NPP digs into Mahama: he is governing with lies and deception

The New Patriotic Party says it is worried about the manner in which the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress is governing Ghanaians through deception and lies.

According to the party, serious issues like the rampant power outages that has crippled many industries, high electricity tariffs, the yet to be felt free senior high school education, as well as the president's recent campaign tour, were all shredded in deception.

Nana Akomea, Communications Director of the NPP, in a statement, pointed out that Ghanaians werr still feeling the effects of dumsor, after the President had boastfully promised Ghanaians that he would be the "messiah" to end it.

Nana Akomea recalled that President Mahama, in 2014, in the presence of an assembly of Bishops, said he was going to find a lasting solution to dumsor, but "despite the presidential prophecy before God and the Bishops, and the presidential chest beatings, Ghanaians are still in Dumsor. A clear case of presidential deception of the Ghanaian people."

He added that the refusal by the Electricity Company of Ghana to provide power consumers with a load shedding timetable, despite several appeals from the Association of Ghana Industries, is equally worrying.

President Mahama on the occasion of the Eid al Fitr indicated that he would not declare a return to load shedding despite admitting there were challenges with power supply in the country.

Nana Akomea added that the recent confusion in the power sector after the Ministry of Power and ECG had announced that the government was going to subsidize electricity by GHc300 million, only for the President to say there would not be any subsidy but rather a re-alignment, shows how deceptive the NDC is.

President Mahama, giving one of his numerous promises in 2015, told parliament that his government was going to implement free SHS, an idea of the NPP which was downplayed by the NDC before the 2012 elections.

"Come the 2015/16 academic year, out of the GES approved fees of ghc405 per year for day schools students, government is paying only GHc118. In this matter of free SHS for the Day SHS, President Mahama's government has chosen to deceive the Ghanaian people," Nana Akomea said.

He continued, "President Mahama and government communicators have been at pains to assure Ghanaians he has not been on any campaign tour but only engaged in some tour to account for his stewardship to the Ghanaian people. But wherever President Mahama has been, he had demanded from Ghanaians to 'gave him a second chance' or 'vote for me' or 'retain the NDC in power.' Another clear instance of deception of the people of Ghana," Nana Akomea concluded.