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A Deputy Minister for Finance and Economic Planning, Fifi Kwetey has described as laughable assertions by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) that government officials cannot tout its figures and achievements as unprecedented. The NPP, on Tuesday, disparaged the ruling party�s �Setting The Records Straight (2)� media encounter held last week, describing the three years under President Mills as a �Bitter Ghana� experience. Last Thursday, Fifi Kwetey, at a press conference dubbed �Mills� Phenomenal Economic Infrastructure Record Vis a Vis NPPs Comical Record� chronicled what he said were unprecedented achievements in the energy, road infrastructure, and agriculture sectors of the economy. Cataloguing some unprecedented achievements under the three years of the Mills� administration, he stated that the NDC put up 1,500 boreholes for irrigation purposes when in eight years the NPP built none. He further stated that whiles rice combine harvesters and maize harvesters at the time of the NPP stood at four and zero, in three years under President Mills it is now 140 and 25, respectively. But in a sharp riposte, a Deputy Communications Director of the NPP, John Boadu, at a press conference dubbed �Vigilante-Against-Propaganda� accused the NDC of including "dreams", "plans" and "award" of contracts in their Top 50 Achievements. To him, claims by the Deputy Finance Minister and other government officials that they (NDC) inherited an economic mess or empty coffers are most annoying. "Three weeks after coming into office, the Mills-led NDC administration spent billions of cedis (out of the empty coffers they inherited from the NPP) just for drinking tea during NDC transitional meetings...But the worst was to follow, as government officials connived with their cronies and paid out gargantuan dubious judgement debts from the coffers they inherited from the NPP administration....Is it not curious that, today, Mr. Fiifi Kwetey and those of his like, in spite of the overwhelming evidence, can still suggest to anybody that they inherited empty coffers?" John Boadu asked. But moments after the NPPs press conference, Fifi Kwetey opined that the opposition party is perhaps not abreast with current happenings in the country. Speaking in an interview on Citi Eye Witness News, he accused the NPP of playing ostrich regarding the gains attained by the Mills administration. ��I take it with lots of amusement; they don�t understand what they are saying. The man does not understand what he is saying. Is Agriculture propaganda? No�.. It is a fact,� the Deputy Minister said.