THE PRESIDENT'S RECORDED IS THE WEAKEST SO FAR-NPP AND PPP

The PPP and the Npp have rebutted President John Mills’ praise of his government's success and economic achievements in his three years of office.

The President is entrusting all his hopes of a second term in office largely based on what he said are his administration's unprecedented achievements in the history of Ghana.

Quoting a stable macro-economy, sound education and a buoyant energy sector, the President said Ghanaians are witnesses to the achievements of his government but was quick to add that there is still more to be done. The administration, he said will not be complacent.

He was been interviewed by some journalists in the US after completing a week-long official tour of the US at the invitation of US President Barack Obama.

But opposition party leaders and some economists have mocked Mills' assertion on the economy and his performance and have categorically said that his chance of winning the election this year is bleak.

, Papa Kwesi Nduom in an interview told Joy News’ Beatrice Adu that President Mills’ administration cannot claim to have achieved unprecedented success in the history of the country.

He said Mills’ achievement is second best to those in the 4th Republic much less the achievement of Ghana’s First President Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.

According to him, the situation on the ground at his hometown in Elmina and Cape Coast does not show any significant improvement.

He also stated the people of Elmina are still living in squalor with most of the children who sat for the just ended BECE failing.

That cannot be a sign of success, he said, challenging the reporter to find out from the president the specific instances where the lives of the people have been transformed.

Policy Analyst of the New Patriotic Party, Kwaku Kwarteng said the president must for once look beyond the fine macro-economic figures.

He told Joy News’ Evans Mensah that the figures must have a direct relation with growth in other sectors of the economy to be meaningful to Ghanaians.

Quoting from the 2012 Budget figures, Mr. Kwarteng said agriculture grew by 2.8 per cent instead of a projected 6 per cent; the manufacturing sector grew by one per cent instead of a projected 7 per cent; Forestry suffered a negative growth of -14 per cent instead of a projected 4.8 per cent.

He said if the good figures do not create jobs for the people then they are worthless.

An economist Theophilus Richardson described as untrue the assertion that the current inflationary rate of 8.6 per cent is unprecedented in the country’s history, saying, the NLC government attained an inflationary rate of 3.4.

He said politicians must be objective and stop “using figures for propaganda.”

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