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The New Patriotic Party presidential aspirant for the 2012 General Election Nana Akufo-Addo has taken a swipe at the Mills’ administration describing it as tenure of incompetence and lawlessness.Addressing journalists and hundreds of party supporters on Wednesday to kick-start his nationwide campaign ahead of the party’s primaries on August 07, 2010, Nana Addo said the maladministration of the NDC government has eroded the investor confidence and huge economic gains chalked by the NPP before leaving power.He said the country is now “moving backwards slowly but surely,” in apparent retaliation to President Mills who said he was performing and achieving results slowly but surely.Quoting copiously figures from a World Bank report, Nana Addo posited that that 7.4 million Ghanaians were under the poverty line in 1992 when the population was only 15.4 million.In 1999, one year before the Rawlings led NDC government left power 7.2 million Ghanaians were still under the poverty line with a population well over 18 million.According to him, in 2006, five years into the administration of the NPP, poverty was greatly reduced as a result of an effective economic management and solid social interventions.The total number of Ghanaians still under the poverty line was thus reduced to 6.3 million, he quoted.With the assumption of office by the NDC, Nana Addo said (quoting estimates of the World Bank report) half a million more Ghanaians are predicted to fall back to the poverty line due to the poor economic policies of the government.“Incomes have fallen in just one year of a better Ghana,” he said, adding with the economy shrinking at a faster rate the government cannot claim to be “creating jobs, except 1.6 million phantom ones.”Nana Addo further castigated the credential of the president who is widely touted as “Asomdwee Hene”- King of Peace, saying under the Asomdwee Hene, peace in the country is eroding.He said the 16 month administration of the NDC is characterized by “incompetence, lies, hypocrisy, and lawlessness,” adding “law and order has broken down under the era of Asomdwee Hene-King of Peace.
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