{"id":272540,"date":"2011-01-07T13:17:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T13:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=45231"},"modified":"2011-01-07T13:17:52","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T13:17:52","slug":"ndc-government-is-not-father-christmas-tony-aidoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/07\/ndc-government-is-not-father-christmas-tony-aidoo\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC Government Is Not &#8220;Father Christmas&#8221; &#8211; Tony Aidoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_34104\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34104\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-34104\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2010\/10\/13\/tony-aidoo-kufuor-only-wanted-monumental-legacies\/tony_aidoo\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34104\" title=\"tony_aidoo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tony_aidoo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Aidoo<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Head of Policy Monitoring and  Evaluation Unit at the Presidency Dr. Tony Aidoo, says Government is not  \u201cFather Christmas\u201d meaning it cannot continue to subsidize everything  all in the name of social democratic principles.<br \/>\nDr. Aidoo said  this in reaction to a statement by the General Secretary of the Trades  Union (TUC), to the effect that the NDC was gradually losing its social  democratic credentials.<br \/>\nMr. Kofi Asamoah was speaking to Citi  News after the Union had released a statement condemning the recent  price hikes in petroleum products.<br \/>\nAccording to him, the quantum  of increase at the beginning of a new year coupled with the utility  price hikes in 2009 indicates that government is becoming insensitive to  the plight of Ghanaians.<br \/>\nMr. Kofi Asamoah said the Government  was succumbing to pressures from the IMF and the World Bank and by  extension increasingly losing its democratic credentials.<br \/>\n\u201cGradually  if it (NDC) does not take care and allow the IMF to be dictating the  way it is doing in the name of full recovery and all that, they will  kill us. Over the years, we have given in to the whims and caprices of  these international financial institutions yet it didn\u2019t give us any  benefits\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThe TUC wants government to as a matter of  urgency, reduce the increases. Mr. Asamoah said  the Union will meet to  decide its next line of action if Government does not consider a review.<br \/>\n\u201cI can assure you that if the increases were done in a gradual way  people would not be crying this way. Where are they pushing us to? Such  an increase will have serious implications for the face values of  income, it will have serious implications for industry, it will have  serious implications for cost of living and then serious implications  for job security,\u201d he lamented.<br \/>\nBut the Head of Policy Monitoring and Evaluation Unit at the Presidency Dr. Tony Aidoo, disagrees with the TUC Boss.<br \/>\nHe  started his submission by stating that \u201cBeing a social democrat doesn\u2019t  mean that you are Father Christmas. What it means is that you take  account of the objective conditions on the ground and administer your  affairs according to the imperatives that come of out of those objective  conditions\u201d he said.<br \/>\nAccording to Dr. Tony Aidoo, such tough  decisions will in the end inure to the benefit of the populace. He said  Government cannot watch the nation\u2019s oil refinery to continue to dwindle  as a result of huge indebtedness.<br \/>\nDr. Aidoo dismissed the TUC\u2019s claim that Government was succumbing to international pressures hence such tough decisions.<br \/>\n\u201cIt  is interesting that after eight years of relative silence in the NPP  regime when increment went as far as 100% and sometimes 120%, the TUC  was relatively silent. A mere 30% increment has brought out this kind of  reaction. It\u2019s horrendous! The increment imposed on this country by the  NPP Government never invited a whisper from the TUC\u201d he said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe  very nature of the increment in the fuel crisis indicates the NDC\u2019s  socialist concerns of the underprivileged. As you noted, kerosene did  not go up because we know that it is the commodity that is used by the  greater number of the underprivileged population especially the rural  folk. Premix did not go up because it has considerable economic input  for those who are strangulated within the area of fishing for their  means of living. That is indicative of the socialist concern of the NDC\u201d  he noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Head of Policy Monitoring and Evaluation Unit at the Presidency Dr. Tony Aidoo, says Government is not \u201cFather Christmas\u201d meaning it cannot continue to subsidize everything all in the name of social democratic principles. 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