Botwe Deflects Criticism

NEW PATRIOTIC Party (NPP) General Secretary, in an instant rebuff of the attacks, has asked the National Democratic Congress critics to stop being childish.

"How can the 15 minutes participation by the President in the Commonwealth Games marathon be said to be a misplaced priority?" He asked when reached for comm

Botwe also denied political harassment of opponents claimed by Ahwoi and the failure of the NPP to fulfil their campaign promises.

"No fair-minded Ghanaian can say we have failed because we were solidly laying the foundations to better the lot of all Ghanaians."

On the NPP forming a bigger cabinet and keeping more ministerial aides, he contrasted his government's 71 ministers with the NDC's over 80, drawing attention to the fact that some NPP government ministers have no deputies, even though the NDCs had both deputies and special aides.

The General-Secretary debunked the NDC's hue and cry over supposed harassment, botched arrests and political victimisation as inferior tactics to douse sustained inquisition into their 18-year stewardship.

For "how many of their ministers and top executives have been arraigned before an investigative body?" He asked.

On the allegation that the current government is being treated with kid's gloves by the media, he drew attention to the fact that at President Kufuor's maiden press encounter and several other times, the government had been put on the carpet by the media.

But his government is not blundering and showing the level of intransigence the NDC did to draw the flak of the media, he concluded.