Kufuor booted out of United States Congress?

When the presidential candidate of the NP, Mr. J.A. Kufuor, embarked on his last fund-raising visit to the United States, he had another plan.

That was to talk to the leading Congressmen of America to stop using the government of Ghana as an example of the success story on economic and social reforms on the African continent in particular and the Third World in general.

The paper says report by its scouts in the United states, indicated that the NPP presidential candidate went to the Capitol Hill to plead for the tightening of financial support for the NDC government.

Mr. Kufuor however, had the shock of his life, when a leading Congressman told him in the face that members of Congress knew much more about what was happening in Ghana than the presidential candidate did and that the Congress would support every effort Ghana needed in her bid to sustain its current economic reform.

According to the paper, to Mr. Kufuor?s surprise, he was told right in the face that if he had come to Congress to solicit for support against aid for the Ghana Government, then "he had gone to the wrong place".