Is it true that ...

*The Manifesto, "A Better Ghana", launched in Kumasi on 31st July 2004, caught the NPP completely unawares, especially in relation to the quality of the document and the bravado of the NDC in launching it in the NPP's own backyard of Kumasi that a crisis meeting of the NPP Campaign Strategy Group was held soon after the NDC's Kumasi Road Show which lasted deep into the night, ending at about 1 o'clock a.m, with the decision that the NPP revise its previous position of not writing a Manifesto and quickly put together its own Manifesto Drafting Committee with a mandate to prepare a draft Manifesto as soon as possible and submit it to the leadership of the Party for consideration, but with a warning to avoid the kind of promises contained in the Party's 2000 Manifesto which have become an albatross around the Party's neck, and without the kind of plagiarism of the NDC's Manifesto policies and programmes which enabled the NDC to describe the NPP's 2000 Manifesto as "a set of stolen policies"?

*The NPP Government's policy of a "free for all" to be introduced at the Tema and Takoradi ports latest by 1st January 2005 as announced by the Minister of Ports, Harbours and Railways, Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Ekumfi, is really meant to favour the NPP who have an interest in it like the CTL owned by NPP financiers B. A. Mensah and Krobo Edusei and some German partners as well as the Director General of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) himself who happens to be the nephew of President J. A. Kufuor, Mr. Ben Owusu-Mensah, and that the policy will be unfair and confer undue advantage on the NPP who have been promised a certain monthly payment in currency denominated in foreign money and which payment it is not unlikely that the Director General of the GPHA may also benefit from, which may explain why the Director General is so keen to embrace a policy that all experts in the port business acknowledge is bad for the GPHA in particular and bad for Ghana in general?