NPP is peddling falsehood - NDC

AFTER ENDURING strong tongue lashing from its main rival party, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) yesterday returned the salvo, asking Ghanaians not to lap up what it calls the NPP’s falsehoods.

Party General Secretary, Dr. Nii Josiah Aryeh reached via phone by the National Concord brunch time yesterday slammed what he described as the NPP’s penchant to resort to the blame game to deflect attention from its poor handling of the economy. “They should do Ghanaians a favour and stop feeding them with falsehood,” he said.

He said the NPP should not waste its time trying to disprove the legacy of the NDC, because according to him evidence supporting the NDC’s legacy is there for all Ghanaians to see.

He said some of the projects the NDC started are presently being commissioned or nearing completion.

“Even the things that they themselves are commissioning, the launching projects which we see on Television everyday were started by the NDC. So for them to pretend as if they don’t exist is a shame.

“The Aflao road project, the Airport Project, the Kwabenya land fill, the 37 Military hospital project are all there, so they should do Ghanaians a favour and stop the falsehood.

So they should tell Ghanaians what they (Ghanaians) know and see and not peddle those falsehoods, he said.

Reacting to ex-President Rawlings alleged subversive statements, which was the thrust of the NPPs news conference, the NDC scribe said he saw nothing subversive about what ex-President Rawlings said in Kumasi.

“Nothing that the ex-President said in Kumasi is subversive. Maybe the NPP has their own meaning of the word subversion. They can judge that for themselves. They started by suggesting that the vehicles were for subversive activities. I haven’t seen a four wheel drive vehicle being used for subversive activities,” he said.

Commenting on the four land cruisers by the ex-President, he said the acquisition became necessary when some of the four-wheel drive vehicles he was using broke down when he recently travelled to Tamale and Bimbilla. He said some of the vehicles were totally out of order and others were also crashed.

They were really in a position where the former head of state was really more or less disabled because when he travels, for security reasons, he must travel in a convoy. You don’t just travel alone. So that if anybody wants to hit you or whatever he can be protected.”

He said the vehicles were bought by people who were concerned about the ex-President’s safety and who didn’t want him to become vulnerable to attacks or any danger.

“People who were concerned helped him to acquire his vehicles for him to be able to do whatever he has to do in this country and they have a problem with that.”

He said he has a relative who came down from Las Vegas in the USA and he brought6 vehicles nobody has asked him any question. What he did was to go through the normal procedure, which the ex-President went through.

“He paid his taxes and if he didn’t pay his taxes then he can see them questioning him.

If he didn’t pay taxes then he can be questioned but if he pays his taxes, I can see no reason why former President should be questioned.