A regional communicator for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Patrick Yaw Awuku, has asserted that there are people who are only working and doing things to tarnish the image of the ruling government.
This comes on the back of recent downgrading by Fitch.
Speaking to Kwaku Dawuro on Movement in the morning show on Wontumi Radio/Movement TV, he said that “why should we be in our country and allow some people to say things for us to be worried. I get so worried, when we take corruption perception index seriously, which are not backed with evidence but with perception. I was having an engagement with someone yesterday and from the conversation, it looks as though they think when you’re an assemblymember affiliated to the NPP party then you have nothing to worry about in this country. The perceptions we have is exactly what we are rated with”.
Adding that “there are some people who are deliberately working just to tarnish this government’s image and make it unpopular, for Ghanaians to lose hope in the government. If you study what they say and do, then you ask yourself what exactly these people want from the government.
“There’s someone outside the country who said he’s a professor and when the government of Ghana says or does anything, then he also says otherwise. Meanwhile, he’s not in this country with us. Let’s ask ourselves, right from the days of Kwame Nkrumah, if the whites have ever had any good thought about us. Left to them alone, we should be importing water from them. So, they just don’t want us to take decisions by ourselves and must always be dictated by them”.
He urged that Ghanaians should trust themselves so that they wouldn’t allow foreigners to say things that will influence them.