" I Don’t Carry Water – Angry Mills Charges

Date: 05-Jun-2010

Sounding angry, robust and cheeky, President John Evans Atta Mills yesterday asked whether he is carrying water on his head, when asked about the oft-stated perception that his presidency is slow at providing amenities and implementing policies. "

I don't carry water, that is the mawkish answer President Mills gave to BBC's Bilkis Labaran who interviewed him yesterday and inquired about the charge that, he is slow in his Presidential assignments. The cool Mr President we thought is unflappable went bathos and resorted to all kinds of excuses to explain his failing presidency.

This President is now full of hate towards his two predecessors. He first went after Rawlings, albeit doing it through innuendos. He thought the Questioneer was referring to Rawlings charge that, he was not sending his opponents to prison which he cheekily retorted, "If anybody thought he was slow at putting people in jail, he said, “I have no apologies”, explaining that as a lawyer, he believed in having investigations conducted rather than arbitrarily jailing individuals."

This President is not getting the message. Either he is still spending too much time cocooned at the castle drinking milo with bread and butter he doesn't know what is going on or his aides are not giving him the right information. MR PRESIDENT, YOU ARE MESSING THE ECONOMY UP.

When Labaran brought his attention to the increase in utilitiy taxes, electricity and water and what relief he has for Ghanaians, that pushed him over the edge and like a teflon and oleaginous President that he is, started blaming the previous administration by saying that 40-year-old pipes which needed replacements did not receive attention during Kufuor’s tenure, saddling his government today with fresh challenges..

Whew!! Now it is President Kuffour's fault he has to increase electricity and water taxes, the same man that carried a placard with words, "Kuffour, your taxes are killing the poor working people" and demonstrated with Kwesi Pratt on the principal streets of Accra has had a Saul to Paul metamorphosis moment, now taxes are not that bad at all and poor folks are not going to be killed by the one he is proposing and should shut up and pay. This man is talking about this problem being in existence for about forty years and President Kuffour did not do anything about it, has he forgotten that, he was the Vice Presdent before when the problem was thirty years old and he and his who born dog President did not do anything about it? What name do I need to coin for this President now? I coined the name President Committee for him when he was forming committees to solve little problems lke when he has to take his nose bleed medicine and what time to eat and he stopped that, maybe PRESIDENT EXCUSES might put a stop to this irresponsible behaviour too.

Mills went ballistic like his who born dog Boss Rawlings when fumed like this;

“What did they do in the eight years that they were in power?” he huffed. Continuing to lash at former President Kufuor, he asked what the former Head of State did about the West Africa Gas Pipeline Project when he was in charge of the country for eight years. In direct reference to the erstwhile government, he charged, “They have no moral right in criticizing me for what they could not do, unwilling to do or neglected to do”, adding however that he was ready to accept criticisms when these were constructive."

President Mills is not seventy years yet, is he? Senility has not set in yet, has it? THEY HAVE NO MORAL RIGHT TO CRITICISE YOU FOR WHAT THEY COULD NOT DO? President Mills, tell us you did not say that. Did you have the moral right to criticise the Kuffour government during their eight years rule for trying to fix the mess you and your who born dog Boss left behind in 2001? If you think you did, then what moral right did you have at that time to criticise them? So telling you that increasing taxes on water and electricity will increase the plight of the poor folks is not constructive?

SIR MILLS, YOU ARE NOT A KING BUT A PRESIDENT AND SHOULD LEARN TO ACCEPT CRTICISM INSTEAD OF TRYING TO PENUMBRATE YOURSELF.

He then went on to assure his fan fool soldiers that, he will avail himself for the Presidency in 2012. Mr Atta the President, that is your prerogative and nobody can take that from you but get ready for the challenge coming from Yaa Konadu Agyeman Rawlings and her husband. You are going to rile the day you gave those two that five million dollars because they are going to use that money to unseat you, mark it on the wall. "For those who will entertained doubts about President Mills’ availability as a 2012 candidate, he duly dispelled this during the interview when he declared he would definitely stand."

He said he needed another term to complete the work he had started.'AGYEI, YAWUOO!!!'. What work has he started? The only achievement this administration can claim credit for is the reduction of inflation to 11.6% but it was negatively achieved. This reduction was not achieved with a robust economy but by contracting our economy. Instead of the economy growing as NPP did by increasing it from a pitiful 3.8 billion economy in 2001 to 17.3 billion economy in eight years, a fourfold increase Mills administration for just eighteen(18) months being in office had reduced the economy to 14.8 billion and not importing enough petrol to stimulate the economy has accounted for the reduction in inflation and that is not good. We are increasing our population and reducing the economy is a road to disaster and that is what IMF and World Bank have instructed Agya Atta to do for the next five years.

Sir Atta Mills, we apopreciate you for doing nothing but we cannot afford you for another four more years when your first two brought misery to the masses. You are lucky we don't have a recall law in our electoral laws or we would have started that process already. You and your administration are not financially innovative enough. The only solution you have in addressing any financial problem is either to tax the poor folks to the moon instead of building the tax base with more employees and spreading the tax around or borrowing money. Your administration is the only one that call loans as windfall. Since you assumed office not even two years ago, you've borrowed more than 4 billion dollars.

Business News of Saturday, 9 May 2009 Source: Daily Graphic $3.2b windfall for GhanaEmail this Share This

»The recent Spring Meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in Washington, DC, has earned Ghana about $3.2 billion to support its economy and development projects. About $2.2 billion of the amount is expected to come from the World Bank essentially for budget support programmes, while the remaining $1 billion support from the IMF is to shore up the country's foreign exchange reserves.

FOUR MORE YEARS? THANK YOU SIR BUT WE CANNOT AFFORD FOUR MORE MESSY YEARS.

Justice Sarpong

Houston, Texas