Inusah Hails Kufuor's Performance

...Predicts Prosperity, Economic Growth

The controversial former National Campaign Manager of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Alhaji Issaka Inusah, has described the first year of NPP as a period of foundation-laying that will herald an unprecedented period of prosperity and economic growth in this country.

Appraising the performance of NPP's first year in office in an interview with , Monday, this week, he said contrary to the wishes of detractors, the NPP's records so far have been exceptionally wonderful in view of the mess they came to meet .

"There has been peace, tensions have been lowered, security has been very good, freedom of expression has been enhanced and the government is pursuing the Golden Age of Business," he pointed out.

He hailed the President for coming out with the Emergency Social Relief Fund (ESRF), which according to him will relieve the poor from the effects of the shock therapy prescribed by the Bretton Woods Institutions.

The ex-NPP executive whose name is awashed in an avalanch of controversies added that people should not begrudge the government for ensuring full cost recovery and removal of subsidy on social services, noting that they are part of the capitalist's ideology which they all espoused to.

The People's Assembly, according to him lent credence to the NPP's open door policy which gives the downtrodden an unimpeded access to the President and his ministers, adding that it should be continued.

He justified the President's extensive foreign trips, saying they were necessary to attract investors and to mend fences with our neighbours.

This, according to him, has culminated in the appointment of Dr. Chambas as the Executive Secretary of the ECOWAS.

Alhaji Issaka stated that he has a direct contact with the top-hierarchy of the NPP, noting that the Vice-President on his visit to their mosque used a chunk of his time to talk about him and his importance to the NPP.

He is optimistic that the NPP will fulfill all its promises before the end of its four-year mandate because he has confidence in them.

"I know the President intimately, I know he has a vision, and I know he is a man of integrity, he means what he says he will perform his team is a performing team he has no reason to lie or deceive Ghanaians."

Debunking ex-President Rawlings claim that he has re-joined the NPP because of his lack of courage to withstand the perceived harassment and intimidation that were meted out to the NDC members, he contended that the NPP has always been his mother party and he will continue to be loyal to it.

He made a passionate appeal to both NPP and NDC to work in tandem and do away with animosity in order to consolidate the country's fledgling democracy.

"Politics has nothing to do with enmity, lies, bitterness, rancor and vain promises," he pointed out.

Touching on the Reconciliation Act, he affirmed his support for it to be focused on the military regimes because most of the atrocities in the Ghanaian political history were perpetrated in those eras.

According to him, the window of opportunity opened for cases outside those eras serves as a testimony that the NPP has no hidden agenda in the reconciliation process.

The Fast Track Court, according to him, is not fast enough in the administering justice, saying any public officer of the past regime who causes financial loss to the state should be dealt with according to the law.

On whether he will accept any position in the NPP government, he gave assurance of his preparedness to serve in any capacity if he is invited but quickly added that he has no power to arrogate to himself any ministerial position.