Vice President Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has promised to take on each line of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s recent lecture and expose the lies in each line. The Vice president, who shelved his initial plan to respond to the lecture by the running mate of NPP’s Akufo-Addo at one sitting, said such lies are better exposed on political platforms because what Dr. Bawumia did was pure politics instead of economics.
Speaking at the party’s manifesto launch in Sunyani Saturday, Mr. Amissah-Arthur who is a former governor of Bank of Ghana accused Dr. Bawumia, who is also a former deputy governor of Bank of Ghana, of “trying to use figures to bamboozle” Ghanaians for political gain. The lecture was themed, “State of the Ghanaian Economy – A Foundation of Concrete or Straw.” But instead of doing justice to the economic situation in the country, Dr. Bawumia rather chose to engage in “spurious analysis”, he claimed. Insisting that the lecture was full of lies, the Vice President stated that claims that the NPP government between 2001 and 2008 increased Ghana’s GDP to 459 percent is false. “If even the economy improves by 8 percent by a year, you only double that GDP in 9 years.” he explained, “How is it possible that the economy that was not growing at 8 percent, [but] at 3 percent, 4 percent and so on that in 8 years some doctor is saying it grew by almost 500 percent, it is not possible. He is using figures to deceive us.”
Also, he said Bawumia’s comparison of what the NPP was able to do with a certain amount vis-à-vis what the NDC was able to do when it took over from the NPP as flawed. “So I have decided that everywhere we go I will take one of his lies and explain to you why they are lies. So don’t believe what you read. “I only got my copy of the things he said he read three days ago and when I read it, every line there is a lie there, I can destroy that line.” Mr. Amissah-Arthur is therefore promising to take on “another one of the lies” when on his tour to the Ashanti and Eastern regions.
Source: 3news.com
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NDC is a garrbage party. I will join the millions of Ghanaians who will say a big "NO" to NDC. Mahama/NDC have had more resources to make Ghana better but have failed to help us. People are jobless, food and rent are expensive, we are not getting what we deserve after 8 years of NDC. 12 years is too much for one party to take us for granted. Rawlings used 19years and when he was going we were HIPC. We cannot let bad people stay in government for more than 8 years. Mahama and NDC must go to opposition and have a new look at things from there. Vote for Change to make Ghana better. 8 years of NDC is enough. It is time for change.
I must admit Ghanaians that I cannot respond adequately to Dr Bawumia, I must have slept through my a Economics lectures. Please forgive me a Ghana. The NPP can do better, I am just a sad appendage of JDM, pray for me.
Please submit your certificates to WAEC for scrutiny. You look too docile to hold a Masters. You lack credibility. You know next to othing and you want to challenge Bawumia. You have not written and presented and public lecture since you were sheepish;y pushed into office. You are left with little or no credibility. You want to respond to Bawuma on campaign platform. Did Bawumia attack NDC on campaign platform. You are not behaving like an academic. Of course you are not one. Shame on you. Are you sure the certificate with which you got that Bank of Ghana job are yours or bought?
who is this mugu calling somebody Dr B what about you
Ah Amissah Arthur!! wasaa papa!! campaign plateforms paa?? oh soo pathethic!!!
Mammal....reptile ***barred word***.you are nothing but a d.u.n.c.e
Masa Masa, wabon. Can you compare yourself to Dr. Bawumia? TIWUI. KEEP QUIET AND LET THE DR. TALK!!!
very pathetic this message is coming from someone who was handpicked to replace the man (Atta Mills) killed by NDC hawks.. Atta Mills will come and haunt you one day. You just cant compare yourself to Bawumia. It did not take IMANI more than 24 hours to respond, how much more a whole Government. I bow down my head when I hear such things. NDC is only full of liars and breeding more..
If you think you a true economist with integrity, respond in like manner like Bawumia. Bring out your facts and let's analyse the two. Don't hid on campaign platform to churn out lies to party faithfully. You make me believe that u are not a man with balls.