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Head of Evaluation and Oversight Unit at the Office of the President, Dr. Tony Aidoo, has opined that flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo and members of the opposition party keep whining... ...about Mills� �Better Ghana� having turned into a �Bitter Ghana� simply because the current business environment is not conducive for trading in �cocaine�. According to him, Ghana will continue to be an unattractive destination for the illicit drug trade under President Mills; and feels no pain for those who are no longer benefitting from the trade. Dr. Aidoo added that the President�s avowed stance to clamp down on those engaged in the illicit drug trade, led to the strengthening of state institutions fighting against the trade. Speaking on 60 Minutes, a segment on Radio Gold�s Morning Show on Tuesday, Dr. Tony Aidoo said, the NPP�s lamentations about economic hardships, does not come to him as a surprise, stressing that Nana Addo�s campaign platform sing-song that there �is no better Ghana Agenda, the better Ghana Agenda has failed�the I care for you policy has failed�, can be attributed to the fact that �our environment is not more or less dominated and manipulated by armed robbers and cocaine dealers�. �How can Nana Akufo-Addo ever believe that there would be a Better Ghana�because the environment created today is not conducive for cocaine trade; because we don�t have a situation where there is money laundering where people who sell cocaine will then bring the proceeds in the form of expensive high performance cars�All those who used to benefit from those kinds of conditions are definitely going to�say there is no �Better Ghana� but �Bitter Ghana�. Of course bitter, because their nefarious activities have been curtailed...,� he said strongly. According to the former Deputy Defence Minister in the NDC 1 regime, most Ghanaians are desirous of a �decent environment� to live in which President Mills has provided and was hopeful that majority of the electorate will reject Nana Addo�s bid for the presidency.