, recklessly borrowing, looting and sharing.
In fact, the current NDC government, has had more revenues and borrowed more than any government in history and yet could not avoid the unprecedented Dumsor they have brought upon us, pay workers on time or leave workers’ already inadequate pensions alone.
John Dramani Mahama, who became President under very controversial circumstances, as evidenced in the Presidential Petition at the Supreme Court, now thinks he should be celebrated if he can fix the Dumsor problem his own incompetent government has wrought on the nation. What of the unprecedented unemployment, debts, corruption, inflation, depreciation of the cedi, unbearable cost of living, etcetera? Leaders of very low expectations, indeed, these pNDC folks.
The NDC leaders refer to themselves as Social Democrats but are in reality property-amassing kleptocrats. Their corruption is unmatched. Their ideology is kleptocracy. This is a party, which took just 5 years in power to build a $20 million office building. The CPP’s much more modest original office has not been handed back to it since its confiscation years ago, even by this same pNDC, which tricks a lot of unsuspecting people to think they are Nkrumahists. In contrast also, NPP’s head office is several times over more modest.
The common enemy of Ghana’s progress therefore has to be the National Disaster Congress, also known as the pNDC and its scourge of incompetence and other ills they singularly afflict the nation with.
The two original traditions should therefore patriotically collaborate again, to remove the National Disaster Congress from power and keep them away from further wrecking this nation.
By keeping the National Disaster Destruction Congress out of power, politics in our motherland can eventually get to a real ideological and situational struggle between two progressive parties and whereby even when one party loses power, its achievements will not be so totally eviscerated by the other, like frequently befalls our nation whenever the pNDC comes back to power.
Behold, our National Disaster Congress. Behold, the pNDC. Let us write a better future of our nation by first and foremost, removing them from power once again. Together, we can do it.
NPP Canada Communications Team.
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