Claims by the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) that it had returned Ghana to the path of growth is not true, a member of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Yofi Grant has challenged.
The NDC has always insisted that it inherited an economy in disarray and that the NPP was struggling to get the economy stay afloat before they lost power in 2009.
At press conference on Thursday, Minister of Trade, Fiifi Kwetey stated that the NPP government was an incompetent one which mismanaged the economy so badly that it was compelled to sell a precious national asset, Ghana Telecom so as to survive while the NDC had not had to resort to the sale of a national asset in order to survive since 2009.
In an interview on Joy FM's Super Morning Show on Friday, Mr Kwetey affirmed his position saying, "looking at the economy, the previous NDC and the current NDC have completely overshadowed the NPP".
"The NDC had returned Ghana on the path of growth" after the NPP's below par performance which was not even comparable to the previous NDC", he insisted.
But according to Mr Grant, the Fiifi Kwetey's claims cannot be true  because "in the last 5 years, the economy has been trending downward. Every macroeconomic indicator is going down and the NDC says they are improving".
"I don't know where Fiifi Kwetey is getting his figures from. He is babbling [and] just rattling figures [but] there are still people who can't pay bills or afford food" he said, asking that, "is it not under the same NDC?"
He stated that it is because the NDC keeps the real situation of the economy in secrecy that is why NPP, Vice Presidential Candidate Dr Mahamudu Bawumia is seen as an economic prophet today "because he talks, they dispute and then it happens".
"When you are in government speak the truth that's when you get solutions", he advised.
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