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Running a nation is a serious business – Nana Addo
Presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, has said the business of governing a country is a “serious business.”
He said the way the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) is going about activities in the country amounted to an “embarrassing exercise in mediocrity.”
Addressing the nation in what the NPP calls “the real state of the nation address” at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Nana Addo said the country is in a state of crisis.
According to Nana Addo, “The economy is on a reverse trend.”
Citing some challenges Ghana have had to contend with under Mahama’s watch, Nana Addo mentioned the situation of teacher trainees whose allowances have been cancelled by the government.
The challenges of the health system which he described as a “virtual return of the cash and carry system” also featured prominently in his speech.
Other issues like the water crisis shortages facing parts of the country as well as bushfires and rising unemployment among the youths.
Nana Addo criticised the rebranding of the 116 Metro Mass buses provided the government with an avenue to bleed the nation.
Reacting to President Mahama’s State of the nation address last Thursday in Parliament, Nana said the President was “theatrical” before the nation instead of treating the occasion with all the seriousness it deserves.
He said the President chose to talk only about the good side of his government leaving out the many sordid situations in the country.
“This is a good news storytelling President,” he said.
Nana said he had traveled across the length and breadth of the country in much of his adult life and every time he is greeted by the hardship of the people.
“I have seen poverty, I have seen suffering”, Nana Addo said.
He criticized the reckless borrowing by the government which he says is responsible for closing the fiscal space of capital investment in the country.
Nana says amateurism and panic measures taken by the government as well as the plundering of the public purse by some government officials has sent many Ghanaians into hardship.
– See more at: http://www.myjoyonline.com/politics/2016/February-29th/running-a-nation-is-a-serious-business-nana-addo.php#sthash.Uole1DLb.dpuf
He said the way the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) is going about activities in the country amounted to an “embarrassing exercise in mediocrity.”
Addressing the nation in what the NPP calls “the real state of the nation address” at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Nana Addo said the country is in a state of crisis.
According to Nana Addo, “The economy is on a reverse trend.”
Citing some challenges Ghana have had to contend with under Mahama’s watch, Nana Addo mentioned the situation of teacher trainees whose allowances have been cancelled by the government.
The challenges of the health system which he described as a “virtual return of the cash and carry system” also featured prominently in his speech.
Other issues like the water crisis shortages facing parts of the country as well as bushfires and rising unemployment among the youths.
Nana Addo criticised the rebranding of the 116 Metro Mass buses provided the government with an avenue to bleed the nation.
Reacting to President Mahama’s State of the nation address last Thursday in Parliament, Nana said the President was “theatrical” before the nation instead of treating the occasion with all the seriousness it deserves.
He said the President chose to talk only about the good side of his government leaving out the many sordid situations in the country.
“This is a good news storytelling President,” he said.
Nana said he had traveled across the length and breadth of the country in much of his adult life and every time he is greeted by the hardship of the people.
“I have seen poverty, I have seen suffering”, Nana Addo said.
He criticized the reckless borrowing by the government which he says is responsible for closing the fiscal space of capital investment in the country.
Nana says amateurism and panic measures taken by the government as well as the plundering of the public purse by some government officials has sent many Ghanaians into hardship.
– See more at: http://www.myjoyonline.com/politics/2016/February-29th/running-a-nation-is-a-serious-business-nana-addo.php#sthash.Uole1DLb.dpuf
