Former Minister of Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovation, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, has taken his own New Patriotic Party (NPP) to the cleaners.
The former minister and renowned heart surgeon said the party has deviated from their focus on national development and instead delivered a government that resembles a “family, friends, and concubines government.”
He made the remarks in an opinion piece titled, ‘NPP, HOW DID WE GET HERE?’
He expressed concerns over how a group within the NPP who, despite lacking official political appointments or positions within the party structure, wields significant power.
The former appointee identifies individuals who can secure influential societal roles for their associates and allies while also disrespecting and causing problems for the Ghanaian population, a departure from the traditional values of the NPP.
He also notes that Ghana is experiencing a governance style where media control is achieved through bribery and intimidation.
“There are people who claim to be stalwarts of the party; they have neither political appointments nor positions in the party structure. They appear to wield so much power that one of them is described as ‘de facto Prime Minister’ of the country. Apparently, they have what it takes to get their friends and favourites appointed to prominent and powerful positions in society. At the same time, they have the tendency to disrespect and make life difficult for Ghanaians. This is unlike the NPP we know. NPP, HOW DID WE GET HERE?”
“We are being served with a variation of “family, friends, and concubines government”, and control of the press not through violence but through bribery and intimidation. We are witnessing the weaponization of state institutions to silence transformative voices while allowing patronized corruption to flourish. Instead of development in freedom, we are witnessing unprecedented intimidation, economic retrogression, and suffering in silence. NPP, HOW DID WE GET HERE?”
“To make matters worse, the ‘NPP establishment’ is busy promoting a presidential candidate, who to my mind is the most vulnerable and has more baggage than all the aspirants. It is like shopping for a problem when they already have an answer.”
By: Rashid Obodai Provencal/Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
