Member of Parliament for Bolga Central, Isaac Adongo, has accused the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) of having a penchant for inciting a section of the public against the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).

According to him, the NPP is quick to incite the public against the NDC and misrepresent it, whenever the latter questions the viability of programmes introduced by the government and the promises it makes to Ghanaians.

The member of the Finance Committee of Parliament made these comment while commenting the Akufo Addo administration’s plan to introduce the Nation Builders Corps programme which will see the hiring of 100000 graduates in 2018 to be posted to various districts across the country.

On average, under this programme every district should be able to provide jobs for 462 graduates, Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta disclosed during the presentation of the 2018 budget in Parliament on Wednesday.

The focus of the initiative will be solving public service delivery in health, education, agriculture, sanitation and drive revenue mobilization and collection.

Hon. Ken Ofori-Atta added that the objectives of the program would be to, Provide employment to unemployed graduates, Improve skills and employability, Improve public service delivery and Improve government revenue mobilization.

But Hon. Adongo while speaking on Morning Starr on Starr FM Friday, questioned the sustainability of the programme when according to him, only GHC 50 million has been budget for it, an amount he described as inadequate.

He noted that even though there’re a lot of unanswered questions about the programme, the NPP will as usual paint the NDC as an enemy of progress when the party begins to punch holes in the programme.

“If we say the funds made available and what you’re preaching they don’t tally, they’ll say ah! you see we want to give you jobs and NDC is against it and at the end of the year these same unemployed graduates will come and complain.

Inciting a certain section of the populace against NDC, that is their trump card so they get something populist in the budget they throw it out it creates excitement and as the days going and months are trickling into the end of the year dissolution sets in for those groups of people.

“You heard the tariff relieves and you saw what they did, clever one…just for us to say it cannot be done and then they’ll say eii, the NDC says we should not reduce tariffs. But if you look at it in principle, if you want to reduce electricity tariffs you know where the cost build ups are, the cost build ups are in the taxes and the cost of operations of the utility companies.”