{"id":1195980,"date":"2022-08-31T21:10:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T21:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/31\/minority-is-most-useless-says-ndc-darling-boy\/"},"modified":"2022-08-31T21:10:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T21:10:10","slug":"minority-is-most-useless-says-ndc-darling-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/31\/minority-is-most-useless-says-ndc-darling-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority Is Most Useless \u2013 Says NDC Darling Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Political show host of XYZ Broadcasting Limited, Okatakyie Kwame Afrifa-Mensah has descended heavily on the minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Parliament for failing Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>He described them as the most \u201cuseless\u201d and \u201cincorrect\u201d opposition.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as a surprise after he has been on the side of the NDC for some time now and even currently working for an NDC television station, TV XYZ.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Minority in Parliament are failing the people of Ghana who have entrusted them with the responsibility of holding the current government and its appointees accountable.<\/p>\n<p>He thinks that the leadership of the party in Parliament has been compromised while President Akufo-Addo and the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta continue to saddle the country with debt through excessive borrowing.<\/p>\n<p>As if that is not enough, he alleged that the Minority group in Parliament is quiet on the country\u2019s rising debt situation because their leadership has been compromised by the President and the Finance with huge handshake.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019Because Akufo-Addo comes to parliament to give you money, you are not able to talk. Akufo-Addo and Ofori-Atta are destroying the country and nobody is talking about it\u2019, Okatakyie Afrifa alleges on TV XYZ when the station was analyzing Ghana\u2019s debt portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Afrifa Mensah said this last Saturday when he shared his view on the current economic hardships in the country on a weekend current affairs show he hosts on TV XYZ.<\/p>\n<p>He further accused the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu of reneging on his mandate of holding the Akufo-Addo led government to account and exposing their ills to the Ghanaian people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNDC is a very useless opposition party. You\u2019re in Parliament and Ofori-Atta comes to tell you that the country owes over GH\u20b5500 billion and you the MPs have not even come out to let the public know about this. Are we mad?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaruna Iddrisu is in Parliament and he is fooling. Muntaka is also sitting there doing nothing. Akufo-Addo has come to raise our debt from GH\u20b5120 billion to GH\u20b5540 billion while you\u2019re in Parliament and you cannot even come and inform the public.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition parties are you okay?\u201d He questioned.<\/p>\n<p>He dared Parliament to summon him before the Privileges Committee and he will not hesitate to tell them what is on his mind.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Vincent Kubi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political show host of XYZ Broadcasting Limited, Okatakyie Kwame Afrifa-Mensah has descended heavily on the minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Parliament for failing Ghanaians. He described them as the most \u201cuseless\u201d and \u201cincorrect\u201d opposition. This comes as a surprise after he has been on the side of the NDC for some time now and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1195981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[449,18845,3386,680,7358],"class_list":["post-1195980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-boy","tag-darling","tag-minority","tag-ndc","tag-useless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}