By Fadi Dabbousi
What goes around comes around, Kwesi! Or have you forgotten this saying that we were taught in class 1? During the Presidency of John Agyekum Kufuor, you used blackmail to get ransom or your way. In fact, you demonstrated against almost every single initiative that the NPP enacted, the benefits of which you reaped more than anyone else, albeit. The NDC was paying you! Senseless ignoramuses were praising you! Wicked politicians were urging you on! You adopted the blueprint of John Mahama, Atta Mills, Asiedu Ntetia and other invidious nation wreckers to frustrate the excellent governance of John Agyekum Kufuor's NPP administration.
Comparatively, electricity was far, far, far cheaper and affordable than it is today, in spite of the numerous challenges that faced the NPP government at the time. Fuel was much much much cheaper during Kufuor's time than it is today under John Mahama, in spite of the huge differences in the price of crude oil, then and now. The Ghana cedi was strong, very strong, against the dollar, and so incomes were high. Someone taking a GHs 200 salary under Kufuor meant they were taking home $200 Dollars, which translates into GHs 800 today. Yet the salaries have remained the same, which means that the GHs200 salary is now $50 dollars. Under John Mahama people have gone hungry. Such a worker pays GHs100 for electricity, GHs60 for accommodation, GHs250 for transportation, GHs250 for food, and another GHs150 for family care and sundries. Under Kufuor, all that was manageable. This same person, today, has to steal, or try to earn, a minimum of GHs 460 more because that is the amount of deficit that they have gone into. Under the NPP administration, this worker could save at least GHs 500 if they wanted to. In fact, they had enough money to go out with family and friends on picnics and weekend activities to release stress. That is the difference between the astute governance of the NPP and the disgraceful administration of John Mahama and the NDC.
What humdrum talk has Kwesi Pratt not said about the NPP and Kufuor? Was he not the one who vowed that he would be a fool to campaign for the NPP? But he is feeling the pinch of the worst President Ghana has ever had to live with since independence. I am yet to hear President John Mahama tell the truth about anything that he has publicly stated. I am yet to see the positive effects of the pragmatic initiatives that he touts to have achieved. I am yet to see his much hyped fight against corruption. All that we hear in Ghana are palpable untruths! All that we see is retrogression! All that we feel is the deepening economic depression! Colossal corruption is the order of the day.
Barely one scandal surfaces than a mightier one follows to douse the gravity of the one before it. The media is overwhelmed with the recurrence of thievery that the government is involved in. The irony is that at the anti-corruption summit, massive corruption took place. The misuse of the public purse is another grave side of corruption. President Buhari of Nigeria went with a delegation of 4 souls, while the President of Tanzania went with 2, but John Mahama, the President of the most difficult and unendearing country in Africa today, Ghana, went with a delegation of 22. Is that not pure calumny and grand corruption? The money that was uselessly spent on these parasites could have paid the salaries of the Judiciary that is now on strike.
Kwesi Pratt needs to be reminded that in addition to crying foul against the government on radio, he must organise an all-inclusive demonstration with the participation of all the political parties to snarl at John Mahama for the deep tomb he is burying us alive in.
When the erstwhile government of John Agyekum Kufuor went into a deal with Vodafone to handle Ghana Telecom, Kwesi Pratt and his errand boys made much uncomfortable noise for the NDC. Today ECG is being sold. The government lied through its teeth, refuting such an allegation of impropriety. John Mahama does not have the respect for and regard to Ghanaians to tell them what they have to know. The American Embassy acted as the mouthpiece of the Ghana government and made the declaration public, of course with some cosmetics. The reason the American Embassy is involved is because the company that has been chosen to take over is manipulated by a strong Jewish lobby and belongs to one of their puppets.
From information gathered, some officers of the new company have intimated that even if they slashed the electricity tariffs by half, the profits would still exceed 100%. That is how lucrative the ECG has become. That is the thievery and corruption that Kwesi Pratt needs to demonstrate over. If Kwesi Pratt has the balls, he should hit the streets with the demonstrations that he was so notoriously noted for under Kufuor's pragmatic governance, even though his demonstrations were paid for by the NDC, the dirty work of which he gladly soiled himself with.
That is the neo-colonisation that the NDC has allowed to enslave Ghanaians all over again. Internal economic slavery, willful self-enslavement by Ghanaians begging at the doors of the slavers of Europe and the Americas to be granted visas. After all, Nunoo Mensah advised that if the kitchen was too hot, people should take their passports and go away. But the government cannot even make the passports available!
#KwesiPrattStopCryingAndCampaignAgainstJohnMahama
#RelegateJohnMahamaAndTheNDCToTheGarbageOfHistroy
