Workers Are Smarter Than Mahama Thinks - Moshake
Leader of former workers of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) who were retrenched in 2002 without their benefits has responded to numerous fantastic promises that former President John Mahama is making to Ghanaian workers, with sarcasm.
At a well-attended press conference in Tema on May Day, Mr. Stephen Ashitey Adjei, alias Moshake, said Mr. Mahama’s grandiloquent promises only ring true to Ghanaian workers who have no active and functioning memories.
“That promise to legalize the okada business in Ghana is so hypocritical that it can only take somebody like Mr. Mahama himself to make it,” Moshake told journalists at a press conference that he addressed on May Day (May 1).
Explaining, he points out that, “the very man who is promising to make Okada legal is the same man who outlawed it in the first place! The question is why has he changed his position today, is it because he is now in opposition and is desperate to return to power?”
Independent checks for verification confirm Moshake’s accusation that the Okada business was outlawed in 2012, when Mr. Mahama was Vice President and subsequently, president.
It remained outlawed from 2012 to 2016 when Mr. Mahama was President, following the sudden death of former President John Evans Atta Mills in July 2012 and Mahama’s subsequent election victory in the 2012 presidential election.
Moshake maintains that the former President’s promise to legalize okada if he is voted into office again is a desperate resort in attempt to hoodwink Ghanaians into voting for him again, “but if Mr. Mahama has still not yet learnt it, then I am glad to make it clear to him that Ghanaians are smarter than he thinks.”
As leader of the over 4,000 ex GPHA workers whose severance benefits remain unpaid since they were retrenched in 2002, Moshake says he is a living witness to Mr. Mahama’s neglect and disrespect for the toiling Ghanaian worker.
“In pursuit of our severance benefits we petitioned then president Atta Mills in 2012 who issued a fiat for our issue to be sorted out.
Unfortunately, President Mills suddenly died in office after that in July 2012, leaving our issue to John Mahama.
This same man who is pretending to love Ghanaian workers totally ignored us, not even as much as replying a single letter we wrote to him,” Moshake said.
He wondered, “how John Mahama thinks” when he says he cares about Ghanaian workers.
“Or may be, his idea of workers is himself and his appointees who enjoy the spoils of power when he is in office?”Moshake accused the former president of hypocrisy on many other levels.
“Why is he running for President again, for the third time in 2024; are there no other leadership materials in the NDC?”
He pointed out that, “this John Mahama seeking to run for office again was the same John Mahama who, through his family, announced to the whole world after losing the 2016 elections that he will not do active politics again.”
The former GPHA ex-workers leader reminded that Mr. Mahama is also the man who canceled the payment of the allowances of teacher and Nursing trainees when he was President.
“I say Mr. Mahama is a double-tongued man because he who today is promising to scrap ex-gratia has received ex-gratia throughout his political career from his days as MP, to becoming deputy Minister, Minister, Vice President and President,” Moshake said.
Moshake also pooh-poohed Mr. Mahama’s promise to license small scale miners if he is elected into office saying that promise, “is utterly irresponsible in the face of the havoc that illegal and small scale mining have adversely affected the environment.”
“I have always said that there is wisdom in knowing what to say and what not to say, what to do and what not to do”. Moshake said to thunderous applause from journalists.
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