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Press Release
AFAG, November
23, 2012
NDC MUST COME CLEAN ON LAPTOPS
The Alliance for Accountable Governance, just like many
Ghanaians, is worried about the lies and factual inaccuracies
concerning the developmental record of the ruling National
Democratic Congress administration over the period 2009 to
2012.
The latest in the series has been the claim by the Ministry of
Science and Technology that it has distributed 100,000 laptops
to students across the country under the “Better Ghana Agenda
Laptop Programme” and also 60,000 laptops to basic schools
under the “Basic School computerization programme.”
The list as put out by the NDC government claims to have
supplied a number of laptops to the Pentecost University,
Zenith University College and the Sunyani College of
Education.
However, the management of the Pentecost University College
has categorically denied the publication by the NDC government
to the effect that its students (present or past) are
beneficiaries of the Government of Ghana’s “Better Ghana
Laptop” programme.
The Public Relations Officer of the school Mr. Emmanuel Kyei
admitted that the university was shocked after the data
available proved that none of the listed beneficiaries
were/are students of the university since commencement in
2004.
Also a number of students from the Zenith University College
who are said to have received laptops under this project have
been proven to be untrue.
The list also contains the name of one “Magdalene Addy”, a
female, who is currently enrolled as a student of the
Presbyterian Boys Senior High School, Legon.
Shockingly, on the list is the “Sunyani College of Education”
which is also said to have benefitted from the distribution of
the free laptops. This school simply does not exist and it is
an indictment on the NDC and another piece of evidence about
the lies they have told Ghanaians over the last four years of
their administration.
Thus far, the NDC government and the corporate affairs manager
of rLg communications have been able to tell Ghanaians what
the unit cost of these laptops are. Ghanaians demand
accountability from the NDC and they must come clean on this.
Ghanaians would like to know where the laptops that have been
distributed went to and who are the beneficiaries of these
laptops since they said beneficiaries have denied knowledge of
acquiring these laptops for their students.
Every said “unprecedented achievement” of the government since
it assumed the reins of office have been proved to be either
lies of factually inaccurate.
The NDC’s claim of having provided 1,700 schools under trees
has proved to be nothing but lies. The Presbyterian Church of
Ghana has shown beyond all reasonable doubt that their schools
were never under trees, yet still the government listed their
schools as being part of the schools under trees that has been
eliminated. Deputy Minister of Information, Samuel Okudzeto
Ablakwa promised to release a list of all the schools they had
eliminated on a weekly basis. Apart from the initial list of
discredited 600 schools, government has been unable to come
with the remaining 1,100 schools eliminated.
Similarly, the NDC’s claim of having provided 160 million
exercise books to the 4.8 million children at the basic level
has proved to be false by the NDC’s own admission.
At the President’s evening encounter organized by the
Institute of Economic Affairs, John Mahama stated that “We
have also distributed 43 million exercise books.” However,
page 15 of the NDC 2012 manifesto states that “over 40 million
exercise books per year have been distributed to about 4.8
million pupils in Basic Schools nationwide as part of our
commitment to investing in our people.” This claim by the NDC
implies that they had distributed 160 million exercise books
to school children across the country.
Ghanaians deserve better and have had enough of the lies and
propaganda. Ghanaians deserve the truth.
Thank you.
Signed;
Davis Opoku Ansah 0244861593
Callistus Agbaam 0269690405
Ohene Djan 0243372125
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