Martin Kpebu
The detractors of the government are not resting on their oars. They are bent on using some own goals being scored by the government to create disaffection for the Akufo-Addo administration.
But however, instead of the government appointees behaving like the proverbial bird who says “if the hunters have learnt to shoot without missing, it has learnt to fly without perching,” some do not appear to be learning to perch.
We know the global challenges that have made governance a Herculean task in recent years, but some of the hiccups are self-inflicted.
For we are very sure that if the government had stayed on its track and kept the vim with which it began work in 2017 and in line with the mantra of “I am in hurry”, today the NDC and for that matter John Mahama would have become irrelevant in the country’s body politic.
From time immemorial, the NDC had no serious developmental agenda for the country except for “little ideas” like Mr. Mahama said recently that if voted to power his government would empower the people with small piggery and poultry projects, and therefore their agenda is to capitalise on some mistakes of government to win power.
John Mahama and his apparatchiks only have skills in propaganda and smear campaigns. That is why going forward the NPP government should deploy its communication strategists to find antidotes to the NDC’s lies and misinformation.
This is very important because the economic challenges have exposed the people to many vulnerabilities to the extent that some of them want to clutch onto the straw to economic salvation.
Listen to the propagandists and their allies in the media, academia and civil society claiming to be on a rescue mission when in less than eight years ago that they were in the saddle they could not rescue us from dumsor that collapsed people’s businesses.
It is just unfortunate that multiple factors have combined to slow down our economic march to progress and offered the NDC the voice to speak to Ghanaians.
We recall the devastating humiliation of the NDC in 2016 to the extent that it was difficult for its followers to publicly identify with the umbrella family. Now they think the government has disappointed the electorate and therefore the NDC stands the chance to return to power.
They seem oblivious to the reality that majority of Ghanaians still believe the NDC is not a viable alternative to turn the economy around the corner. No matter the economic downturn, the NPP is the best to take Ghana to the Promised Land. The NDC knows this fact and has made it a point to capitalise on the challenges to preach regime change without telling Ghanaians how it will deal with the problems of the country.
Despite persistent efforts by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) officials to explain the losses at the bank, the NDC and its media friends and social commentators continue to mislead the public with their uninformed narratives. Some of their jaundiced opinions are that the bank has collapsed and thrown Ghana’s economy into recession, when the facts do not support their stories.
The NDC has been playing on the minds of the people and that is why when the people make the mistake to vote for them, they become incapable of steering the ship of state to safety.
The incompetence of the NDC is legion. Its formation and recent claim to have the interest of the people at heart are but ruses intended to achieve political mandate to serve their parochial interests.
We are not surprised at the way they jumped at the Cecilia Dapaah’s misfortune to paint everybody in government as corrupt in the hope to get Ghanaians to be angry with President Akufo-Addo. Even when she has not been found guilty of corruption charges, the NDC, its lawyers, media, professors and civil society groups have pronounced her guilty.
There is one lawyer Martin Kpebu, who thinks that Cecilia Dapaah is corrupt even before the conclusion of investigations by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), exposing him as doing the bidding of the NDC. His public posturing as an independent thinker who the pro-NDC media houses call to expose his opinion on public affairs has showed his political colouration.
We have no qualms with his NDC inclination except that it is dangerous for people to hide their true colours. The debate on national affairs should be well informed so that the discussions on the BoG do not cause fear and panic in the investor community.
Has any of the naysayers been able to tell Ghanaians how they would have managed the economy during the COVID pandemic from 2020 till 2022 when the restrictions were relaxed?