The Minister Parliamentary Affairs in the erstwhile New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration, Felix Owusu Adjapong has made clear his opinion on the 2010 budget presented to Parliament last week, describing it as �preposterous and absurd.�
He said in a statement issued yesterday that �it is preposterous and absurd that a government, reading its second Financial Statement would still resort to the blame game, whilst glossing over their inability at extracting Ghanaians from the woods of the so called mismanagement they profess was bequeathed to them by the NPP�.
He recalled that the National Democratic Congress (NDC), in a letter to the Brettonwoods institution admitted that the economy as they inherited from the NPP government was of sound footing.
According to him, the NDC has been caught in a web due to their current assertion and criticisms to the effect that the NPP government ran down the economy.
�The deliberate inconsistency from the two clearly shows the foggy nature of NDC�s vision for the country�, Mr. Adjapong said adding that their very pronouncement made in the 2010 government financial statement reaffirmed the general premonition that the NDC cannot provide and engineer the right, germane economic policies that would put Ghana on a higher pedestal of economic development.
Mr. Adjapong who is aspiring for the national chairmanship slot of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) said the NDC having failed to deliver on its mandate as promised has resolved to mislead the whole of Ghanaians.
The NPP top shot said his party whiles in government set an enviable growth rate growing consistently from 3.7% to 7.3% a par-excellence performance of economic fest which has posed a great challenge to the NDC, therefore resulting in the defeatist stance the government has taken to run down the achievements and legacies left by the NPP government.
Instead of blaming the NPP for its failures, Felix Adjapong advised the NDC government to re-tool and re-augment the economy and bring it back to the trajectory of sound footing. Moreover, he says NDC�s performance so far should signal the Ghanaian that they are not better off under the NDC and added that �it is conspicuously clear that the NDC has really failed prior to the expiration of their mandate in 2012�.
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