FUEL PRICE REDUCTION THAT NEVER WAS

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A candidate hopeful to become a prime Minister, once on his campaign rounds promised to cancel the tax system that his opponent the Primes Minister was operating which he thought was creating more burdens for the people.

        His message went down to the electorate who saw meaning in that promise and gave him the mandate to come to power as prime minister and cancel that tax system to give them the so called freedom promised.
         Then the unfortunate thing happened. He paid a working visit to the offices that run the tax system and the books were open to him to see the figures which the system generates as revenue for the government.
          So shocked and dumb founded, the prime minister could not say a word and when the press asked him whether he was still going to cancel the tax system, he pushed them away without answering yes or no.
          When he was an ordinary man and not in government, he felt the government was over burdening the people with tax systems which were milking the tax payers dry whiles they in government were living luxurious lives.
           Therefore championing the calls of the people for tax freedom and other freedoms convinced the electorate to give him their mandate to effect that change.
        Someone once argued that when the politician mounts electioneering campaign platforms, they get possessed from certain supernatural power that is why many of them make certain promises only to turn out as failed promises.
        Initially, I did not agree with him on that assertion but later on I seemed to be siding with him having looked at instances where certain politicians were spotted shaking visibly on platforms as they reached out to the people.
       The late professor Albert Adu Boahene, contesting the presidential seat on the ticket of the NPP, suffered from this as he was always picked up by the media about the way he expressed his anger by attacking ex-president Rawlings on political campaign platforms.
      The ex-president now Torgbi Awaklasu of Aflao on several occasions made it clear that when he takes the campaign platform, he gets charged. No but he said it last year when he met NDC party members in Kumasi.
       If not then why did he on numerous occasions campaigning for the president in the 2008 general elections made so many “boom” statements? If he was not charged by that supernatural power can he be making those “boom” statements?
       As for president John Evans Atta Mills, I spotted him on several occasions shaking visibly as he tried to highlight the wrongs in NPP government to drum home the need to elect him as the next president.
        On one of the platforms, so charged and the crowd charmed by his incensed nature stated,” Papa Kufuor onee na abedwafo won aye oman nemo dzen dzen” to wit, Kufuor and his government have constricted the economy to create a whole lot of hardship for every one.
         It was so surprising to see the gathering clapping for that allegation. Then he went on to ask them,” amo ara monka nkyere mee, woteme tow petro anaa” to wit how many of you could afford the price of a gallon of petrol? The crowd responded with big shouts of “no,no” that charged him to poor more arsenals.
          Then the tax professor beating his chest made a heavenly promise to the good people of Ghana who are the electorates that when elected as president will reduce prices of petro and all other petroleum products to make it affordable to all.
          “I Atta Mills when elected as the president of Ghana I will reduce fuel prices through subsidy” was the promise he gave on the campaign platform. “Amee Atta Mills mebaa, petro noo metew doo” to wit I will reduce petro prices.
          But it is past three years since he ascended the presidential seat of Ghana which we must ask him how many times as the president reduced fuel prices. Or has his fuel price subsidy worked at all?
          We have had taxi drivers as well as other commercial drivers on countless occasions taking to the streets to demonstrate and you will ask for fuel price reduction of course not.
         One of my former editors once said it is very surprising when one politician mount the campaign platform because of the way they get incensed. President Mills got incensed that was why he made that wild promise that he has failed to fulfill.
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BY: Stephen A.Quaye /www.www.spyghana.com

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