The District Chief Executive for Talensi, Thomas Duanab Wuni has chastised the leadership and bigwigs of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for living lavishly when the masses are facing hardships.
Mr. Duanab argued that the NDC, which is a socialist party, failed in its close to 2 decades rule to implement a single social intervention policy that would cushion ordinary Ghanaians especially in times of crisis.
Rather, its leadership and stalwarts have amassed huge wealth and are now living opulent lifestyles while the poor, whose interest their party’s ideology mandates them to protect, are experiencing untold hardships, the DCE stated.
This, for him, is an indication that the party and its leadership do not have Ghanaians at heart and thus, their campaign for a return to the presidency must not be entertained.
“The supposed socialists whom I consider petty bourgeoisie’s who will always pretend that they are socialites and they are working for the people but have never brought any pro poor policy into this country. But they just come and talk, ‘Im a socialites’.
Socialites riding V8s and calling yourselves socialites? They’re running here up and down in their big cars and they are claiming that they’re socialites”.
Thomas Duanab said this while cataloguing the progress Ghana has made under governments of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
According to him, the NPP, though subscribes to capitalism, has implemented the most pro-poor policies aimed at alleviating poverty and bettering the living condition of Ghanaians.
The NPP and its members have always prided themselves on being pro-poor despite their capitalist ideology. They seize the least opportunity to tout their record in initiating and implementing social intervention policies and programmes, which they claim, have significantly improved the living condition of Ghanaians.
They have, on several occasions, called out the NDC for failing to initiate a single social intervention policy despite their socialist ideology.
But for the NDC, the governing party lack understanding of the concept of social intervention.
They argue the provision of infrastructural projects, which they claim to have unmatched record in, is equally pro-poor hence, the NPP cannot claim monopoly over the initiation of such policies and programmes.
