The Member of Parliament for Adenta, Kojo Adu Asare, has rebuffed criticisms over projects being commissioned by President J.E.A. Mills on his nationwide tour, saying former President J.A. Kufuor also commissioned KVIPs during his term in office.

President Mills earlier this year, began a nationwide tour to inspect ongoing projects started under his watch as well as to commission those projects which have been completed.

Among the list of projects commissioned by President Mills which have come up for criticism are classrooms, dining halls and dormitory blocks for selected senior high schools in parts of the country visited by the President so far.

But speaking on Majority Caucus, a new political talk show on Multi TV, the Adenta MP noted that the NPP has been criticizing the NDC over its Better Ghana manifesto and the fact that “the President is going around commissioning bore holes”.

“The NPP during their era, they had their manifesto, Positive Change Chapter 1, So far, so good.”

“I want to refer to page 31 of the Positive Change chapter 1. Let me refer the NPP guys to page 31. President Kufuor in Bekwai commissioned a HIPC toilet. So from today going, they should refer to page 31 and they will know the kind of projects President Kufuor was commissioning” he added.

He accused the NPP of emptying state coffers towards the end of President Kufuor’s second term in 2008, a situation he attributed as cause for the slow start of the Mills administration since it has had to stabilize the economy.

According to him, the NPP under President Kufuor “injected the economy with “steroids” – drug money but when we came we flushed it out ... We can tell Ghanaians that we are not using drug money, we are better managers of the economy.”

Mr. Adu Asare noted that “in the last two years, I don’t think there is a government [I don’t know about the Nkrumah regime] that has developed the nation especially education as we have it.”

He added that over 1,000 schools have so far been equipped with new hostels and dormitory facilities, free exercise books and free textbooks among others as a means of boosting education in the country.