NDC Is Addicted To Failure, Corruption – CPP

Nii Armah Akomfrah 
The Director of Communications of the Convention People's Party (CPP) says the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) is not only addicted to corruption but also to failure.

Nii Armah Akomfrah said the just-ended National Economic Forum typified how deep-rooted the failure of the government was.

He was speaking on Joy FM and Multi TV news analysis programme Newsfile, Saturday on the seeming delay in the release of the implementation report of the Senchi Consensus (SC).

At the end of the three-day forum, participants issued a 22-point communiqué, the implementation of which they believed would arrest the economic challenges facing the country.

But Nii Armah Akomfrah is convinced the forum is no panacea to the economic crisis the country has been plunged into.

He said the participants at Senchi should have looked at the economic history of the country and assessed what the economic failures and successes of the country were in order to arrive at a more cogent plan of action.

“That was not done,” he indicated, saying the forum was destined to fail.

He said if the country wanted to solve its economic challenges it must take action on its importation as soon as possible.

Mr Akomfrah said the country must implement an import restriction policy by employing the necessary tariffs.

'Malaysia chocolate cannot be cheaper in Ghana” he mentioned, saying that government must take deliberate steps to make products imported into the country quite expensive.

Nii Armah Akomfrah said the Bank of Ghana must also do away with the obsession of an artificial single digit inflation, with the government focusing on ways to generate employment.

Presidential staffer Clement Apaak, however, disagreed with the notion that the NDC government was addicted to corruption and failure.

He said no government has shown better commitment at fighting corruption than the NDC government.

He said the economy was not in crisis but only challenged and expressed optimism that government would implement the necessary policies to bring the economy back on track.

Failure
The CPP earlier on Thursday said the National Economic Forum and the adoption of the Senchi Consensus were an implicit admission of the failure of the NDC administration.

The party questioned the basis of the SC as that would not be able to address the economic woes of the country.

Addressing the media on Thursday on CPP's position on the SC, Samia Yaaba Nkrumah, chairperson of the CPP, noted that the SC had shown a deceptive and feeble commitment to the transformation of the structure of the economy, describing it as anti-poor and definitely not in the interest of the nation.

The occasion was also used to mark the 65 th anniversary of the CPP, which was established at Tarkwa on June 12, 1949.