The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has downplayed\u00a0the President\u2019s State of the Nation Address, saying he presented \u201cnothing new\u201d in his statement.<\/p>\n
The President presented his first address before Parliament in which he among other things condemned the violent attacks that characterized the transition period earlier this year, adding that such undignified acts should not be encouraged during his address.<\/p>\n
But Asiedu Nketia, \u00a0in an interview with Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0 after the President\u2019s presentation, said the attempt \u201cto create the impression that he disliked the behaviour of his party people during the transition is just a smokescreen. \u201c<\/p>\n \u201cNow everything has cooled down and he is coming to make a statement that let it be the end. Why will it be on your term and not any other person\u2019s term?,\u201d Asiedu Nketia queried.<\/p>\n He said the President’s atempt to paint a gloomy picture of the economy, is just a way for them to avoid fulfilling their numerous promises to the Ghanaoian people.<\/p>\n He wondered why the NPP administration is now adopting strategies introduced by the NDC; when it vehemently opposed same, whiles in opposition.<\/p>\n \u201cWhether the state of the economy is good or bad, we are expecting you to deliver; but we are also sending strong signals about some of the promises which gives me discomfort. In talking about the Compact 2, we[NDC government] came here and said that we needed to restructure the way electricity corporation works, and we needed to privatize some aspects of their operations, they [NPP] said no way; and they indeed instigated workers of ECG to be demonstrating.”<\/p>\n “..Now they are no longer going to sell ECG alone, they are going to sell all the major institutions in the power sector \u2026 If it was bad at that time, what makes it good now? This whole business of let us win power at all cost and then we deal with the challenges later should be a thing of the past.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou cannot lie your way to power and come and take the people for granted. I want them to stand for full state ownership for ECG, full state ownership for VRA and full state ownership for GRIDCo which they stood for when we were in power.\u201d<\/p>\n Economy won\u2019t collapse under my watch \u2013 Nana Addo<\/strong><\/p>\n President Nana Akufo-Addo stated that, he will not allow Ghana\u2019s economy to collapse under his watch<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, despite inheriting a challenging economy from the previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration.<\/p>\n The President revealed that, the \u201creality of Ghana\u2019s finances are quite stark as a result of policy choices.\u201d According to him, \u201cwe find ourselves in the situation where Ghana\u2019s total revenue is consumed by three main budgetary lines. Wages and salaries, interest and payments and amortisation and statutory payments.\u201d<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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