Gov’t, NDC know I told them the truth – Ivor

General Secretary of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Ivor Greenstreet has told Starr news that his blunt message about corruption, irregular power supply and the uncaring nature of the Government are truths well known by members of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC).

Greenstreet on Saturday, December 20, 2014 told President John Mahama and Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur in the face at the NDC’s congress that: “You don’t care”.

“Nobody is feeling your better Ghana”, Greenstreet shouted when he delivered his party’s solidarity message to the NDC at the congress at the Baba Yara Stadium in the Ashanti regional Capital, Kumasi – stronghold of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).

In the full glare of the President, Vice President, former President Jerry Rawlings, and thousands of leaders and supporters of the NDC, a defiant Greenstreet said: “…Currently nobody, I mean nobody is feeling your better Ghana.”

“Continuous ‘dumsor dumsor,’ corruption from top to bottom, left right inside out, and all the challenges you are facing [are] suffocating the Ghanaian people.”

He added: “We would have thought that perhaps you may have used an occasion like this to discuss policies, programmes and solutions to all the difficulties we are facing as a nation, but no, you chose today to share your Christmas gifts with each other.”

“Ghanaians are not happy at all. This ‘bronya’ is dry. Too too dry,” he told the President, adding: “The most painful thing of all is that you don’t care.”

“NDC continue, we are watching you, Ghana is watching you, do what you want to do, we also know what we’ll come and do…make sure you’ll elect executives who will be able to steer your party's affairs when you are in opposition. Boys abr3.”

Leaders and supporters of the NDC and Government have called Greenstreet names after his comments. The President described the criticism as smacking of “incurable selective myopia. Majority Leader Alban Bagbin said the Lawyer was demon-possessed and presidential staffer Sam George wrote on his Facebook wall that the wheelchair-bound politician needed “elevation to see the Better Ghana.”

Greenstreet later told Tawakalitu Braimah in an interview that despite the attacks on him, he believed the NDC and the Government knows very well that the things he spoke about are the truth.

“I spoke what most of they themselves know is the truth and I hope that will spur them on to greater things.”

He urged the President to interact with ordinary Ghanaians to get a firsthand feel of the frustration he talked about.