to go up by 9%.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nAccording to a document sighted by citifmonline.com<\/strong>, the increment takes effect from Sunday, May, 17, 2015.<\/p>\nNana Addo stated that taking into consideration the effects of 3 -year power crisis, a responsible government would rather ensure that the prices of fuel are not increased.<\/p>\n
He remarked that the latest development \u201cmeans there is no end to the difficulties for\u00a0the ordinary Ghanaian.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nana Akufo-Addo made this knownwhen hea ddressed a packed meeting of Ghanaians, NPP members and sympathisers\u00a0in K\u00f6ln, Germany, on the first day of his 16-day tour of some European\u00a0countries.<\/p>\n
Ghanaians, Akufo-Addo said, have had the opportunity to witness at\u00a0first hand the governance and leadership styles of the NPP and NDC,
\nand its resultant impact on their standard of living.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen President Kufuor left office, people were speaking of our\u00a0country as Africa\u2019s success story, possessing a stable democracy and
\nan economy on the rise. Within six years of his leaving office, Ghana\u00a0has retrogressed. Ghanaians are suffering and experiencing
\ndifficulties never witnessed in our history,\u201d Nana Addo said.<\/p>\n
He stated that no single government in Ghana\u2019s history has had the\u00a0resources and monies that the Mahama administration has been blessed
\nwith.<\/p>\n
Between 2001 and 2008, the total tax revenue collected by the NPP\u00a0amounted to GH\u00a215.2 billion. In contrast, the NDC government, under
\nJohn Mahama, has collected a total of GH\u00a262 billion in the last six\u00a0years (2009-2014). Exports of gold and cocoa between 2001 and 2008
\nearned Ghana $16.4 billion.<\/p>\n
However under six years of NDC, these\u00a0exports have earned the country $39.5 billion, in addition to the $3\u00a0billion in oil revenues and the GH\u00a278.7 billion worth of new loans\u00a0contracted by the NDC government. Kufuor\u2019s government received no oil
\nrevenues.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut today, Ghana is broke and back to the IMF looking for a bailout\u00a0of $1 billion. Ghanaians want change, they want to go back to the
\nKufuor era of progress and development. Despite all the difficulties\u00a0they are facing, they have hope in the NPP,\u201d Nana Addo said.<\/p>\n
In recent times, however, this hope in the NPP, Nana Addo said, may\u00a0somewhat have been questioned because of the internal wranglings in
\nthe NPP, which have become a source of worry to Ghanaians.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, I want to assure all of you, and Ghanaians back home, that\u00a0all these internal wranglings will soon come to an end. We will elect\u00a0our parliamentary candidates on June 13, and thereafter we will\u00a0announce our campaign team. We will then have one objective after
\nthat, which is to win the election of 2016,\u201d he said, to spontaneous\u00a0applause and cheers from the gathering.<\/p>\n
Nana Akufo-Addo urged Ghanaians to continue to have faith in the NPP,\u00a0adding that Ghana\u2019s predicament can be turned around, citing the case\u00a0of Cote d\u2019Ivoire \u2013 a country that was ravaged by civil war and yet has\u00a0managed to turn its fortunes around.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause they got a strong and competent leader, they have turned\u00a0everything around, and today Cote d\u2019Ivoire is rediscovering itself. It
\nis again the engine of growth of Francophone West Africa, because they\u00a0have found a competent, strong leader,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He continued, \u201cIf a man, Alassane Ouatarra, who is three whole years\u00a0older than me, has been able to change the destiny of Cote d\u2019Ivoire,
\nall I am asking God and Ghanaians is to give me that same opportunity\u00a0to bring back our country onto the path of progress and prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nana Akufo-Addo asked for the full support of the membership of the\u00a0NPP towards ensuring victory in the election of 2016, and by that
\n\u201cbuild the free, democratic and prosperous Ghana that our founding\u00a0fathers dreamed about. That dream is very much alive in me. I have the
\nhope and confidence that we can be the beacon and the Black Star of\u00a0Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n
The NPP Presidential Candidate will move to Berlin on Monday, where he\u00a0will participate in a series of events organised in his honour by the\u00a0Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, the development foundation associated with\u00a0the German governing CDU party, a sister party of the NPP.<\/p>\n
–<\/p>\n
Source: Office of Nana Addo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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