Renowned politician with the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Arthur Kennedy, has bemoaned the performance of President John Evans Atta Mills in the 2011 Action Year.
He said the galloping corruption index, high living standards, unfulfilled campaign promises, fruitless implementation of the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS) amongst other things have made the Action Year a bad one.
President Mills on December 6, 2010 promised to hit the ground running after he declared 2011 an ‘Action Year’ in which the country would get a face lift with massive infrastructure developments and job creation to manifest the Better Ghana Agenda.
But less than a month to the end of the year, members of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the NPP are at each others throats over whether or not the ‘Action Year’ really served its purpose.
While the NPP describes the President’s ‘Action Year’ as a political gimmick, the NDC say the achievements chalked in 2011 are just a stepping stone of greater things to happen in 2012.
However, Dr. Arthur Kennedy on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme Thursday, did not mince words in grading President Mills’’ Action Year’ a mere D-.
He said the country has not witness any significant changes since the Mills-led administration assumed office three years ago.
To buttress his point, Dr. Kennedy outlined the failed controversial STX housing deal, the stalled Cape Coast stadium, Western Corridor roads, high food prices, soaring unemployment situation, missing cocaine and more as areas the government had failed to address.
The NPP guru noted that the only significant thing to mark the ‘Action Year’ is the controversial judgement debt awarded to Mr. Alfred Woyome and the infamous cocaine that changed into baking soda.
Arthur Kennedy expressed shock at the government’s ability to pay a huge sum of money to an individual while most Ghanaians languish in abject poverty.
He believes Ghanaians were better off under the NPP in 2008 than the NDC which according to him is “a dull government”.
In a quick rebuttal, government’s communication team member, Felix Kwaye Ofosu credited the analysis of Dr. Kennedy with an F.
He said there has been a lot of record-breaking action in all sectors of the economy in the 2011 ‘Action Year’ which the NPP has refused to acknowledge.
Felix Kwakye could not fathom the basis of Arthur Kennedy’s grade, who through the Action Year of President Mills, is currently teaching at the University Cape Coast Medical School.