The Trade and Industry Minister has taken a swipe at the biggest opposition party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) by describing their actions and utterances as akin to that of their forebears, the United Party (UP).
According to Dr. Ekow Spio Garbrah, the NPP is attacking President Mahama's unparalleled achievements as far as infrastructural development is concerned because that is the same thing they did to the Nation's first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
". . we know their traits and they are doing all they can to destroy President Mahama and his achievements because it is these same people who in 1966, together with the American CIA overthrew Kwame Nkrumah's government and destroyed over 300 industries he set up.
"Their sole aim was to tell the people of Ghana that Nkrumah had done nothing. And I tell you honestly that the NPP has the attributes of the UP tradition. They have only metamorphosed in name and not character," he told Kwame Nkrumah Tikesie on OKAY FM.
Spio Garbrah further traced the various transformations in name of the political tradition till the present one, NPP, and called on all Ghanaians to disregard all the negative and baseless assertions being made against the person and administration of President Mahama.
"They began by calling themselves the United Party (UP), then Progress Party (PP), later the Popular Front Party (PFP) and now the New Patriotic Party (NPP) so they have always changed in name but their character and members remain," he claimed.
Dr. Ekow Spio Garbrah made this statement on the back of a promise by the Presidential Candidate of the NPP, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo to build one factory in each district and also one dam in a village across the length and breadth of Ghana, should he be voted into power as President.
". . we would have been far ahead by this time, we assembled many things including radio sets, refrigerators, we had the Nsawan Cannery where we canned fruits and vegetables. We had a glass factory and a sugar factory . . . all these were run down by the UP tradition, now NPP, so we must be wary when we hear them talk about 'one district, one factory' because it is deceitful."
To him, the only hope to this country at this moment is President John Dramani Mahama because he is leading the way to revamp all the factories that were destroyed.
" . . he is the one who has been able to put life in the Komenda and Asutwari Sugar Factories after the forefathers of the NPP ruined them over forty years ago," he said.
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I pitty you those insulting the president,NDC and anybody that said anything good about the current government, small boys are young they say. You children of current generation will learn anything, all you know is to insult keep it up.
It very clear in the Statement of Spio that he has lost touch with Modern Politics. Is Spio more CPP than Samia, Blay, and Kwaku Baako, yet they and many others finds the common ground to do business with NPP just as Pratt, Ben Ephson and co. do business with NDC. Spio seems to be lost in the recent NDC campaign and he just made the statement to catch the attention of his fellow NDC and Ghananians that "folksI I am around." Unfortunately he hits over the bar. Spio come back again with a better message for you missed the target.
u think by saying this, NDC supporters will choose u as their flagbearer for next election? plssssss then think again.
Komenda sugar factory sef, you no fit manage. shay shay shay
This is very true. It is exactly 50 years this 2016 that these nation wreckers turned the clock of progress and development backwards. This time they wont succeeed. God loves Ghana so much that after 50 years in the wilderness our transformation is about to begin and it will happen in the sight of the nation wreckers who truncated Nkrumah's works. Nkrumah has transferred the spirit of development and one Ghana to Mahama and nothing can fight it. NPP will suffer their worst defeat in this elections and they will not know what hit them
Look at this man tooo. Spio you are a disappointment. You open your mouth and talk nkwaceacem all the time. Go and paste your mouth.
Spio, please note that NPP has been consistent campaining on the achievements of Pr. Kufour during his Administration. Why is it that Spio is not making references to Rawlings achievements of which he played a part as then a Minister. That would have been very recent in the memories of Ghanaians.
oooh!! folks,don't you know these fantes. they are soooooo! lazy to the core.ofosu ampofo,seth terkper,ablakwa and even the vice president are all on the field compaighning for ndc but you are in abroni wewu suit speaking garbage. go and help the ndc win the elections you lazy man.
NKRUMAH DIDN'T USE HIS MONEY, MAHAMA IS NOT USING HIS MONEY.IF PRESIDENCY IS ABOUT BORROWING AND USING GHANA'S MONEY FOR DEVELOPMENT FOR THE CITIZENRY TO SUFFER, THEN ANY **** CAN BE A PRESIDENT. ROME WAS NOT BUILT IN A DAY. IT IS BECAUSE OF THE CREATING, ***barred word*** AND SHARING THAT IS WHY YOU ARE EMBARKING ON PROJECTS TO GET WHAT YOU WANT. GHANAIANS NEED JOBS. SINCE YOU CAME TO POWER, THE TOLLS YOU INCREASED BY 100% UNDER ANY COMPETENT GOVERNMENT LIKE NKRUMAH WOULD HAVE CATERED FOR ALL THE ROADS YOU HAVE BORROWED TO MAKE. DON'T! NEVER! COMPARE MAHAMA TO NKRUMAH. IT IS A MISMATCH.
Unless Spio has kept his own council and has realized that he has been infested with Mahama-Administration's incompetence and he better seek refuge from the competence of Nkrumah but not Rawlings.And yet Spio has lost his reasons.