{"id":272706,"date":"2011-01-04T12:23:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T12:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=44540"},"modified":"2011-01-04T12:23:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T12:23:56","slug":"ambrose-derry-mills-must-stop-useless-populism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/04\/ambrose-derry-mills-must-stop-useless-populism\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambrose Derry: Mills Must Stop Useless Populism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-34163\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2010\/11\/10\/czech-republic-to-support-ghana-with-urban-rail-transport\/atta_mills311\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-34163\" title=\"atta_mills311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/atta_mills311.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a>The Deputy Minority Leader has lunged at President John Mills, accusing him of insincerity and engaging in \u201cuseless populism.\u201d<br \/>\nInteracting  with the media in his village in the Lawra District of the Upper West  Region, Ambrose Derry said the performance of the Mills administration  in the past two years is \u201cabysmal, indicative of incompetence, inertia  and confusion.\u201d<br \/>\nJoy News Correspondent Rafik Salam reports the  deputy minority leader cited the petroleum politics as clear example of  what he says is Mills\u2019 insincerity.<br \/>\nUnlike ex-president John  Kufuor who apologized publicly for not fulfilling his campaign promise  of downsizing his government, Ambrose Derry said president Mills, rather  than reducing petroleum prices as he promised or apologizing because he  was unable to, is rather engaging in petty petroleum politicking.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen  he got into office and we thought it was clear to him that he could not  do that and should have done the honest thing by apologizing he  indulged in useless populism, first by removing the fuel levy, giving  Ghanaians the impression that he had met his campaign promise of  reducing the price of fuel which was just marginal and in two weeks  increased the price of fuel beyond what it was with the levy.&#8221;<br \/>\nA  year later the government is back in Parliament seeking to increase the  Tema Oil Refinery levy on petroleum pricing mix with the promise of  paying the debt left behind by the NPP. \u201cThat sort of move is what began  to raise questions about the sincerity of the president,\u201d Derry mocked.<br \/>\nThe  Lawra Nandom MP also charged the president to make Ghana\u2019s position  known on the Ivorian crisis, warning his continued silence could tarnish  the reputation of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy Minority Leader has lunged at President John Mills, accusing him of insincerity and engaging in \u201cuseless populism.\u201d Interacting with the media in his village in the Lawra District of the Upper West Region, Ambrose Derry said the performance of the Mills administration in the past two years is \u201cabysmal, indicative of incompetence, inertia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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