President John Mahama has urged the Ghanaians to heed the warning of the former President Jerry John Rawlings urging them to be wary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and its traditions following its criticism of government’s borrowing to undertake development projects.
He said this as he rejected claims from the opposition NPP that his government is plunging the country into an economic crisis with excessive borrowing.
At the National Democratic Congress (NDC) campaign launch in August, former President Rawlings warned the NDC not to underestimate the NPP as they have been in existence almost the entirety of Ghana’s democratic existence pursuing their agenda.
Speaking to residents of Nkwanta in the Volta Region, President Mahama asserted that he would not be discouraged by the criticism because the forbearers of the opposition NPP said similar things about the country’s first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
“They are the same people who frustrated Dr. Nkrumah. They have been there for a very long time. They say we do not chew roads, we do not chew hospitals and we do not chew schools. During our campaign launch in Cape Coast, former President Rawlings warned us to beware of them. He said they had been there for a very long time. They tormented Dr. Kwame Nkrumah during his era.”
“They have appeared again repeating the thing they did under Kwame Nkrumah. They are again downplaying the positive impact of the loans Ghana has contracted under my era. I do not use the monies on lavish things but for projects that will last.”
The NPP’s agenda, should it win power, will be geared towards job creation per its 2016 manifesto but President Mahama has maintained that the the developmental projects undertaken by the governing NDC has also brought “income and employment.”
“When we were undertaking these projects, we employed Ghanaians as carpenters, masons, electricians and other artisans. All these people have had some form of employment I am sure their family members also benefited because they were catered for out of the income they got from being employed.”
“The schools and hospitals we are building will also employ thousands of teachers from the various colleges of educations and thousands of graduates also from the nursing training colleges.”
“While we are doing all these things, they are still saying we are wasting national resources. They are still saying we are wasting national resources,” President Mahama stated.
Source: citifmonline.com
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NDC HAS BOUGHT BATURE, KWESI PRATT, BEN EPHSON AND SOME OTHERS BUT THEY CAN'T BUY ALL MEDIA MEN AND WOMEN ESPECIALLY THE PATRIOTIC ONES. MEDIA MEN AND WOMEN WHO LOVE GHANA MORE THAN THIER STOMACH SHOULD HELP US UPROOT BARAWO MAHAMA AND HIS NDC GANG OF JULOR, BRING IN A PRESIDENT AND MINISTERS WHO WILL NOT STEAL GHANA MONEY INTO THEIR POCKETS BUT USE GHANA MONEY FOR MAKING LIFE BETTER FOR ALL GHANAIANS.
Massa, dont try to lose your respect.Just give up and let Nana to continue.
MR. PRESIDENT, PLEASE DO DO NOT LIVE IN A GLASS BUBBLE AS YOU MAY BE OVERTAKEN. RIGGING WILL NOT HELP YOU AS PEOPLE ARE GOING TO WILDLY MONITOR THE ELECTION FROM THE POLLING BOOTH. WHAT YOU SHOULD DO? WHAT RAWLINGS DID: SECRETLY MINGLE WITH THE PEOPLE AND FIND OUT WHAT THEY ARE SAYING ON THE QUIET, AND LEARN FROM IT. AT TIMES YOU TALK TOO MUCH. WORK AT YOUR WEAKNESSES AND DON'T TAKE THE GHANAIAN FOR GRANTED. THE IN-THING IS TO TAKE ALL THE GOODIES OFFERED BY POLITICIANS AND TO VOTE ACCORDING TO ONE'S CONSCIENCE. YOUR BUBBLE MAY BUST, UNLESS YOU DO EXACTLY WHAT THE NPP AND CPP ARE DOING TO OUTWIT YOU. FAILURE IS IMMINENT.
Life is a challenge and politics is war in Ghana. What does development mean to the NPP and some Ghanaians? We go Europe and claim they are developed by merely looking at their infrastructure capacity. But in Ghana, mobilizing for same means nothing.... Do we want to go and borrow money and share among ourselves? We must be serious in this country else we will never get to the rightful destination as a country. Nkrumah started and the fathers of these same people agitated vehemently and succeeded in overthrowing him....now we are lucky to have a reincarnation of Nkrumah in the person of Mahama and now the descendants of the same group of people are at it again.....!!! NPP is bringing on board no new ideas.....they are also coming to borrow in the name of Ghana, use tax payers money, build roads, hospital, pay salaries of workers and pay themselves with the borrowed money.....What is new....? Absolutely nothing. Changing from NDC to NPP only means changing the kitchen where Ghana's food is prepared..from NDC's kitchen to NPP's kitchen. The suffering of the people remain the same.
