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General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic
Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia says President Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo on Thursday, February 20, 2020, delivered the State of Nation
address of a different country other than Ghana.
According to him during the delivery, he was
convinced that the President was living in another country and talked about
their state other than the country he governs, as everything he said is
completely different from the reality.
Speaking on Okay FM , General Mosquito as he is
popularly known wondered why President Akufo-Addo could look in the face of
Ghanaians to say that the country is in a good shape and doing well in a
competent hand.
“Akufo-Addo has looked into the face of God and
Ghanaians and said that Ghana is working effectively. What came to my mind is
that maybe the President is living in a different country and he is talking
about them, and the rest of us are living in Ghana . . . because all the things
he said about the nation, I see it that he is describing another country and
not this Ghana we live in,” he said.
He charged the media to engage the public to
solicit their opinions regarding the State of the Nation which President
Akufo-Addo talked about on the floor of Parliament.
He said he believes that the majority of
Ghanaians share the same view with him that the President described another
country.
“I also believe that if you should go out to ask
people to tell you if they believe that the President was addressing the state
of Ghana, majority of Ghanaians will tell you that the President was addressing
another country and not Ghana,” he asserted.
He maintained that all the things the President
claimed to be the case are contrary to the reality, thus, it is painful to hear
the President say that the NHIS is working effectively when the service
providers have threatened to withdraw their services and start the Cash and
Carry System again by the end of this month if the government fails to pay
their one-year arrears.
He was of the view that President Akufo-Addo
should have been truthful to Ghanaians about the difficulties and hardships the
country is experiencing in order to win the sympathy of the citizens to stand
by the government than to anger them with a false address.
The Minority in Parliament on Thursday
dramatically boycotted this year’s State of the Nation Address [SoNA] without
giving any ‘tangible’ reason.
The Minority organized a press conference
addressed by the Minority Leader, Hon. HarunaIddrisu in Parliament to explain
their action.
According to them since becoming President of
our republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has conducted the affairs of state
with the kind of “tyranny, despotism and authoritarianism” that
frightens many objective observers.
