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NPP's campaign of falsehood won't succeed - Gov't

“The New Patriotic Party (NPP) as a political party must know that this is not a sustainable path to tread,” he added.

 

Deputy Communications Minister, Felix Kwakye Ofosu said the NPP’s campaign of falsehood against the NDC will not succeed.

“The reason why he has concocted that lie is that when we launched the green book and he saw the achievements sector by sector that we had rolled out, he saw a potent threat in there; in that their campaign of falsehood that we had borrowed money and done nothing was going to be decimated so now he needed to shift the goal post by misleading the public,” he said on Accra-based Joy FM.

Last month, the NPP flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo presented his ‘True State of the Nation Address’ and said government has increased the nation’s debt stock from GHC 9.5 billion in 2008 to about GHC 99 billion as at 2016.

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According to him, the NDC government in dollar terms has borrowed some US$37 billion in 7 years.

The Vice Presidential candidate of the NPP, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia later this week addressed the students of the Jasikan College of Education in the Volta Region and said the President does not know how much his government has borrowed.

Mr. Kwakye Ofosu in response said the NPP’s calculation that the nation’s debt stock is $37 billion is “a malicious lie” which “simply doesn’t make sense.”

“He [Dr. Bawumia] dabbles in what we call a fallacious appeal to authority – I am a Phd holder, I was a deputy governor of the Bank of Ghana so if I say this it must be true,” he added.

The Deputy Minister stressed that government and the people of Ghana will not be “deceived by these contrived claims by Dr. Bawumia because it is a malicious falsehood.”

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