The National Democratic Congress (NDC) says it will embark on a tour of several countries within and outside the African continent, to press home its concerns about the bad governance of the New Patriotic Party administration. “We will continue to do so until government mends its ways in terms of its prosecution of the NDC, for that matter other citizens of Ghana, who are suffering a lot of indignity under the NPP administration”.

A Leading member of the party, Dr Benjamin Kunbuor, disclosed this to the Evening News in an interview in Accra. The NDC recently sent a delegation of Parliamentarians to the Nigerian capital, Abuja, purposely to inform opinion leaders on what it termed “serious political, human rights and rule of law developments in Ghana”.

Dr Kunbuor, who was a member of the delegation, told the paper that they “received a positive response because most Nigerians thought all was well in Ghana and as such were not keenly following daily developments”.

He contended that since the handover in 2001, the NPP government has done everything to criminalize all actions of the NDC. Dr Kunbuor said looking at the wave of democracy that swept through the country with people and movements calling for political pluralism, one would have thought that about 10 years down the lane, we would be making progress in basic tenets such as the rule of law, respect for human rights and freedoms.

“So the principle should be that successive governments should be better than their predecessors in the consolidation of democracy”, he stressed.

He said the NPP government, however, has a disturbing fixation on what the NDC did that they considered to be wrong and very little is said about its own present record on respect for the rule of law and human rights, adding that the NPP is forgetting that the NDC was the first political party in the history of Ghana to have lost elections and handed over.