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The Deputy Minister of Information and Media Relations, Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed has lashed out at the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) for taking a position that he describes as �unprincipled and hypocritical� so far as national issues are concerned. Hon. Murtala Mohammed slammed the NPP and its members for being two-faced when addressing some issues bothering the nation; a reason why he sought to set records straight during an interview with Radio Gold. He revealed that during Ex-President Kufour�s regime, the NPP government gave 100 percent of their contracts to Indians at the expense of local contractors. He therefore disclosed that the Flagstaff House, which was initiated by the Kufour government, was built by Indians and so, questioned the integrity of the NPP. �We had the Flagstaff House just here. It was absolutely built by Indians. Didn�t you have Ghanaian contractors. We were capable of building something even better than what they put there. The Bui Dam, they should tell us the contractors who did it.� �Now, if we are giving 50% of the CDD loans, facilities and the kind of projects that are to be executed to the Chinese, they gave 100% to the indians. The GHALCO, the Bui Dam, all the projects; the major capital investment that they had under President Kufour between 2001 to 2008 were all executed by not Ghanaians�, labelling the NPP�s double standard as �unprincipled and hypocritical position. It must not be tolerated in this country.� He also stated that in 2012, the NPP under the leadership of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, stated emphatically their desire to abrogate the Gas project on the premises that the project was not laid before Parliament and cannot be executed. Nana Addo, he disclosed, in 2012 �granted an interview and he stated unambiguously that should he, in the unlikely event of him coming to power, he was going to abrogate the contract. It was a dangerous statement to be made in terms of all international relations with the global world. It was extremely dangerous.� To him, the NPP�s desperation is as a result of the expos� by the General Secretary and key witness for the third respondent in the ongoing court case, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, whose submissions have crumpled the petitoners� (NPP leaders) evidence. The NPP, he said, �is a desperate political party and that is so confused. In fact, they dazed. And their problems were aggravated by the expos� that the General Secretary of the NDC gave in the witness�� �They realized that General Mosquito shredded their so-called evidence. Their evidence is beginning to crumple. In fact, it was already wobbling. And they were exposed�And so, they were so affected. They were so hard-hit that they needed to immediately do something.