The New Patriotic Party, after studying the highlights of the ruling party's manifesto, has accused the President of the Republic of being empty on ideas to develop Ghana.
Instead, the President “steals ideas from his political opponents only to be found wanting when it comes to implementing them,” the party said in a statement.
The NPP has further said President Mahama and his National Democratic Congress have no intention to deliver on their manifesto promises if Ghanaians make the mistake of re-electing them for 12 straight years this December.
Addressing a press conference in Accra on Wednesday, 14 September, the Communications Director of the party, Nana Akomea, said the NDC “steal our policies and cannot implement them. They even steal the title of our manifesto. So they have no deep attachment to the principles necessary to drive the promises they give. To them politics is all about ways and means. Nothing to do with actually making lives better.”
According to Nana Akomea, President Mahama, in putting together his 2016 manifesto, chose to either steal ideas from the NPP or simply repeat promises first given in NDC’s 2008 and 2012 manifestos, which he failed to implement when he had the mandate to do just that.
Nana Akomea mentioned some few examples in what the NPP described as its initial comments on the NDC manifesto.
Below is how the NPP summed up the party’s concerns about the president’s “serious trust deficit”:
• For example, Nana Akufo-Addo is promising to trigger the constitutional process to create new regions when elected in 2016
• President Mahama now says he is also planning to trigger a similar process to create new regions.
• Nana Akufo-Addo promises to have District/Municipal Chief Executives elected.
• President Mahama also promises to elect DCEs. This is after the NDC in 2011 issued a white paper against the recommendation of the Constitution Review Commission to have DCEs/MCEs elected if re-elected this December.
• NPP promises to create new geographical development authorities to oversee the deliberate development of every inhabited corner of the country.
• President Mahama yesterday gave the same promise.
• In March 2016, Akufo-Addo announced to the Chiefs and people of Suma Ahenkro, in Jaman North, Brong-Ahafo Region, that as part of his plans to transform cashew farming into a major cash crop and export earner for Ghana, he will establish a Cashew Marketing Board to regulate the industry and provide ready-market just as it is done for cocoa.
• Last night, President Mahama stole from Akufo-Addo yet again, saying, “We will establish a cashew board with its headquarters in the Brong Ahafo Region."
• NPP was implementing ‘One Child One Lap Top’ by 2008, a policy spearheaded by the late Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu, President Kufuor’s Finance Minister.
• President Mahama is today promising to also give away one tablet one child after the NDC killed that scheme in 2009, only to make it seem like a new idea and a new promise today.
• The NPP had a Deputy Minister of Education in Charge of Technical Education - Kwame Ampofo Twumasi was Deputy Minister of Education, Youth & Sports in charge of Technical Education in 2008.
• The NDC elected to abandon it in 2009, only for President Mahama to re-introduce it now as a new idea he wishes to implement if re-elected.
• NPP promises to implement in 2017 the National ID cards which President Mahama has totally abandoned since he took office.
• President Mahama, after listening to Dr Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia last Thursday, now promises to do the same if re-elected.
• If re-elected, the President has repeated his 2008 promise given at the kNUST Energy Forum that an NDC government will provide "energy security" in Ghana before 2012. Yesterday he repeated, “we will have off-takers for excess electricity” produced here in Ghana. He again made this promise in 2012 that Ghana would be exporting power if elected, only to hit Ghana with the longest power crisis on record.
• After watching many potential investors in our petroleum industry leave the country, President Mahama says he wants Ghana to become “the petroleum hub of West Africa.
• In its 2012 Manifesto, the NPP promised to make the Western Region “the hub of the oil & gas industry” in West Africa. Earlier, on several platforms, including a speech delivered in Houston, Texas, in February 2012, Nana Akufo-Addo said, the NPP was, looking at how Houston had successfully managed their petroleum industry through "the diversification and industrialisation of a state that used to be dependent on cotton. It is this model of the integrated petrochemical industry that we seek to build in Ghana, servicing the entire oil-rich West African."
• President Mahama says it is his intention that "Ghana will have the best road network in West Africa by 2021”. Now, we all know what the President means when he describes a road as best, don’t we? Just last June he described the Dodo-Pepesu-Nkwanta Road he was commissioning in these terms: “… If you take a look at the quality of the road, you can only admire the good work done. I don’t think that there is any other road in Ghana that is more pleasant to the eye than this one… I also want to take the opportunity to thank Messrs Oumaru Kanazoe Construction Limited of Burkina Faso for the very high quality of work they have dine on this stretch of road. As I have said, this is one of the best quality roads in Ghana today, and I will urge the Minister of Roads & Highways to bring other contractors to come and see so that they can emulate it in other parts of the country”
• In the same month, just two weeks after the road was commissioned, the Nkwanta South DCE, Alfred Kofi Wukanye, took the media on a tour to see for themselves the potholes that had developed on the 26 million Euro road done by the man who confessed to bribing the President with an American car
• In the words of one commentator, I K Gyasi, the President “poured fulsome and unstinted praise on the contractors, Messrs Umarou Kanazoe Constructuon Limited of Burkina Faso, and his bosom friend, Mr Jibril Kanazoe, the owner of the company, the same person who, out of eternal gratitude for [winning contracts in Ghana], returned favours by buying a 2010 Ford Expedition vehicle for President Mahama”
• The President says if Ghanaians make the mistake to re-elect him in 83 days’ time, it will mark “the beginning of new glory days of the railway sector.” Thankfully, he has given us a taste of what would happen to the billions of dollars of railway cash if Ghanaians make the mistake to give him another term. The GHS3.5 million money that was fraudulently used for that corrupt bus-branding deal, was cash meant for the railway sector
• He says he will “expand the investment under SADA to construct more irrigation facilities.” Recalling how some $200 million of SADA money flew away illegally to irrigate corrupt private pockets, what the President actually means to say is that he will give away more money through corruption in the false name of the people in the North. If he has failed to prosecute one single person for the hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from the people of the North through SADA then why would throwing more money at it deter any corrupt person from doing the same thing?
