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“Impotent men within the ruling party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) would soon start blaming the NPP for their inability to sleep with their wives.” This is the view of New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Bosomtwi, Simon Osei-Mensah who believes the blame game from the ruling administration is just ‘sickening’.

The member of ECOWAS Parliament speaking on Asempa FM on Tuesday said, he has failed to understand why the government instead of concentrating on solving the numerous problems in the country choose to blame the former administration for the country’s woes.

According to him, a serious minded government would not have chosen to blame the previous administration instead of finding antidotes to age-old problems including the power crisis known in local parlance as dumsor. Mr. Osei-Mensah said he still experiences shock when he hears government communicators insult striking doctors for legitimately demanding what is due them. He diagnosed that the current strikes have come about as a result of long years of mismanagement by the current government. “These numerous strike actions are nothing but symptoms of mismanagement of this country and total failure on the part of government…,” he said.

The Legislator further called on Ghanaians to blame all deaths that would occur as a result of the strike embarked upon by the doctors on the government as it has shown bad faith in its dealings with the doctors. Recounting how members of the executive deliberately leaked the salaries of the Legislature just to cause public uproar against them, Mr. Osei-Mensah said that he believes government did same to achieve similar purpose. “…otherwise why would the government do that during negotiations…?” he asked.