[ 2017-02-22 ]

Asiedu Nketia, NDC General Secretary

You cannot deceive people with statistics and get away with it – Nketia to Presi
General Secretary of opposition National
Democratic Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketia has
lashed out at President Akufo-Addo following the
latter’s delivery of the State of the Nation
Address.

President Akufo-Addo presented his first State of
the Nation Address in Parliament Tuesday
highlighting the country he took over from the
previous government in a dilapidated condition.

A visibly disappointed Mr. Nketia described the
President’s figures of the economy inherited
from the NDC’s government as deceitful.

“I don’t know where he picked his sources but
I don’t think that there’s anything that our
administration has said which did not represent
the facts. Because when they were talking about
some hidden expenses and so on, when they were
pushed to the wall, they now said that they were
things that were accruals or whatever… you
cannot deceive people with statistics and get away
with it,” he chided.

The NDC general secretary, however, added that he
couldn’t care less about what the President
presented to the country once he will deliver.

“Whatever it is, I’m not interested in arguing
about the correctness or otherwise about
statistics. The bottom line is that whatever terms
you describe this economy, you were fully aware of
its state before making your promises so I hope he
will not use these statistics to form the basis of
justifying when or why he’s not going to be able
to implement the promises”.

Mr. Nketia further served notice that “we’ll
hold him to his one constituency-one million
dollars per year, we’ll hold him to his free
education from kindergarten to SHS…. He should
come and fix the promises based upon which he was
elected”

In his presentation, President Akufo-Addo
indicated that “the reality of Ghana’s
finances are quite stark as a result of policy
choices” but was quick to add that “I wasn’t
elected by the people to complain… I was elected
to fix what is broken and my government and I are
determined to do just that"

Source - GhanaWeb.com

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