How do we describe this President? Dumb Or intellectually dishonest? Twisting what Rawlings said at the NDC Manifesto launch? If this is indeed how JDM understood the warning Rawlings during the NDC manifesto launch, then that clearly explains his performance as the worse president Ghana has ever had. Power has falling to the dogs indeed!! He can continue to dream. But Change is here already!!!
So the President has forgotten what he also said when he was in OPPOSITION? Telling then Ghanaians that we DO NOT GO TO MARKET WITH SCHOOLS, ROADS, HOSPITALS. for that matter if you say you have done something, it is exercise in mediocrity. He is also now feeling that he has done something. VOLTA4CHAGE, VOLTAYOUTH4CHANGE.
Jonathan no wonder you are in Lagos ... so far removed from reality
MAHAMA IS DECEIVING HIMSELF AND GHANAIANS!!! THE TRUTH IS RAWLINGS THINKS MAHAMA IS RUBBISH! SPIO-GARBRAH THINKS MAHAMA AND HIS TEAM ARE RUBBISH!! AND BAWUMIA, THE FISCAL WIZARD, THINKS MAHAMA AND HIS TEAM ARE A BUNCH OF NINCOMPOOPS, INCOMPETENT AND SHAMBOLIC. AND SO THINKS MANY ENLIGHTENED AND DISCERNING GHANAIANS!! YOUR TIME IS UP!! MUTUM BANZA PRESIDENT. AND VERY SOON BUKOM BANKU WILL BE COMPELLED TO TELL WHAT HE KNOWS ABOUT PRESIDENT MILLS'S DEATH!!
Mr. Mahama your level of thinking is childish please mature
WELL MR PRESIDENT, YOU MAY CHOSE TO CALL IT CRITICISM SO I WILL NOT BEGRUDGE YOUR OPINION. THE FACT IS THAT THEY VILIFY ANYONE WHO CONFRONT THEM WITH ISSUES AND ONE CAN NOT JUST CALL THAT CRITICISM.... THEY GO ON AIR AND SAY YOU HAVENT DONE ANYTHING,,, THEY USED THEIR MEDIA CABALS TO REPORT NEGATIVELY ABOUT ALL THE PROJECTS AND SOCIAL INTERVENTION POLICIES. THAT CAN NOT BE CRITICISM!!!!!! BUT SOMETIMES I ALSO FELL DISAPPOINTED IN YOUR GOVERNMENT FOR GIVING THOSE SAME MEDIA THE LEVERAGE TO COME AFTER YOU, FOR WE PARTY FAITHFULS TO JUMP TO YOUR DEFENSE AS IF YOU ARE A TOOTHLESS BULLDOG. APART FROM THE ANTI GOVERNMENT MEDIA CABAL, THERE ALSO EXIST POCKETS OF PRO GOVERNMENT ONES USING THEIR OWN RESOURCES TO COUNTER THE VICIOUS ATTACKS FROM THE CABALS. IT IS ANNOYING TO HEAR PEOPLE LIKE KSK, KWEKU BAAKO, ATIK MOHAMED, EGBERT FAIBLE, ABU RAMADDAN AND THOSE MISCREANTS EATING FROM YOUR PALMS. DISHING OUT VEHICLES TO THEM. THEN THEY TURN AROUND AND INSULT ALL OF US BECAUSE OF YOU. AND YOU CALL THAT CRITICISM?????? WE VOTED YOU AS PRESIDENT FOR TWO PRIMARY INTERESTS,,,, THE NATION FIRST AND THEN THE PARTY. AND YOU ARE DOING WELL FOR THE NATION, TO THE EXTENT THAT WE CAN CONFIDENTLY SAY THAT, YOU HAVE EARNED THE SUPPORT AND ADMIRATION FROM EVEN SOME MEMBERS OF THE OTHER SIDE. WHICH I HAVE NO DOUBT THEY WILL RETAIN YOU IN POWER. BUT MUST IT BE AT THE EXPENSE OF THE PARTY??? IF THIS TREND CONTINUES,,,, YOU WILL BE LAUGHING AT THE WRONG SIDE OF YOUR MOUTH. WE HAVE THE POWER TO FORCE THIS ELECTION TO A RUN OFF,,, AFTER WHICH WE WILL ENSURE THAT GREENSTREET AND THE CPP WILL BE REVIVED.