The National Democratic Congress (NDC) minority caucus in Parliament on Mines and Energy Committee has taken on Nana Addo’s government for failing to fulfill its promise of reducing fuel prices when voted to power.
The caucus at a press conference on October 26, 2021 described the President Nana Addo and his Vice Dr. Mahammoud Bawumia as insensitive, incompetent and arrogant.
“We wish to state emphatically that we completely and flatly reject these lame excuses from government; the question we seek an answer to is “since when did the current NPP government led by President Akufo Addo and Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia realise that government had no control over world market prices?
The party said the NPP led by both the President and his Vice prior to 2016 elections, have promised to abolish the energy sector levies describing them as obnoxious while further promised to move the country from taxation to production.
But after five years in power, the NDC said what Ghanaians are witnessing are in variance to what the NPP led by Nana Addo promised.
On the contrary, what Ghanaians are witnessing under this government is a complete display of incompetence, arrogance, and deception as far as the Energy sector is concerned, John Abdulai Jinapor MP for Yapei-Kusawgu and Ranking Member -Mines and Energy Committee noted.
The NDC insisted that as a result of bad leadership under Akufo Addo and Dr. Bawumia, the level of frustration and discontent are fast spreading among the populace with increasing loss of confidence in the current administration.
It added that not even the introduction of the “so-called 100 billion cedis “Obatampa Cares Programme” in the 2021 budget, have lessened the burden of the ordinary Ghanaian, leaving them with “unprecedented hardship, suffering and excruciating poverty with no hope in sight”.
“The current state of the Ghanaian economy clearly signals complete despair, characterized by a mounting unsustainable debt level which threatens the very foundation of the economy. Is this what we were promised prior to the December 2020 elections, the party asked.
“Rather than taking the necessary and pragmatic steps towards ameliorating the suffering of the citizenry from their harsh policies, the NPP government has resorted to their usual sloganeering by claiming to suspend the Price Stabilization and Recovery Levy for just two months. This is a complete insult to Ghanaians as it demonstrates government’s lack of sincerity and seriousness towards mitigating the suffering of the citizenry”.
The minority caucus thus proffer ten solutions it believes when implemented, can go in long way to reduce the current fuel prices and suffering of the citizenry.
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