Member of Parliament for Suame Constituency and Minority Leader, Osei-Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, says the Mills-led administration lacks the capacity to provide a better Ghana as promised during the December 2008 electioneering campaign.
“The first seven months of the Mills administration has exposed the bankruptcy of ideas in President Mills’ government. When they cannot perform they resort diverting attention from grave issues on hand,” said the Minority Leader.
Mr Osei-Kyei Mensah-Bonsu made these criticisms when he addressed delegates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) over the weekend at the party’s Extraordinary Delegates Conference in Accra.
Consequently, he urged Ghanaians to reject the NDC in the next elections, stating emphatically that “professor Mills has nothing to offer Ghanaians.”
According to him, the NPP for that matter the minority in Parliament will lead in what he described as ‘the attack force’ to keep the NDC government on its toes in the face of political harassment and deepening harsh economic conditions.
“We have the people to face the propagandist agenda of this government that relied on deceit and insults to come to power,” observed Hon. Osei-Kyei-Mensah Bonsu.
He noted that the NPP has so far demonstrated tremendous courage and resilience in keeping the President Mills led NDC government on its toes.
He recounted that when the NPP was leaving office in January 2009, the micro and macroeconomic indicators of the country were remarkable, but added that these have suddenly deteriorated in the last six months.
He said instead of government providing better economic conditions for Ghanaians, it has rather resorted to intimidating political opponents.
“The day before yesterday it was car, yesterday it was President Kufuor’s office, cars and ex-gratia; today it is Ghana at 50, Asamoah Boateng and Adamu Dramani,” Mr Osei-Kyei-Mensah stated.
He added… “President Mills’ lean government has only 74 ministers when President Kufuor’s administration the number of Ministers totaled 68 in the first seven months.”
Mr Mensah-Bonsu affirmed that the NPP did not lose the 2008 elections but rather surrendered political power to the NDC “as the biblical Essau did to Jacob when he sold his birth rights to his younger brother.”
By Stephen Darko
I believe the NPP lost the last election due to complicency. However, many of the locals who voted for the NDC hoping to feel the microeconomic indicators in their pockets have now got their pockets perfurated by the Atta Mills led NDC. We real regret for our votes.