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| Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. |
Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi
Pratt Jnr. has said that the National Democratic Congress, which is the primary
opposition party, is an ineffective opposition party.
While making submissions on the Alhaji and Alhaji
show, a weekend news analysis programme on Pan African TV, Mr. Pratt stated that
the government was having a field day in imposing hardship because the NDC was
doing little to nothing to stop it.
In Pratt's opinion, the NDC's strategy to counter
government policies that have all but piled misery and hardship on the ordinary
Ghanaian was failing miserably. Pratt said this while stating that the NDC was
failing miserably.
“This government has put it hands into the mouth
of the people and found out that there is no teeth so it has started slapping
the head of the people. if there is teeth government will not continue playing
with citizens.
“The power and voice of people and of mobilization
is not there anymore, and if it does not come back, we will continue to suffer
worst conditions.”, he said.
He cited how the NDC failed to get anything from a
move to injunct the Electronic Transfer (E-Levy, through the Supreme Court. “If
we continue to get this docile and ineffective opposition, we are in trouble”,
he cautioned.
A fellow panelist and former NDC MP Inusah Fuseini
defended the Minority in Parliament stating that their current strategy of
opposing bad policies was continuing unabated in Parliament
“I can’t agree to what my comrade Kwasi Pratt has
said probably it is a change of strategy I say probably it is a change of strategy
because opposition to government policy is actively fought in Parliament.”
"I can say without any fear of contradiction
that many of the scandals. policy inconsistencies have originated largely from
Parliament with the support of Civil Society Organizations, Fuseini added
Pratt in response to the strategy defense put up
by Fuseini, hit back saying that, the strategy excuse is not true and whatever
the strategy is, ought to result in the minimization of the suffering of the
people.
“If it is a strategy. it is a bogus strategy
because it is not working at all. The hardship is getting exacerbated hour by hour,
day by day and week by week, so it is a bogus strategy which ought to be
abandoned as quickly as possible.”
“It gets worse when the masses get defeated and
the aspirations of the masse get defeated. The situation is getting completely
out of hand.” Pratt stressed warning that the consequence from a spill over
will badly affect the well-to-do and the political class as history has shown.
Source: ghananews.hrforum.uk
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