The leader of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), Mr Dan Lartey, has said statistical evidence of progress being touted by the government has not enhanced the living conditions of the people. “The masses deserve real changes in their conditions of life rather than the statistics being touted by functionaries of the current administration of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as a measure of progress and development of the country,” he said. Addressing a national executive committee meeting of the party in Accra on Wednesday, Mr Lartey said the living conditions of the vast majority of People had deteriorated to indescribable levels under the NPP. The meeting examined the state of the party's structures across the country and also mapped out a programme for the successful holding of its congress scheduled for Kumasi. According to the GCPP leader, people in the country were living in abject poverty, which was the result of unproductive policies and programmes implemented by the NPP in the last seven years. He said parents could not adequately feed their children, pay their school fees, defray their electricity and water bills as well as remit their relations in the countryside. The GGPP leader described as ironical the situation where the government was “praising to the high heavens, the state of the economy and yet the masses are groaning under the weight of rapid increases in the prices of goods and services”. “The party has witnessed on a daily basis, sharp increases in the prices of goods and services which have invariably eroded to a considerable extent, the real incomes of the people," Mr. Lartey said. The GCPP leader, therefore, called on the electorate to reject the NPP in the next general election by voting massively for the GCPP to properly manage the affairs of the country. “The electorate would be subjected to more stringent economic policies, which will reduce them to paupers in the land of their birth, if they retain the NPP in the December polls to misgovern the country,” the GCPP leader said. Mr. Lartey said a GCPP government would undertake a green revolution that will ensure the production of food in large quantities for sale to the masses at reasonable prices and also create surplus for export to other countries in the West African sub-region. He described the importation of food into the country by the government as shameful “when nature has endowed the country with thousands of hectares of fertile lands, which when cultivated, could feed the people and save scarce foreign exchange, which could be channeled into other areas of development”. Source: Daily Graphic