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25.09.2018 General News

Failed campaign promises: Bawumia turns punching bag - Ghanaians

Failed campaign promises: Bawumia turns punching bag - Ghanaians
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Vice President Dr. Mahmudu Bawumia has been turned into a punching bag, receiving blistering attacks from angry Ghanaians.

The attacks followed the visible economic challenges currently confronting the country against campaign promises he personally made, accompanied by those that his party made to Ghanaians to fix the economic challenges facing Ghana.

The scathing attacks, usually come from trending issues on the internet, market centers, and university campuses, Alidu, Whaja, an internet user (freek) monitoring the development said.

The name of the economist, who served as Deputy Governor of Bank of Ghana (BoG) has become synonymous with deceit, lies and propaganda, according to these angry Ghanaians.

"Following his assertions and the current realities on the ground, we have realized, he was just bragging", some of them said.

The poor performance of the country's currency, economic hardship and disappointment among importers and exporters due to high cost of doing business, seem to have rendered the the second most powerful Ghanaian at the moment, a victim of his own campaign shadow, Ekuba Anderson, an importer said in an interview.

Dr. Bawumia who was made the leading speaker on all economic matters for then opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) appears no longer the most listened to economist in government despite supposedly chairing the country's Economic Management Team (EMT) according to his admirers.

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has also jumped into the fray, bombarding the soft spoken politician with barrage of questions on current happenings in government.

Western Regional Chairman of the party, Nana Kojo Toku, over the weekend descended heavily on the economist for technically failing the people of Ghana.

He said although President John Dramani Mahama was candid enough to point out that being in government was different from being in opposition, and that the former President had reminded the NPP and Dr. Bawumia that it was not possible for someone who had never occupied the presidency to over criticize occupants, but Dr. Bawumia wouldn't listen and continued his scathing attacks on the Mahama administration.

Today, he said the Vice President has been shattered by circumstances and Ghanaians hitherto patronizing his sugar coated lectures, beginning to feel and see the truth.

He reminded the Akuffo Addo administration of all the juicy campaign promises made and that nobody forced them to utter those promises to score political points.

He said even the few campaign pledges the administration was beginning to implement including the popular free SHS was rather worsening the hardship in the country.

Without structures in place, he said the NPP kingpins still insisted that they were capable of rolling out free SHS.

"Today, parents and their wards are struggling to find space. Limited boarding facilities have been occupied and many more students struggling to get accommodation", he said.

All these difficulties Ghanaians are going through, he said could have been avoided if the NPP had been honest with the Ghanaian electorates.

On his part, the Former Deputy Western Regional Minister, Alfred Ekow Gyan who also addressed the mini-rally organized by the party as part of reorganization for grassroots mobilization for NDC, took the Akufo-Addo administration to the cleaners with recent hike in fuel prices.

He said cost of living under the current government was skyrocketing due to poor performance of managers of the economy.

He said the people of Ghana were just waiting for next elections to kick the NPP out of office.

Daniel Kaku
Daniel Kaku

Western Regional ContributorPage: DanielKaku

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