At the Mantse Agbona Super Gargantuan rally of the NDC last
Saturday, a Deputy Minister of Finace, Mr. Fifi Kwetey said the opposition NPP
which is desperate to come to power ‘at all cost’ has no track record to
convince Ghanaians to return it to power. In a fiery thought-provoking speech,
he compared and contrasted the achievements of the NDC against that of the
eight years of the NPP to buttress his point. Below is the analysis the Deputy
Finance Minister made. READ ON
NDC led by Prof Mills in 08 asked for a
comeback. The people of Ghana examined the record of the NDC in eight years and
said Yes Come Back.
Today, NPP also thinks it can ask for a
comeback. Now let's examine the track record of the two in recent past when
given eight years.
**Education-
NDC
NPP
Pre schools
6321
2362
Primary schools.
12,335.
1,013
JSS.
6,414.
853
SSS.
264.
19
Science Res. Centres.
110.
0
Public Universities.
3.
0
Polytechnics.
7.
0
And yet the NPP has the gut to ask for a
comeback. Come back for what?
How dare they?
***Heath Infrastructure
NDC built regional hospitals in the Volta,
central and Brong Ahafo regions, refurbished the Effiah Nkwantah hospital and
did massive rehabilitation of 37 Military and Okomfo Anokye and was about to
start the Tamale Hospital
What did NPP do about regional hospitals? Zero.
Even the tamale one NDC was about to do they abandoned
And yet the NPP has the gut to ask for a
comeback. Come back for what?
How dare they?
*****Economy
NDC in eight years grew the economy of Ghana 12
times an incredible increase of 1169%. NPP in eight years achieved a paltry 300
% and yet they have been singing all over about quadrupling economy when the
real champions grew the economy 12 times and are not talking. The same
champions who had brought inflation from 124% in 1984 down to single digit in
May 99 before the crisis erupted in the second half of 99 and 2000.
And yet the NPP has the audacity to ask for a
comeback. Come back for what?
How dare they?
***Roads
NDC constructed roads to the extent that the NPP
in opposition used to say we don't eat roads- (comments of ignoramuses). Accra
roads, Kumasi roads, Tamale roads, other regional capitals to name but a few.
NPPs eight year record on roads pales into insignificance
And yet the NPP has the effrontery to ask for a
comeback. Come back for what?
How dare they?
***Energy
Under Energy, NDC in eight years achieved
incredible feats in rural electrification sending energy thro to all the
districts of Ghana. NDC constructed and expanded the Aboadze thermal plant,
initiated the West Africa Gas pipeline project etc. NPP eight year energy
performance was nothing to write home about.
And yet the NPP has the gut to ask for a
comeback. Come back for what?
How dare they?
Do they want to come back
-to bring another unprecedented budget deficit?
- to send the economy into intensive care unit
again?
- to saddle the nation with arrears amounting to
nearly 40 trillion cedis, virtually the whole debt stock of Ghana from Nkrumah
to Rawlings?
-to cause another acceleration in inflation?
-to bring another collapse to Tema Oil Refinery?
-to bring Ghana Commercial Bank to its knees?
- to deceive contractors that they have money in
budget only for them to become bankrupt because of crippling debts?
-to put our banking sector in crisis through
high Non performing loans?
- to recklessly start major road contracts
without even bothering to secure a source of funding?
-to bring back a situation when price of kenkey
jumped 1400 % or 525% in three years?
-to put to flight portfolio investors as
happened in the first months of 2009 because of the elephant size Mess they
left behind?
-to go borrow another 750 million dollars and go
buy locomotives when there was no railway tracks ready and buy prepaid meters
when major roads and hospitals were in crisis? Or is it
-to come collapse again the local fishing
industry, rice and cotton sectors again?
What exactly do they want to come back for?
Or do they want to come back to stop the
Unprecedented Achievements of President Mills in three years, achievements NPP
in 8 years could not attain?
-unprecedented single digit inflation rate that
has prevented kenkey price going up by 525% as happened under NPP
-unprecedented low budget deficit
-unprecedented single spine salary
-unprecedented GDP growth
-unprecedented one million metric tons of cocoa
-unprecedented rise in foreign direct investment
-unprecedented single digit 91 T bill rate in
three years
-unprecedented Gross External Reserves
-unprecedented international confidence in
Ghana's economy
Or is it that the NPP wants power back to do
what Ghana and the world know they know how to do best?
"NPP, NPP
All they Know
Is Cocaine Here, Cocaine there, Cocaine
Everywhere
NPP, NPP
All they know
Is Cocaine Here, Cocaine There, Cocaine
Everywhere."
