Mr Bright Oduro Kwarteng, Vice Chairman of the United Kingdom and Ireland branch of the Convention People?s Party (CPP) has said that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has failed to live up to the expectations of the Ghanaian electorate.

Speaking in an interview on WBLS, a pro-NPP radio station in London, Mr Oduro Kwarteng said he had personally been disappointed by the NPP, which he vigorously campaigned for in 2000. I am highly disappointed because the NPP is continuing to implement the same economic programme which was initiated by the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) and implemented for 17 years with disastrous consequences.

?The HIPC initiative and the Structural Adjustment Programme are all one and the same. There is no difference between the two,? he said. Mr Oduro Kwarteng said the conditions attached to HIPC are even more severe and anti-people. He listed some of these conditions as the privatization of utility services including water and electricity and the sale of Ghana Commercial Bank to foreign private interests.

Mr Oduro Kwarteng, who doubles aw the Gyantuahene of Agona Swedru said as a result of the continued implementation of neo-liberal policies. The living conditions of Ghanaians have worsened since the NPP assumed power in 2001. On the chances of the CPP in the up-coming elections. Mr Kwarteng said the party has a lot of work to do in a

relatively short period. He said the main task of the opposition in the elections. Mr Kwarteng said the party has a lot of work to do in a relatively short period. He said the main task of the opposition in the elections is to unseat the New Patriotic Party and called on the opposition to close its ranks. ?We have a duty to ourselves to unseat Kufuor and the NPP and we have to come together to be to do that.? He said.