NPP UK AND IRELAND STATEMENT

Mr John Tia and Mr Rashid Pelpuo can keep complaining about our criticisms. It is our civic responsibility to demand accountability from government and we will expect the same in return. If you do well for the people we will praise you. If you spew rubbish like Okudzeto Ablakwa we will criticize you because government is not a part time job for part time students who steal public money to pay school fees, instead of listening to ordinary people and addressing their concerns.

Mr Rashid Pelpuo should concentrate on his Deputy Majority Speaker job because when he was Sports minister he made some wild promises which till now have never seen the light of day. On the 20th of November 2009 he told Ghanaians that government was going to build 6 stadiums, 2 in the Upper regions,1 each in the Volta Region, Brong Ahafo, Eastern and Central Regions of Ghana. Then he went on to say, “I have one proposal which says it will be a concession, another one is coming which says it is going to be a grant”. Which one are we to believe? Surely you don’t expect us to keep quiet when you throw sand into the eyes of Ghanaians? How true that empty barrels make the most noise!!!

As for Minister for Misinformation Mr John Tia, we know as a cadre, he sometimes goes into a dream thinking he is living under AFRC/PNDC, those days where Ghanaians lived under dictatorship , oppression and the culture of silence. We know he is always struggling to explain government policy because not only does he not research and prepare, he always looks like he in a hurry to go somewhere whenever he is doing these press conferences. Mr Tia, we can assure you we will keep on talking until your colleagues in government starts doing the right things. Perhaps at your next press conference please tell us where Joe Gidisu, Minister for Roads and Highways is, as no work has been done on extending feeder roads in Volta, Eastern, Western and Brong Ahafo Regions since your government came into office. You can also show some humility by retracting your bogus statement about the Ghana Commercial Bank. You still haven’t commented on the GCB 2009/2010 Annual Report when we challenged you on it. It is available on the internet if you care to know. You cannot even bring yourself to show solidarity with colleague ministers who have been chased out of office by your own party youths by condemning their actions. How selfish!!!!

If anyone is in doubt about our criticisms of the NDC they need not look further than Mr Peter Addy Kojo, a failed NDC parliamentary candidate who after borrowing 10,000 Ghana cedis and spending this loan not on creating jobs and small businesses for the youths and the unemployed, used it in vote buying to win elections and after failing wants to be reimbursed by his NDC colleagues in government. So we ask ourselves, suppose this man had won, how was he going to pay back this loan? Would he have had time to address the needs of the people in his constituency which is to assist them to procure farming inputs, good drinking water, jobs, healthcare and beach landing rights?

Could we trust a person like him with public money?

And they say we should keep quiet. We shall not!!!

Nana Yaw Sarpong Communications Officer-NPP UK and Ireland