The Hypocrisy of NPP & Co

The 'Ghana Palaver' writes that the Kufuor Administration, still refusing to accept blame for the present fuel-price crisis, has now turned to Ghanaians to bear with the Government for any price hike, which it now considers as an "economic necessity."

It said without rendering any apology to the past Government and the nation for threatening to plunge the country into utter confusion if there had been any price increases during the past year, the New Administration has been behaving "as if it awoke from sleep only yesterday to meet the fuel crisis."

The paper recalls a street demonstration by leaders of the present administration, including President Kufuor and other political party heads and their supporters in Accra, only about 14 months ago against any such increase despite the rocketing of the world market price of the commodity.

It says in their plea for forbearance, it is Dr Wereko-Brobby's sudden twist in positions that baffles Ghanaians most for at the time of the protest, the U.G.M. leader had even gone on air to threaten court action against the NDC Administration for the last fuel price increase.

He, playing to the gallery, claimed that the government could still function well, if it absorbed the heat from the world price.

It said observers wonder whether the "Energy expert" by opposing the price increases, at the time he joined his colleagues in that protest march, wanted everything to be "rough-going " in Ghana for, a period of 14 months, it is generally believed, cannot separate facts from fiction.

It said strangely, enough, President Kufuor in his recent Sessional Address laid the blame for the subsidy at the doorstep of the past Government. "Are these people daft... or criminal hypocrites," the Palaver asked.