Prez Akufo-Addo is Sleeping on the Job; not Touch with Reality- MP for Wenchi
THE Member of Parliament for Wenchi, Hon Seidu Haruna has described President Akufo-Addo-led New Patriotic Party (NPP) government as shambolic and lacking ideas for the solution to Ghana’s development problems.
According to him, the message the President delivered to parliament in his State of the Nation Addressed (SONA) on Wednesday, March 8, indicated that President Akufo-Addo has lost touch with the reality of the country’s economic problems and the development needs of the people.
Hon Seidu made these comments in response to the President’s claims that the country is on track and that much has not been lost.
In his view, the President is not in touch with reality. Today, people cannot say anything against this government and get away. The Media have all been gaged and they dare speak or publish anything against the President of Akufo Addo, so I think the President is sleeping and must wake up.
“He appears to be sleeping and dozing off on the job and taking the Ghanaians for granted,” the Wenchi Member of Parliament said.
While delivering the state of the nation, President Akufo-Addo rebuffed accusations his government has been reckless in its borrowing and spending.
He said the government has spent the money on very urgent things including building roads and schools, training young people, and equipping them to face a competitive world.
“Considering the amount of work that still needs to be done on the state of our roads, the bridges that have to be built, considering the number of classrooms that need to be built, the furniture and equipment needs at all stages of education, considering the number of children who should be in school and are not, considering the number of towns and villages that still do not have access to potable water, I daresay no one can suggest we have over-borrowed or spent recklessly,” he said.
According to the President, he has been in a hurry to get things done that includes the massive developments in agriculture, education, health, irrigation, roads, rails, ports, airports, sea defense, digitization, social protection programs, industrialization, and tourism.
The government, he said, can justifiably be proud of the many things it has managed to do in the past six years.
“As I go around the country, I hear the pleas for roads, schools, and hospitals, and as the rainy season comes I wish, as every other Ghanaian does, that we would have built more drains than we have. And I wish we had the resources to do more,” he added.
But the MP for Wenchi said the president was completely out of reality and that, the so call roads constructed could not be traced anywhere in the country, and that if there were such roads, the President and his appointees would have been in a hurry to commission them.
He also questioned the president’s claims that the One District one Factory has yielded dividends, then why would the government import more than export?
Source: expressnewsghana.com
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