NDC sympathizer and Editor of the Bilingual Free Press newspaper, Alhaji Iddrisu Bature has severely slammed both the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), and claims the two political parties are having a ball with the destinies of Ghanaians.
Speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme, Alhaji Bature said over the years, both parties have turned Ghanaians into a football, ballooning it into the air as and when they please. He asserted that since the country opted for constitutional rule in 1992, both the NPP and the NDC under the leaderships of Mr. Kufuor, Mr. Rawlings and Professor John Evans Atta Mills, have not given any attention to the Auditor-Generals’ report.
According to him, the country has lost a lot of revenue through financial malfeasance because of this glitch.
“Both the NPP and NDC over the years have turned Ghanaians into a football, one kicks it here and another kicks it there…Since 1992,…both Rawlings’ NDC, Kufuor’s NPP and Atta Mills’ NDC have not given the Auditor Generals’ report its deserved attention and the nation is losing a lot of funds,…resulting in the lack of schools, hospitals, water and good roads,” he noted.
The outspoken journalist said he shares similar sentiments with the Member of Parliament for Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa, PC Appiah Ofori, a co-panelist on the show who posited that President Mills only fights against corruption with his lips but lacks political will to combat the scourge.
An obviously disillusioned Alhaji Bature noted that prior to the NDC assuming the reins of power, the party enumerated a litany of corrupt acts against the NPP, yet have significantly failed to bring to book the alleged corrupt practices of the NPP on which they campaigned.
Citing the sale of 70% shares of Ghana Telecom to Vodafone as a major example, the former host of Radio Gold’s Alhaji and Alhaji programme said despite repeated assurances by the NDC to review and renegotiate the agreement when voted into power, two years down the line, that pledge largely remains a mirage.
He accused both the NDC and the NPP of only being interested in engaging each other in meaningless debates over how much debt each party saddled the country with.