The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has come under fire from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) over comments he made regarding industrialization while campaigning in Kumawu over the weekend.
During a campaign stop in the Ashanti Region's Kumawu constituency, Dr. Bawumia asserted, "NDC built only two factories, but the NPP has built over 150 factories."
The NDC responded, saying, "The Vice President's claim is a flagrant lie. For the record, the previous NDC/Mahama administration developed strategically important State-owned factories that supported expansion in significant areas of the Ghanaian economy.
"We must hasten to point out to the Vice President that if his so-called 150 factories claim relates to the government's poorly implemented 1D1F program, then he needs to educate himself and cure his own ignorance about the nature of their so-called 1D1F initiative," Sammy Gyamfi said in a statement signed by the party's communications officer. This is due to the fact that none of the alleged 1D1F industries were really constructed by the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia administration.
During the same campaign, Dr. Bawumia received criticism for saying that "Guinea fowls flew to Burkina Faso under John Mahama".
The NDC said that the statement was nothing more than a "deliberately manufactured lie" that Bawumia and his ilk kept repeating. The Vice President's continued involvement in this shoddy spin shows how low he has sunk.
The statement continued, "In fact, it is noteworthy to remind Bawumia and his likes that Manasseh Azuri Awuni, the journalist who investigated the joint venture project between the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) and the Asongtaba Cottage Industry for the production and marketing of guinea fowl, is on public record to have refuted this claim.
