It beats my wildest imagination, how the New Patriotic Party, which hitherto their electoral victory in 2016, touted their enviable competence, outstanding patriotism and economic prowess, can stand to govern this country today with such noxious character of peddling monumental lies about the Nana-Addo-Bawumia led administration and the economy, on top of which, they display remorseless apathy on the ruinous economic conditions under which the ordinary Ghanaian masses are languishing in agony and increasing adversity at every passing day.
The most recent of the president's pronouncements relative to this culture of lies within government and the NPP, is the loud and categorically assuring "NO HAIRCUT" comment, only for him to turn around and ruthlessly unleashed the severest of haircuts on the investments of the already struggling Ghanaian worker and citizen. You can also recollect effortlessly, how the president; Nana Akufo Addo and some of his ministers alike, ate their own words about our country being a proud nation which will never return to the IMF under their watch.
Like his boss; the president, Nana Akomea, a former director of communications of the NPP and present-day managing director of State Transport Cooperation, spewed out unfounded assertions during a programme on Metro TV on November 4th 2022, to the effect that, a 1D1F rice processing factory in Savelugu in the Northern region which according to him, had employed 118 people, was in operation at the time.
The NDC upon hearing such unverified postulations and being aware of the apparent and copious contravention of such unguarded comments with the facts on the ground, organized a press conference under the expert tutelage of the communication officer within the Savelugu constituency, at which event they demystified and refuted with alacrity, the untruths as peddled by the former minister of information.
In their response, the NDC asserted, a factory edifice which at the time was overgrown with weeds and drowned in darkness at night, without electricity, thus, a safe haven for lizards and other reptiles, could not be in operation as opined by the NPP bigwig, and that, not even a single person have they known to be a worker in such a non-functional factory.
This, as one would have thought, should have settled the matter!
But the Savelugu NPP communications director and his cohorts, obviously motivated by the search for relevance and unexplained rivalry, elected not to employ the simplest way of ascertaining the veracity of Akomea's comment, which is by inviting a media outlet, probably a day after the NDC's press briefing, to cover an audiovisual content of the factory in operation to the embarrassment of the NDC, but rather waited for a fortnight and more, after the said press conference, by which time they had cleared the overgrown weeds, falsified documents and letters of appointment and authored a hocus-pocus press release which held no modicum of substance, except verbose statements of no merit and a humiliating admittance of the NDC's refutations, that the factory has no electricity and was not in operation.
As cunning as they are, they sought to describe the farmers they've engaged to provide raw materials for the factory as employees of the factory and tried to explain away the non-functional nature of the factory with the claim that, raw materials were not ready yet as farmers are still harvesting, but such mumbo-jumbo explanation is clearly untenable, respect to the fact that, even before last year's harvesting season, the factory had been commissioned in August 2021and should have been in operation by then, yet not even a grain of rice can be credited to it's operation.
I suppose their cock and bull stories can not be soothing to the ears of the discerning man but the fishes in the sea.
As for the purported board members of the Savelugu rice processing factory, they should patiently wait for prosecution by the next NDC government, having been receiving salaries for more than a year after the factory was commissioned without any prove of work, which is allegedly causing financial loss to the state.
Shareef Suleiman Nimbang
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