Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, says the current state of hardship in Ghana will force Ghanaians to bring back the National Democratic Congress into office.
In a statement, he traced the antecedence of the NPP and pointed out that anytime they were in power, they eventually derailed on their development agenda to irritate Ghanaians into going back to a leftist party.
“Whether it is the time of Busia or Kufuor, Ghanaians have always ended up gravitating towards the party with the more practical philosophy for the development of the country. A party like NDC, which at the moment is the only party which has demonstrated that it has the practical solutions to save Ghana,” Mr Bagbin said.
According to him, the reason the NPP had failed to advance the development of Ghana anytime they were in power is that, the ruling party’s political philosophy did not respond to the needs of the country.
“At the heart of the capitalist philosophy is the thinking that big businesses should be funded so that they in turn can employ others and cause a trickle -down effect. The big businesses in this context, are supposed to be multi nationals that manufacture their own products.
“However, the level of development of Ghana at the moment does not fit the ideal conditions for such trickle-down effect to happen.
“We do not really have big multinational businesses that can produce their own products and employ hundreds of thousands or even millions, and so when you channel the money to the very few businesses around, all they do is import, which creates jobs elsewhere and devalue the cedi.
“This is what the NPP did under Busia, and Kufuor, and this is what the NPP is doing under Akufo-Addo and the result is clear – the gap between the rich and the poor has widened.
“Compare this to the philosophy of the NDC which says that, we need to provide equal opportunities for all and in doing so, we must build a manufacturing base for our country, we must build more schools, we must build more Hospitals etc. “From President Rawlings to President Mills, to even John Mahama, this is what the NDC has done and that is how come the NDC is responsible for the larger part of our national infrastructure in this country,” Mr Bagbin said.
He pointed out that the NDC had the highest number of schools built, highest number of hospitals built, had factories such as the Kumasi shoe factory and the Komenda sugar factory to its name, while the NPP had none to show.
The NDC, he said, was far more helpful to Ghanaian Agricultural sector than the NPP. “We gave free fertilizers to Cocoa farmers for instance, the NPP is selling them now to the same farmers.”
In terms of the Economy, he pointed out that anytime the NDC was in power, the country’s macro-economic performance was better, saying Ghana’s international reserves and import covered always looked better when the NDC was in power, and depreciated when the NPP was in power.
“When they were in opposition and we were in power, they complained about us borrowing. Today, after just two years in office, of course, they have borrowed ten times more than we borrowed in eight years.
“When we were in power under President Mills, we maintained inflation at single digit for almost a year,” Mr Bagbin added.
He said he could go on and on, including the fact that it was the Mills Government which ushered Ghana into Middle income status. “the evidence is there for all to see, only NDC has moved this country forward anytime we are in power. Only NDC can save Ghana.”
Source: GNA
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NEVER AGAIN
A whole honurable indeed,where are you speaking from ,from your mouth or ***barred word***.NDC is not coming to power now or tommorow.
Really? Honorable its a lie we don't want you back no matter what you are our last option not now at all
REALLY?!!! IS THIS BAGBIN TALKING AFTER LOSSING MISERABLY TO MAHAMA JUST A MONTH AGO? SHOULD WE RECALL ALL HE SAID ABOUT THE MAHAMA GOVERNMENT THAT HAS BROUGHT US THIS FAR. 8 YEARS OF REVERSE GEAR UNDER MAHAMA WITH NANA'S 2 YEARS FORWARD GEAR BRINGING US BACK TO TRACK? I WILL PREFER HARDSHIP UNDER A FORWARD GEAR TO HARDSHIP UNDER A REVERSE GEAR. BAGBIN SHOULD GO AND SLEEP FOR HE HAS EXPIRED POLITICALLY.
ASK, are you sure? May be you are dreaming.
What kind of hardship is this man talking about?is he a stranger in Jerusalem? was he dead when Ghana was declared HIPC again? was he dead when Ghana was in dumsor for 4 years and industries collapsed? was he in Ghana when some people created lo*oted and shared? the hardship of the NPP is better than the hardship of the ndc so we will stick to the NPP for free SHS to continue, for the sustainability of the teacher and nurses trainee allowances, NHIS, PLANTING FOR FOOD AND JOBS, NABCO, 1D1F,1V1D and the dumsor to be a thing of the past,nobody goes to the alter to bless his/her enemies so nothing good will come from the ndc for Ghanaians to waste their votes for such hungry and desperate wicked evils! ndc is Ghana's first enemy, ndc is Ghana's major problem not economy nothing but the ndc without ndc Ghana will be a paradise to live ! bunch of wicked, callous, cruel and incompetent create l00*0t and share mafia gang with evil plots against Ghana.
they are behind all the ev1?l things happening in this country. they went to bring some forces into the country to create hardships in the system. but their plans will fail. we will stay in this hardship and they will also stay in opposition forever. i prefer to be in this hardship than to have these cr1m1nals come back to power to create more hardships.