Majority Leader in Parliament, Hon. Osei-Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has asserted that the largest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) will soon be seen by Ghanaians as obstructionist to good things in the country.
According to the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, NDC and the likes of Hon. Isaac Adongo are deliberately being dishonest about their comment on the current economic stability the Vice President Dr. Bawumia talked about during the maiden media encounter.
Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central, Hon. Isaac Adongo, slammed Vice President Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia for claiming credit for the downward trend of inflation and interest rate.
Hon. Isaac Adongo was riled that the Veep took credit for what he (Adongo) considered to be the achievements of the previous administration under President John Dramani Mahama.
“He said they have reduced interest rate on 91 treasure bill from 22% to 11.9%; that 22%, is January 2016 and it reduced to 16.7% under NDC at the end of the year and so Dr. Bawumia is taking credit for the achievement of the NDC. We ended the year with 16.7% and so he should have been specific and not say they reduced the interest rate from 22% to 11.9%,” he fumed.
He therefore dared the Nana Addo led NPP government to name one policy it has initiated to have caused the interest rate and inflation to go down as speculated by Dr. Bawumia.
But reacting to the claims of Hon. Adongo on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show, Hon. Osei- Kyei Mensah-Bonsu reminded the NDC MP that tax reduction which President Akufo-Addo introduced is the cause of downward trend of the interest rate and inflation as it has paved way for the business environment to be competitive.
“For our business environment to be very competitive the President has reduced taxes and everybody knows it including Hon. Adongo because it came to Parliament and we probed and approved it. Has Hon. Adongo not seen or heard of it as well? Some people talk as if they live on the moon; it is so surprising because they know the truth but they are deliberately telling lies,” he slammed.
The Majority Leader however sanctioned the NDC to be honest in their partisan politics, revealing that the same Hon. Isaac Adongo criticized Nana Addo’s government of failing to stabilize the economy when he [Nana Addo] was only 3 months in office.
He therefore wondered why the same Bolgatanga Central lawmaker is claiming credit for the stability of the economy, seeing the downward trend of the interest rate and the inflation 3 months after his heavy criticism of Akufo-Addo government.
“ . . the same person who wants to take credit for his party for the current economic stability once said in 3 months of President Nana Addo in office that the instability of the economy is due to a bad government in power. Now that the economy is stabilized and the interest rate and inflation is going down, he says it was due to the measures the NDC put in place before leaving office. So which is which”? he quizzed.
“We should be honest and speak the truth so that people can take our words serious. Very soon Ghanaians will see the NDC as sheer obstructionists with the way they are carrying themselves in opposition. They have made their minds not to see and hear anything good about Nana Addo’s government. Ghanaians will soon see this as their character and will not take their words serious whenever they speak,” he asserted.
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Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, good morning! I am sorry to refer you to the National Reconciliation Committee proceedings where one of the bigwigs of NPP mentioned that by the time they finished with the proceedings, NDC will be no more. After, Kuffuor, NDC came back stronger and beat the NPP in the 2008 elections. I will suggest to you that you watch your words carefully because ME, I still believe something untoward happened for NPP to win the 2016 elections. It is not a real win and that will be uncovered to put Ghana on the clean path of democracy and not some group of people deluding themselves as the only democratic people in Ghana by their utterances and not their deeds and practices. Thank you.
It's quite strange the so called big brains NDC thing their defeat was based on NPP propaganda. Quite funny. We saw and felt the display of wealth gotten from corruption. The arrogance of their young politicians, the disregard and insult to the respected elderly in our country - an affront to our cherished culture of respect to the elderly. NDC was not transparent with us. You either belong to them or you are an ENEMY if you dare talk about national issues not in favour of the NDC. NDC will unleash their young politicians, whom we know had no experience and ANY achievement, on you. It was a great relieve they lost miserably. It has now dawn on them, power is no more in their hands. Their recent actions and pronouncements are meant to only appease their core supporters and had no effect on we the floating voters. They know Bawumia is a possible choice in 2020 hence the attack on the fine gentleman(vice president) any time he talks. The strategy is, let's discredit him at any cost. But do we really care who leads a political party than a corporate political party solving our problems? The fine strategist in NDC unfortunately are not in the picture now. The bootlickers around the Mahama's are currently making the most noise and also the ones with presidential ambitions. Too much chaos in NDC.
Clearly, if inflation in Ghana was 16% before election NDC would have used it for campaign. They had no message and used lies which Ghanaians say and handed them the heaviest defeat in Ghana's election history (I mean real election not the 1992 and 1996 fake elections). NDC members and their sympathizers have never been serious
Ghanaians already saw that - that is why we voted for change.
your ndc will never come to power till thy kingdom come.
How can one be seen as obstructionist when he only corrected a wrong impression created by barwumia. The man gave figures to explain his point. If its not true, bring your evidence with figures and stop whining. Adongo only said barwumia should be candid and say when the took over inflation was 16 percent and now its 11, instead of lying that they brought inflation down from 22 to 11. If you lie, and someone correct you, is he obstructing you. NPP leaders are something else.
Biggest obstructionist. ***barred word***. u did worse things to get power. u will be paid back in your own coin.