NDC is economical with the truth- NPP pressure group

THE SPOKESPERSON for Pillars for Ghana's Forward Movement (PGFM), Mr. Stephen Amoah, has accused the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and its flagbearer, Prof. John Evans Atta Mills, of practically demonstrating little commitment towards an issue-based campaign.

According to him, both the opposition party and its flagbearer have amply displayed, through their deeds both in office and outside office, that it was a party which thrived on falsehood and deliberate distortion of facts, to win the hearts of the public.

In view of this, Mr. Amoah, who is popularly known as 'Sticker,' has called on Ghanaians not to believe the NDC, because as he put it, “the NDC has nothing good to offer the country, apart from the conscious spread of falsehood to confuse the public.”

Speaking to The Chronicle in an interview in Kumasi, Sticker noted that because the NDC upholds lies as a major form of political tool, the party even deceived the public about the number of houses owned by its flagbearer.

He said until the three-time defeated NDC presidential candidate, revealed at the second round of Institute Economic Affairs (IEA) debate for presidential candidates, that he had two houses, stalwarts of the party had consistently defended Prof. Mills' modest lifestyle, by maintaining that the law professor had only one house, as against that of the extravagant way of life by members of the NPP.

Mr. Amoah further disclosed that in 2001, Prof Mills came to address students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, where he launched a blistering attack on President Kufuor, for daring to invest ¢7 billion (old Ghana cedis) into grasscutter rearing projects in the country, and further went to the extent of describing the President, as a head of state who does not understand the priority of the masses.

Sticker indicated that surprisingly the opposition party demonstrated their hypocrisy, when in page two item19 of the NDC 2004 manifesto, the party promised Ghanaians that they were going to invest heavily in grasscutter rearing projects as a means of creating jobs when voted into power.

He continued that in the same manifesto, page 22, the NDC admitted that the rate of poverty in the country was so high that they would need 10 to 15 years to tackle and totally eradicate it.

Yet again, the spokesperson pointed out that the NDC had been denigrating the ruling party, for failing to fight poverty within the almost eight years it had been in power, when they know for a fact that poverty cannot be eradicated within eight years.

Still exposing, what he called the lies of the NDC, Mr. Amoah said in 2004, the NDC claimed that medical students in the country's public universities were paying ¢40 million (old Ghana cedis) as fees, when indeed, none of the students at the time, even paid up to ¢3 million (old Ghana cedis). Mr. Amoah, who was of the view that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had shown, while in office, that it was the credible political grouping to lead the country, entreated the voting public to treat the lies of the NDC with the contempt they deserved.