{"id":251353,"date":"2016-09-24T12:10:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T12:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=251353"},"modified":"2016-09-24T12:10:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T12:10:11","slug":"ndc-used-presidency-to-promote-cocaine-npp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/ndc-used-presidency-to-promote-cocaine-npp\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC used presidency to promote cocaine &#8211; NPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) communication team, \u00a0John Kuma, has accused the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), of using the office of the President to promote cocaine trade in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He was responding to claims by the Minister of Transport, Fifi Kwetey, that the John Kufour-led NPP administration made Ghana a hub of cocaine trade.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kwetey made the claim at a forum dubbed \u201cSetting the records straight,\u201d in response to claims made by the NPP that government has been incompetent particularly in its handling of the economy.<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201cit should be noted that; we tried not to even make reference to the fact that the NDC period was a period when the economy of Ghana was not inundated with massive cocaine cash as was experienced during the eight years of the NPP, when the floodgates of cocaine were opened and Ghana became a virtual cocaine hub.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But in sharp rebuttal on <strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Big Issue<\/strong> on Saturday, Mr. John Kuma said Fifi Kwetey lacked credibility and his assertions were entirely untrue.<\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled, that one of the high profile cocaine cases in the current NDC administration, involved one<span style=\"color: #666699;\"> <strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/01\/06\/nayele-sentenced-8-years-prison\/\">Nayele Ametefe<\/a><\/strong><\/span>,\u00a0who is serving an eight-year jail term in the UK, after it emerged that with a diplomatic passport, she managed to go through Ghana&#8217;s Kotoka International Airport with\u00a012 kg of \u00a0cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have used the presidency to promote cocaine and you have the audacity to refer to MV Benjamin which a committee sat and came up to say that the 77 parcels of cocaine was somebody\u2019s figment of imagination and that there was no such thing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is his [Fifi Kwetey] credibility to raise dead propaganda issues over weightier matters like you have received GH\u00a2248b and you have not accounted for it,\u201d he quizzed.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kuma said the NDC has retrogressed and dwindled Ghana\u2019s economic fortunes in spite of the firm foundation laid by the NPP before 2009.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018We\u2019ve managed economy better than NPP\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Transport Minister, Fifi Kwetey in a recent press conference said the NDC has <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/22\/weve-managed-economy-better-than-npp-ndc\/\">managed Ghana\u2019s economy better than the NPP<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. One debt stocks, he said \u201cFrom 2001 to 2008, the NPP accumulated a total debt stock 56.9billion cedis, taking it from 9.7billion cedis in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>He said the \u201cNPP therefore had access to 4.3 times more loan financing than NDC 1 under Jerry Rawlings. In spite of this, the NDC 1 overshadows the NPP in virtually all critical development infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNDC built 3 regional hospitals against zero by the non-performing NPP. NDC within that period, can also boast of a couple of public universities against zero by the NPP,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jonas Nyabor\/Citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) communication team, \u00a0John Kuma, has accused the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), of using the office of the President to promote cocaine trade in the country. 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