GHANAIANS URGED TO REJECT NDC (PAGE 12, JAN 13, 2011)

THE Upper West Regional Second Vice Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Hafiz Bin Salih, has called on Ghanaians to reject the National Democratic Congress (NDC) during the 2012 general elections.
That, he said, was because the NDC government lacked ideas, resulting in the decisions of the government telling negatively on Ghanaians after two years in power.
Mr Bin Salih mentioned the increase in petroleum prices and the promise by the then candidate Mills to put money in people’s pockets when the NDC won power as some of the promises made during the 2008 campaign which had not been fulfilled.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic in Wa in the Upper West Region, Mr Bin Salih said even if there was a change at all, that change had been for the worse, adding that “I anticipate a gloomy year for the country in spite of the fact that they have declared this year an action year.”
On education, he said two years after coming into office, the NDC government was yet to meet the infrastructure needs, particularly in the two premier tertiary institutions in the Upper West Region.
“We are yet to see any new infrastructure at the Wa campus of UDS and also the Wa Polytechnic. This situation, coupled with an increase in admissions in these schools, is really over-stretching the existing facilities thereby bringing lots of hardships to students,” he stressed.
Mr Bin Salih said in addition, many of the six-unit classroom blocks under construction for senior high schools across the country to house form one students were also yet to be completed.
That situation, he said, had led to many first year senior high school students still attending classes in dining halls, libraries and in laboratories.
Mr Bin Salih said instead of coming out with a policy direction to move the country towards the direction of prosperity and improvement in the lives of the people, the government was rather running down programmes introduced by the former government.
He noted that the NPP was very focused and that its Presidential Candidate, Nana Akufo Addo, would not leave any stone unturned, come the 2012 presidential elections, saying the NPP would expose the lapses of the NDC as well as make Ghanaians aware of its failures.