The NPP's Intelligent And Visionary Record

In his usual abrasive style, NPP flagbearer,

Nana Akufo-Addo, in the heat of the doctor's strike last month sought to

question the intelligence of President Mills and his Ministers when he told

journalists that “...PERHAPS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER FOR THE NPP TO

HAVE LEFT THE MINISTERS AND THE PRESIDENT, WHO COULD HAVE DONE THIS IN A MORE

INTELLIGENT MANNER.” So, what intelligent way would an NPP government

have handled the strike? The answer lies in re-capturing the 'intelligent' way

they handled the affairs of state when they were given the opportunity to do so

between 2001 to 2008. Below are just 18 of the numerous ways they

'intelligently' tackled the affairs of the state.

1) Signing a loan

agreement written in German without knowing and understanding the terms and

conditions only for the then Finance Minister Hon. Osafo Marfo to make the

excuse to Ghanaians that he doesn't understand German.

2) Believing and

approving a scam loan from a fake IFC whose address led to a hair dressing

salon in London. Another scam CNTCI loan was to follow. Per Ghana's

Parliamentary records; we are still waiting for these loans to materialize.

3) Signing an agreement

with a Brazilian company to take over Valco and taking it to Parliament for

approval only for the original Brazilian Company to distance themselves from

the loan less than 24 hours after Parliament had approved it.

4) Spending 1.5 billion

Cedis on diaries alone during the Ghana @ 50 celebrations.

5) Buying locomotives

from the high interest $750 million Eurobond facility when there was not an inch

of railway line. But for the NDC Government all those locomotives would

have been allowed to rot.

6) Registering Millions

of unemployed youth without any creative plan to offer them jobs. At the end,

it was adding insult to injury.

7) President Kufuor

awarding himself. Still the only democratically elected leader anywhere

in the world to have achieved this “feat”

8) Tonnes of Cocaine

under 24 hour CCTTV camera surveillance disappeared under the watch of the NPP

at the Police Headquarters. It has never been found.

9) MV Benjamin Cocaine

saga which revealed that the international community had given the NPP

government ample notice and support and yet in typical NPP intelligent handling

of the narcotic fight, the MV Benjamin cocaine remains unfound till date.

10) At the height of the

NPP created energy crisis, then Information Minister Hon. Oboshie Sai Coffie

announced to the nation that the problem will be solved on the 31st of

September (Only in the NPP's calendar does 31st September exist)

11) When Ghanaians were

complaining about unemployment and general hardship, an intelligent way to

handle it was when former President Kufuor asserted that Ghanaians who were

complaining about hardship were lazy.

12) When the people of

the Upper West Region were complaining that President Kufuor had failed to

visit them in over 4 years, the NPP's intelligent response was that Wa

was too far and that Wa had no airstrip. (Indeed the NPP exhibited gross

ignorance about the Upper West Region.)

13) When Ghanaians were

complaining about corruption. The NPP's intelligent response was that

Corruption was “as old as Adam”. President Kufuor added that he was not about

to embarrass his government and besides his intelligent solution was to pinch

himself anytime people tried to “tempt” him.

14) During the global

food and fuel crisis in 2007, the NPP's intelligent solution was that Ghanaians

should go and eat kokonte, roasted plantain etc. The major problem with

this strategy however was that it portrayed certain kind of Ghanaian dishes as

food meant for only the poor to be eaten only in crisis moments.

15) Though the NPP

announced that the duration for the Ghana @ 50 celebrations was one year, they

intelligently rented Largus Fort Hotel for two years at a whopping sum of

$30,000 a month. A substantial wastage of the tax payer's money.

16) Sheikh I.C. Quaye

intelligently claimed in Parliament during his “war on mosquitoes” that the

problem of mosquitoes in the capital was as a result of mosquitoes migrating

from “dirty Ashaiman”.

17) “The President v.

Tsatsu Tsikata” instead of “The Republic v. Tsatsu Tsikata” as per Nana Akuffo

Addo's charge sheet as Attorney General.

18) Extending Senior

High School duration from 3 years to 4 years without any expansion in

infrastructure.