Power-thirsty opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) yesterday embarked on an angry mass protest against the government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), led by the affable President Mahama.
It cannot be disputed that the main motivation for the NPP in this protest march yesterday was to opportunistically continue piling pressure on the Mahama administration in order to make it unpopular and susceptible to defeat at the polls next year.
Last year their main slogan was the currency, when it was depreciating at an alarming rate.
They made so much noise about the currency and the fact that it was adjudged the worst performing currency by the Reuters News Agency having depreciated by over 30 per cent.
After the Mahama administration had worked around the clock to bring the currency’s sharp depreciation under control, the NPP made a huge about-turn with their attention now focused on the energy crisis the country is engulfed in presently.
This culminated in yesterday’s mass demonstration in the capital city, Accra.
However, The aL-hAJJ is sounding a note of caution to the opposition and their surrogates that they should begin a re-think on their 2016 election strategy if they think the current energy crisis would linger up to that time.
The elaborate measures put down by the Mahama administration to resolve the problem once and for all are so convincing that the NPP will be left with no election slogan if they continue to desperately clutch on the energy problems.
The aL-hAJJ is tempted to believe that the party is on a suicide mission with these desperate attempts at holding onto the energy crisis as the major plank of their election campaign.
They must simply and clearly know that by the end of the year, the problem will be solved and they will be bereft of any issue moving into the election year.
Not only that, the macro-economic stability we are currently witnessing will dovetail into ordinary people’s standard of living. There would be massive reduction in interest rates, making it easier for businesses to access credit and expand their operations.
Apart from the economic front, the performance of government in the area of infrastructure across all sectors of the economy will be visible for every Ghanaian.
Already government can boost of many infrastructure in education, health, roads and many other area.
The Komenda Sugar factory, Elmina Fish Processing Factory, DIHOC shoe factory in Kumasi, Takoradi Port Expansion, Tamale Hospital Rehabilitation and Expansion, Legon Teaching Hospital, Upper West Regional Hospital, Tamale Airport Rehabilitation and Expansion, Kumasi Airport Expansion, Nkrumah Circle Interchange, Ghana-Togo Railway among major projects that this government can boast of.
In the area of education, the government is giving true meaning to the 1992 Constitution by moving at full throttle with its free Senior High School (SHS) Program.
The country is also witnessing what one can be call a REVOLUTION in educational infrastructure with the new 200 Community SHS.
By the close of this year, about 73 of them will be completed. Some are already at different stages of completion.
Apart from that we are seeing the promise of setting up new universities coming into fruition. One can mention the upgrade of the Polytechnics into universities.
These and many other tangible projects in the pipeline would make it very difficult for the NPP to win the next elections. So it is about time they started re-thinking on the next move.
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