The Chief Justice’s political gaffe last week was as huge as it was unparalleled. It dwarfed the other missteps to visit the NDC as they do these days.
Even as the issue of the Chief Justice remained on the tongue of Ghanaians, the NDC released another food for thought… an intervention intended to shore up the listing 24-Hour Economy job creation cornerstone.
It was such a silly intervention it irritated those who have been following the populist politics of the NDC because of the frequency of similar pranks.
A certain Prof. Seidu Alidu of the ruling party last week enhanced the conundrum that is the 24-hour economy when he denied that the job creation component of the policy, the controversial 1:3:3 formula was a promise. “It was a statement, not a job creator, as being bandied around today,” he said and triggered mirth among some followers, not those of who do not find the silly denials and remarks which have become features of the NDC.
A few weeks ago, Presidential Advisor on the 24-Hour Economy, Goosie Tanoh, denied that the 24-Hour Economy Secretariat had anything to do with the demolitions being carried out to create rooms for the ‘ghost’ markets.
Whatever happened to President Mahama’s clock presentation on the subject? We are constrained to describe it as deceit and wish we did not have to do that.
Prof. Seidu Alidu like others in the NDC should not take their compatriots for fools. We were told in broad daylight that a certain policy, ‘24-hour Economy’ would transform this country, its cornerstone, the job creation formula being especially a game-changer and he denies this today?
We might be quiet and not talking vociferously about the many governance lapses being perpetrated by this government as we should but we are nonetheless watching the unfolding developments of bad governance.
To try to change the narrative is for us a deliberate attempt at insulting our intelligence.
Governance should be laced with sincerity and not the perpetuation of lies and propaganda.
When politicians choose the path of lies to come to power, they would require equal doses of such untruths to support the earlier deceits.
This country would not continue to be in the hands of a political party which has no fixed direction other than this wobbling performance we are seeing.
We maintain our position that Ghanaians would not change their shopping habits and start competing with ghosts for their purchases at so-called 24-hour markets.
Owners of the previous points of trading usurped and demolished for these unviable markets are nursing their broken hearts and looking up to God for succor as politics of service is reset to a charade.