Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central, Isaac Adongo, has claimed the Manifestos of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) is a compilation of Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s lecture notes.
According to him, a careful comparison of the NPP manifesto for the 2016 election with the Vice President’s ‘propaganda but naïve experimental lecture notes’ from 2014 to 215 shows his vision is what metamorphosed into Ghana’s vision and economic policies since 2017 date.
Mr. Adongo was responding to a statement by Dr. Bawumia that he has his vision for Ghana.
The Vice President after successfully filing his nomination to contest the flagbearer of the NPP indicated he has his vision for the country and therefore the most suitable candidate to lead the ruling party in the 2024 presidential election.
He wondered what vision the Vice President has other than what he and President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo have contracted with the International Monetary Fund for the good people of Ghana.
“Amid this gargantuan economic mismanagement, Dr. Bawumia is saying he has a vision for Ghana. What is Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia going to do that he couldn’t do in this government?”
“It is annoying to hear those who drove a car in perfect condition into a ditch now talking about ‘vision’. If they had a vision, Ghana wouldn’t have sunk this low in the first place,” he said.
According to Hon. Adongo, President Akufo-Addo in 2017 told Ghanaians he was relying on the intellectual capacity of Dr. Bawumia to transform Ghana.
“Was Dr. Bawumia not the head of the Economic Management Team that created this mess? Which vision is left to be talked about?”
“The fanciful vision of moving the economy from taxation to production? The 1 village 1 dam he espoused while in opposition? The naive US$1 million per constituency a year that has rather led to massive arrears and commitments?”
“Has Dr. Bawumia’s Establishment of development authorities not become a conduit for siphoning and the looting of public funds? He should speak to it and tell us what the achievements are.”
“1 district 1 factory became a source of fleecing the public purse through the granting of ridiculous tax waivers and painting and co-opting of factories that could be “colonial era” factories as 1D1F factories.”
“Tolling the roads without borrowing led to bankrupt and insolvent Ghana.”
“A policy to clean up and strengthen the financial sector rather led to the collapse of about 422 financial institutions with the remaining ones extremely malnourished waiting to be crushed under the IMF program with a planned GH¢30 billion,” he added.
He described the Vice President as the first Ghanaian economist with the most venomous vision ever for the country and argued if he has any iota of credibility, a modicum of shame in the eye, and respect for Ghanaians, he would stay away from the NPP flagbearership.