Opinions of Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Columnist: Opoku, Razak

Dr Bawumia Is Weeping For NPP Thieves

Dr. Bawumia, the NPP 2012 vice-presidential candidate is not weeping for Ghanaians, he is only doing so for the NPP thieves including himself and how Ghanaians will reject them in 2016 general elections.

After wasting Ghanaians time with their bogus election petition case challenging the validity of H.E. John Dramani Mahama for eight long months, it is very disgusting and shameful for Dr. Bawumia to turn around and criticized the NDC Government for not doing well. We all know how the election petition case crippled the 2013 economy so the least we expect Bawumia is to keep quiet because Ghanaians are currently suffering due to their evil plot to make the NDC Government ungovernable. How does Bawumia expect Mahama to use almost five months to transform the economy after wasting our precious eight months in Court?

If indeed Ghanaians are truly weeping then Dr. Bawumia is a contributing factor. Bawumia always proud himself as one of the very people who championed the redenomination of the cedi and I think that Bawumia should be arrested for damaging our currency. As result of Bawumia economic negligence, now Ghana currency interval is 5p due to the rejection of the 1p coin the NPP introduced. Now everything starts from 5p-10p-15p-20p-25p-30p-35p-40p-45p-50p etc. instead of starting from 1p-2p-3p-4p-5p-6p-7p-8p-9p-10p-11p-12p-13p-14p-15p-16p-17p-18p-19p-20p etc. just like any currency.

Bawumia redenomination policy has totally crippled the economy making it very difficult for any Government to fix the economy. This bad policy by the NPP has affected pricing of goods and services. For Goods or services that one is expected to pay for let say 98p, because there is rejection of the 1p coin, the person end up paying for 1 cedi and these pricing problems runs throughout all the sectors of the economy.

Dr Bawumia and the NPP should give us a break with their ALL KNOWING ARROGANCE and I want to assure them that, the Ghanaians electorates will reject the NPP in 2016 general elections irrespective of who becomes their Presidential Candidate.

I will like to advise Bawumia and the NPP to strategize for may be 2090 general elections because after NDC, the United Front Party is the next party to govern Ghana.

The reference for the NPP Thieves is Hon. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, NPP MP.

*RAZAK KOJO OPOKU*

(*GENERAL SECRETARY, United Front Party, UFP*)