NPP is making vain promises

...free secondary education is not achievable
By Charles Takyi-Boadu
Posted:Saturday, July 18, 2008
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has advised Ghanaians to be weary of the promises of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and its Presidential Candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
The party believes the era of vague promises by politicians was outmoded at birth and for that matter Ghanaians should not allow any individual or group of politician to give them vague promises, stressing that “it must be frowned upon by all Ghanaians.”
This was contained in a statement written and signed by the Eastern Regional Chairman of the party, Julius Debrah.
“I wish to advise Ghanaians to be weary of NPP/Nana Akufo Addo’s sweet promises.”
Mr. Debrah said it became necessary for him to send out this word of advise to Ghanaians because at the recent NPP rally at Kasoa, he heard Nana Addo promising that when elected as President of Ghana, he will make Secondary or High School education in the country absolutely free of charge amongst many other promises.
“Therefore if Nana Addo is promising Ghanaians heaven on earth, I wish to advise Ghanaians not to take such promises at the face value, but rather ask the pertinent questions of how he is going to fund such projects and schemes”, he emphasised.
In making these promises, he noted that what Nana Addo failed to add was “at least a single sentence explaining how he was going to fund such a project.”
According to the Regional Chairman, the answer given by Nana Addo at the recent forum organised by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) to a questioner who asked him to explain why the NPP promised to make the position of District Chief Executives (DCEs) and Municipal Chief Executives (MCEs) an elective one, but have not been able to implement that policy was an indication that he could not proffer any tangible solution to the country’s teething problems.
Nana Addo’s answer was essentially to the effect that when they got into office, the NPP government realised that it was not feasible to implement it.
For him, the list of such examples are endless, making specific reference to President Kufour’s assertion that he could not reduced the number of his Ministers as promised during his campaign for the 2000 elections.
“A physician who does not diagnose his patient well before prescribing medication can at best be described as a quark doctor-and that is NPP for you”, he emphasised.
At the just ended NPP mammoth rally held at the Kasoa old market, at which it’s Presidential Candidate was outdoored alongside several other Parliamentary Candidates, Nana Akufo-Addo among other things promised to make Secondary or High school education free to complement the efforts of President Kufuor who has managed to make basic education free.
This is what have caught the attention of the members of the NDC who believes Nana Addo’s promises were nothing but mere rhetoric and cheap political talk.