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In an interview with 'Daily Guide', Minority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has hinted his side would be presenting the true state of the nation on Tuesday. Quoting Article 34 of the constitution, the minority leader said the state of the nation must dwell on the realization of basic human rights, health of the economy, employment and education for the citizenry. Article 34 (2) of the constitution stipulates that �The President shall report to Parliament at least once a year all the steps taken to ensure the realization of the policy objectives contained in this Chapter and, in particular, the realization of basic human rights, a healthy economy, the right to work, the right to good health care and the right to education�. Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, who is also the MP for Suame, Kumasi, in Ashanti Region said Ghanaians would be the better judges whether President Mahama presented the current state of the Ghanaian economy. The NDC administration, he bemoaned, had refused to heed NPP�s advice that its unbridled borrowing would cripple the nation�s economy. According to him, NDC�s uncontrolled borrowing had increased the country�s debt stock from a little above GH�8billion in 2008/9 to a current figure of GH�34 billion. He regretted that with all this borrowing by the NDC administration, the country was still experiencing soaring petroleum prices, widespread load-shedding and flippant power outages, and water rationing in many parts of the country among numerous economic and social problems.