Life in Ghana is Hellish

Former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, is yet to get over the ominous defeat at the hands of President John Evans Atta Mills, and as together with her husband swore after the NDC presidential nomination, is continuing with her harsh criticism of the current administration.

This time around, the platform of criticism has changed dramatically. She has taken her swipe at the president beyond the borders of Ghana to the international arena by telling a group of visiting women’s group in Ghana that it’s hell living in Ghana under the Mills administration.

Although the former first lady was short of mentioning the name of the president and the NDC administration in her presentation; by inference, Nana Konadu was only telling what she considers as the harsh truth about an administration which is administered by her own party- the NDC.

She told the group of women that it was extremely expensive to live in Ghana because of the harsh economic conditions currently pertaining in the country and the fact that government and the country’s leadership is not doing anything to shore up production.

“If we don’t increase production, then I am afraid the current harsh economic conditions in the country cannot improve”, Nana Konadu disclosed in her presentation to the women’s group.

Her husband, former President Jerry John Rawlings, complained of the manner money and pure terror was unleashed on his wife and her group of supporters during the NDC presidential election, an act he felt defeats the principle of probity and accountability, which has been the forte of the NDC since its inception.

He even warned of an imminent disaster for the NDC in the days leading to the NDC congress when he warned that the inevitable will happen to the NDC if his wife should lose the NDC congress on foul grounds.

The former president is said to have taken leave to enable him write a book to chronicle the thievery that took place at the NDC congress which culminated in the loss of the NDC presidential nomination by his wife.

Many have read meanings into the loaded warning from the former president. While some believe the former first family would secede from the NDC to form their own party, Nana Konadu’s pronouncements clearly show that they are bent on staying with the NDC and continue with their criticism just like they did before and during the NDC congress.

Nana Konadu would not be flattered by the cosmetic economic indices of reduction in inflation being bandied around by government and its assigns, saying the “economic indices that inflation has reduced is not a true reflection on the living standards of ordinary Ghanaians”.

As a remedy, Nana Konadu recommended that Ghana and for that matter the Mills administration ought to increase production and also move to put many people, especially the youth, into employment.

These were the same issues that the former first lady hammered home during her campaign in the run-up to the NDC presidential nomination in Sunyani this month.