The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has challenged former President JA Kufuor to come out with how his administration intended to build the Bui City which he promised Ghanaians.
According to him, President Kufuor was only building castles in the air when his administration promised Ghanaians that the Bui Hydro Project included a Bui City, which consisted of skyscrapers, a university, among other developments.
The NDC General Secretary was addressing youth organisers from the 10 regions at a conference dubbed ‘2011 Action Year’ in Accra.
Mr Asiedu Nketiah, who is also a board member of the Bui Project, said President Kufuor set a precedent by amending the laws of the country just to become the first President in Ghanaian history to become a board chairman, specifically of the Bui Project.
“There is nothing like Bui City in the Project agreement. And that we will invite former President Kufuor not as a former president, but as a former board chairman of the Bui Project, to tell Ghanaians where the funds for Bui City Project are,” he noted.
He accused the NPP of peddling lies about the project to the extent that, they were claiming that Vice-President John Dramani Mahama had relocated the Bui City Project to the north.
He said apart from the $622 million for the project, there was no funds again for any such project as Bui City.
Mr Asiedu Nketiah stated that no government had survived on vile propaganda and falsehood but unfortunately the NPP believed in such things to the extent that their own members and supporters fell victim to such ugly propaganda.
He said just before the 2008 elections the NPP, in their usual style, succeeded in coming out with opinion polls that sought to put their presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, ahead of then candidate Mills, with a huge percentage difference.
He explained that such falsehood was told consistently to the extent that the NPP supporters and members believed that there was no need to intensify their campaign, because they had already won elections.
Mr Asiedu Nketiah said the NPP also tagged candidate Mills as “Asomdwehen” in a derogatory manner but when they realised that it had backfired, they started calling him a violent person.
This, he said, went on to the extent that the NPP together with its newspapers and radio stations twisted comments Prof. Mills made about power sharing in Kenya.
He said the NPP propagandist claimed that President Mills was interested in power sharing, and even when he held a press conference to state that the NDC was not interested in power sharing like what was then taking place in Kenya, the NPP claimed Prof. Mills was threatening that what had happened in Kenya would be visited on Ghanaians if he did not win the 2008 elections.
“We in the NDC will not pursue falsehood, and will also not reply lies with untruths. Because truth stands and we will continue to be on the side of truth,” he added.
Mr Asiedu Nketiah said the NDC party had also declared 2011 as ‘Action year’ and directed all party executives and members at various levels to set in motion processes and procedures in that direction.
He said this year, the NDC would elect parliamentary and presidential candidates and that the members of the party should not waste their resources and time to respond to the vile propaganda of the NPP, which was aimed at ensuring that the NDC deviated from its better Ghana agenda.
Regarding the infamous ‘All die be die’ comments from Nana Akufo-Addo, Mr Asiedu Nketiah said although such comments showed how violent the NPP and its leadership were and also benefited the NDC, he still believed that the political scene should be decorous.
He attributed the violent and ethnocentric comments from Nana Akufo-Addo to the fact that he had run out of ideas and did not have any alternative policy, programme or strategy for Ghanaians.
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