Ghanaians did not have candy and butter running down their taps during the eight-year administration of President John Kufuor and the New Patriotic Party, the governing National Democratic Congress’ Campaign Spokesperson Joyce Bawa Mogtari has said.
“I don’t remember, as I always say, that under NPP for eight years, Ghana was actually a paradise,” she told Prince Minkah on the Executive Breakfast Show on Class91.3FM on Tuesday 20 September while responding to some issues and accusations levelled against the government by Mr Boakye Agyarko, Policy Advisor to the opposition party’s flag bearer Nana Akufo-Addo, at a press conference organised on Monday 19 September.
“But look around you today, look at our interventions in transportation, look at our transformation in the sea ports of Ghana, look at the transformation in our road network, look at the elevations in all the key medical facilities we have across the country, look at the new ones coming up, look at the housing infrastructure …” she pointed out in response to claims by the NPP that the Mahama administration had been a disaster and made Ghanaians poorer.
She said the NPP’s press conference on Monday was “… almost trying to create the impression that the eight years of the NPP that we all still remember very vividly were eight years of candy and butter running through our taps”.
“These were eight years of yellow gallons, of people looking for water on the highways here in Accra and in the rest of the Ghana; these were eight years of a HIPC benefit that only gave us tiny little toilets in the wrong places and you can still go round the country and look at them; this is a government at the time that benefitted largely from debt cancellation and just what did they do with all the funds that were received at the time? This is a former administration that actually received huge investment in the oil sector and you ask yourself where it all went to.
Indeed, I recall challenges with water and access to water in portions of Adentan, East Legon, and what have you. All of these failed promises we lived with for eight years under NPP,” she added.
“Indeed, Ghanaians, I always say, are very discerning people. We see an opposition party that is very desperate for power, we see an opposition party that is characterised by a lot of division and disgruntlement, a lot of challenges within their own house, a party that lacks unity of purpose, a party that is just so desperate and will throw anything at anybody just because they want power,” she said.
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As far as I know hose gallons haven't vanished. Secondly, this "little toilets" as you call them were a major bone of contention for NDC foot soldiers in 2009. And at least we can count them. Where are the irrigation projects you claim to have done? The so called interventions in transportation, those branded buses, where is STC? If you've done so much, why are your people still running down south to work as kayayei? Kufuor had a vision for the nation, and worked to fulfill it. He found oil for you guys to chop, and all you could do was to defraud he nation, bury us in debt and tell us to tighten our belts. Away bus.
There wasn`t butter and candies in gutter or on our plates to eat but the $1 = 0.92 GHS. My little cedis I earned not from a politician or being a sychophant was worth and valued to whatever I wanted to buy. Banks were chasing me for loans with my meagre salary. That cannot be said today though I earned good its worthless to the value of what I need. Am just sad of being a Ghanaian where common sense is very much trivialied and politicised with insults.
She is delusional!!!!!!! Why do people always stoop soooo low in the name of politics. This is the kind of leadership we are used to and sadly will continue to see, irrespective of the party in Power.
THAT'S A LIE.WHERE WERE YOU IN GHANA,AT LEAST WE CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE.
WHAT IS THIS WOMAN TALKING ABOUT? DO WE NOW HAVE CANDY AND BUTTER RUNNING OVER IN OUR MOUTHS? YES, GHANAIANS ARE VERY DISCERNING AND SO THEY WONT WASTE THEIR VOTES ON A ***barred word*** VISIONLESS AND CORRUPT PARTY LIKE HER NDC. AND MADAM,BE WARNED!!!!!YOU DARE NOT TRY YOUR RIGGING TACTICS THIS TIME AROUND. WE CHALLENGE NDC TO A CLEAN ELECTION. IF NDC HAVE REALLY CHANGED GHANAIAN LIVES FOR THE BETTER THEN THEY SHOULD ACCEPT OUR CHALLENGE. CLEAN FAIR AND TRANSPARENT ELECTIONS. THAT IS ALL WE ARE ASKING FOR. NO RIGGING AND STEALING.
DON'T CHICKEN YOURSELF.STAND BY YOUR LATE DAD'S PRINCIPLES.
Maame, it wasn't candy and butter but it was honey, it was so sweet because of good policies which you have destroyed but failed to replace. America is not candy and butter but good policies have made it honey. You are visionless and if you ever lived in the advanced world then you learnt nothing from there, I think you were one of those from school back to home, from work back to home and you didn't make friends with indigenes of the land you lived so you don't know nothing. If you had talked to some of their politicians you wouldn't ever join ndc. You are naive in governance hence this talk. Ghanaians experienced some relief during Kuffuor*s time, he brought interventions to help the people and what has your government brought to help the people name one? If Kuffuor's free maternal care wasn't helpful to kayayei, if the NHIS wasn't helpful to your people,if the youth employment Agency which your government renamed it Gyeeda was helpful to your people,if the school feeding wasn't helpful to your people,if the metro mass transport wasn't helpful to your people and many more weren't helpful to your people? If these weren't candy and butter then what has your government done or put in place to give them sweetner? You are indeed ndc and that is where you fit best, visionless, clueless and prim*tive.If your government had not destroyed but added more Ghanaians wouldn't have no cause to worry. A Wicked Woman.NDC IS NOT GOOD FOR GHANA. VOTE THEM OUT.
But there was hope, you could see that there was an agenda to better the lot of the nation, not this mess wefind ourselves with money chopping left and right. With a group of vision less people manning our dear nation. The difference is there for all to see
Of course you are leaving in Paradise now because, you people are stealing from the tax payers money. Ewuradze nfa mobodne nkye mo. Mo bewepe. Mo bedi nkoguo peeeeeee.