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Deputy Greater Accra Regional Secretary of the opposition New Patriotic Party, Mike Oquaye Jnr, has rubbished the �unprecedented� achievements documented in the National Democratic Congress (NDCs) �Green Book 2�, saying the manuscript should rather have rather christened �Book of Lies� or �Propaganda Book�. A couple of days ago, Vice President John Mahama officially launched the NDCs �Better Ghana Agenda II� otherwise known as "Green Book II" at the Castle, Osu, as a compendium of the achievements of the government and stated that the book will cure critics who are suffering from �mental block� syndrome. �I don�t intend to be abusive of anybody. I am just describing a certain syndrome. If you detest somebody so much you will never see the good the person does. Even if the whole world is acclaiming him, you won�t see anything he does. And it is a social psychological phenomenon that acts as a mental block. So even if you are seeing the good things the person is doing, in your mind it doesn�t register,� John Mahama said at the launch. The book, which covers four thematic areas of: building a strong economy, expanding infrastructure for growth, investing in people and transparent and accountable governance; also documents development projects executed by the NDC government. The 87-page book also features various development projects from all the metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies and some of the �unprecedented achievements� such as GDP growth of 13.6 percent, longest sustained single-digit inflation, one million metric tons of cocoa production and the setting up of the constitutional review committee, among other issues. But speaking on Oman FM�s National Agenda programme Lawyer Mike Oquaye Jnr. posited that the NDCs assertion of having attained an unprecedented sustained single digit inflation rate and stability of the currency is a �cheap� feat since it only managed to lower inflation by not spending.