• The President says the IMF programme he forced Ghana through “will be the last.” We must remind him that NPP successfully weaned Ghana off the IMF in 2007 and
• He says he is laying the same foundation he told Ghanaians he had laid in 2012. What stops him from promising another foundation in 2020 just to be consistent? “The 2016 NDC Manifesto is also noted for repeating failed promises. The NDC in 2008 promised to create full employment. Instead, what they did was to build a strong foundation for creating massive unemployment. NYEP left NDC 110,000 employed. Today, its replacement after the scandalously corrupt GYEEDA, YES, admits now has less than 70,000 young people employed,” Nana Akomea said.
Source: Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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npp surprise me, are they custodian of policies, why you ashanti base npp think you are the only wise people in ghana? you didnt launch your manifesto so mahama steal from where? is your short man launching the manifesto as he move around? more over if you say you will construct road no party MUST say they will construct ROAD? please give us a break
Mahama is a copy cat. Only to copy and paste. That is why he can't explain any of these aforementioned policies. He is now going to find a way to make do lol
Ah..ah..ah..ah..ah....this people.....i cant' think far for them.......in any case, does we care?
NDC SUPPORTERS PLEASE LET US PUT GHANA FIRST AND STOP THROWING DUST INTO OUR EYES, IT SEEMS YOU DON'T FEAR GOD IF YOU LYING, ALL THE ECONOMIC INDICATORS WERE WERE POSITIVE IN 8YRS OF NPP AS COMPARED TO NDC/JM'S WITHOUT OIL. BUT NOW WITH OIL MONEY INCLUDED WE MOVED BACKWARDS FROM 7.9% TO 3.4% GROWTH, AND YOU GIVING YOUR VOTE TO THIS PARTY THATS TAKING US BACK. FOR ME I SEE THOSE PEOPLE AS ENEMIES OF GHANA'S PROGRESS.
NPP said they would not launch their manifesto for NDC to steal but where did they steal it from now? Too much complains from NPP these days. I planned to vote for them but they are now boring me. The devil you know.......
npp is soooooooooooo shammmeeless and ussseeless that some of us wonder how they came together and are behaving the same way.how can any serious party resort to only diabolic,mischievous,deception,lies,concoctions,chilldishness,dishonest politics etc as a strategic to gain power?.i can believe it.were we not in this country and the same npp saaid they would launch their manisfesto for NDC to steal their ideas? have you launch your manifesto,yet Mahama went ahead to highlight their manifesto and u are crying foul.this a clear indication that npp nothing to offer ghanaians under the dwaaarrrf akufo addo.it is difficult if not impossible to please a dwarrff.because the party is led by a dwarrff that explains why everybody in there is fuuny.how can u say u wont open ur door bcos of ***barred word***,then the door secuerely locked yet are wailing that ***barred word*** have stolen from that room,observers will just know you are a trouble maker and an alarmist.and that is how npp is.tweeea
I don't know if ndc commentators took time to read this statement.it just show how lazy and dishonest maham and his government is...Good job nana akomea..we vote them out simple.
I am not sure if NPP has any manifesto. If they had any they would have brought it out earlier, they are only crying foul because the NDC manifesto has covered nearly everything the country needs in order to develop. NPP is in hot soup
These and many more were you and your NPP's results during your 8yrs term: Hotel WAWA, Vodafone $5000 chop chop, Condoms at beaches during Nana Addo's campaign 2008, Ghana @50 chop chop, Flagstaff House chop chop, Stadium disaster fund chop chop, 60 billion TOR debt chop chop, NPP'S EO Group Jubilee field chop chop, "Omafo Sarfo" Macmillan textbook chop chop, Asamoah Boateng Head of Civil service /Plaxiform contract chop chop, Kufour 50 cents gold chains, CNTI Hair salon loans saga, Minister Charles Bintim 2 billion cash deposit into High Street account, Kofi Juma 10 million daily per diem, Kufour Gizelle twin babies, Dr Richard Anane going "raw" during AIDS conference, MV Benjamin Cocaine scandal, Nana Addo Trump issuing Diplomatic passports to Drug Barons like Raymond Amankwa, Gargantuan drug trafficking led by Npp Member of parliament Amoateng, Esseku gate, Cocaine dogs missing at Kotoka airport, Land grabbing, Government properties grabbing including Conference Centre led by Jake Otanka, Bamba Gate visa fraud, Peter Kwaku Amoabeng, former NPP MP for Lower West Akim Austrian visa fraud, SeKyi Hughes bungalow luuting including cutlery and even spiderwebs, Thomas Broni wife snatching scandal, Dr. Charles Yves Wereko Brobby's phantom VRA plants and his 60 million salary, Atta Akyea's court Case Against EC with dead bodies exportation to Volta Region, The Infamous Dzorwulu NPP women drug trafficking , Yaa Naa and the 40 chiefs killing, Fake women killing, Soldiers forcing drivers to sleep with dead bodies, Accra mall brouhaha, Etc etc etc etc...... Nooo not NPP again! I and my family choose JM for peace and development
So in NPP manifesto is in Nana Addo's mouth but not on paper, and they call themselves intellectuals. What Akomea is saying means all the promises nana addo is making is thier manifesto. They never thought NDC would launch thier manifesto so now that it is out they are dazed and have nothing to say except NDC has stolen thier ideas. Where is that REV Martey who claims he is wise but he sits down for fuulls to lead his party.