The NDC government�s 2012 budget statement has been described with all sorts of interesting names by the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP). Whereas some are calling it the �Nante Yie� budget literally meaning �Farewell� to the Mills administration, others have dubbed it as a �complete propaganda�.
The Communications Director of the New Patriotic (NPP), Nana Akomea, has also christened it a �cut and paste� budget, adding that the NDC administration has only picked the same budget statement it read from 2009 and repeated it with a few modifications for the 2012 one.
Speaking on Citi FM�s Eyewitness News on Wednesday, Nana Akomea said �it is the same budget, you could have taken the 2009 budget, cut and paste it and you�d have gotten the 2012 that was just read. �
He added: �All of them, the 2009, 2010 and 2011 are cut and paste, there is nothing new, there is nothing transformational and a lot of promises that were made have not been fulfilled. �
Listing a myriad of promises that the NDC administration has not fulfilled yet, Nana Akomea intimated that the 2012 budget �is a catalogue of intentions and promises that don�t get done. �
In a sharp rebuttal, the spokesperson for the Vice President, John Jinapor, indicated that if comparisons were to be made, the NPP is equally guilty of broken promises.
According to Jinapor, �budgets are simply an estimation of revenues that you expect and what you want to do. There is no country where you go and tell them that you made these promises and you have achieved it fully.
�It has never happened in Ghana; it never happened under your eight years [NPP], and it would never happen in any government, but I think that we have achieved significantly the targets we set. �
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