Sammy Awuku, NPP Deputy Communications Director, has bemoaned recent happenings under President Mahama's administration.
According to him, government is strangling poor people in the nation by the tariff increments.
A couple of weeks ago, the Public Utility and Regulatory Commission announced new tariff adjustments.
Tariffs
on electricity were increased by 78.9% while consumers are expected to
pay 52% tariffs for their water supply. This new development has since
posed a threat to Ghanaians who find it difficult to pay the new
tariffs.
Speaking to Oman FM, Sammy Awuku was of the view that
government’s inability to combat corruption has led to the economic
crises confronting Ghanaians.
To him, since the inception of the
NDC government under the leadership of President Mahama, there have not
been any financial administrative laws to check corruption in the
country.
Sammy Awuku asserted that unlike the erstwhile Kufour
government which, according to him, made several interventions to
improve the lives of Ghanaians, the incumbent government's quest to end
corruption has turned out to be nothing but just a total mirage.
"The
government fighting corruption is a mirage and the government, itself,
is involved in lot of corrupt deals…I do not foresee how this government
can fight corruption because the government, itself, is totally corrupt
and the vehicle they travel on is the vehicle that always leads us to
corruption.” he stated, further urging Ghanaians to show the government
the exit, come 2016.
“Ghana must see change in 2016.”
Contributing
to the panel discussion programme on the station, the Managing Editor
of the Daily Searchlight, Ken Kuranchie was also of a strong view that
the Mahama government lacks foresight and failed to make any better
initiatives to salvage the economy.
He stated emphatically that
the government "has lost the moral right. It has lost direction. In
fact, it has not made any effort to fight corruption.”
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