National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo has slammed the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).

Describing the party as a walking contradiction, Mr Ampofo said the NPP is only interested in propagating falsehood.

According to him, the NPP while in opposition promised Ghanaians that they would abolish a number of taxes they described as nuisance taxes if voted into power but years on in government, the NPP is rather increasing taxes.

Commenting on the mid-year budget review presented by the Finance Minister, Ofosu Ampofo, in an interview with Citi News on the sidelines at the commissioning of an Aluminium Factory established by Ebenezer Oklitey Tei Larbi, the MP for Lower Manya Krobo in Kpong, Mr Ofosu Ampofo chastised the NPP for deceiving Ghanaians.

“The NPP say one thing and do the opposite. When they were coming to power, they criticized the NDC saying that when they come to power they will scrap the ESLA levies but they are in and are rather doubling it. They criticized heavily Seth Terkper for saying that he was only collecting taxes and was not looking at the productive sector of the economy, and when they come they will reduce taxes. But now we are all seeing he taxes they have introduced”.

“Recently when Ex-president John Mahama went to say that when he comes back to power in 2021 he will scrap the luxury vehicle tax, the NPP said they are a listening government and have scrapped it. The NPP say they won’t do this and end up doing the exact thing. That’s why I am saying they are a walking contradiction”.