Mahama must return to power - Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang
The 2020 Running Mate of the Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, has said that the numerous corruption scandals that have punctuated the administration of the current government only enrich reasons for Ghanaians to return former president John Mahama to office.
In an interview she granted the media, the woman, who many expect to be repeated as Mr. Mahama’s Running Mate again in 2024, said this imperativeness is because people’s desire to see that mis-managers of the public purse are brought to justice, only increases with every new scandal.
“I am of no doubt that ex-president Mahama is returning and this is so because you the voters want to see people who have mismanaged the public purse brought to account,” she said.
Speaking to reporters in Accra, she added that now that the people who had viciously accused president Mahama of incompetence and corruption are in power, Ghanaians have come to realize who really is truly incompetent and corrupt.
“We have all seen the difference and now not a single Ghanaian is in illusion as to which is better between the government that President John Mahama provided and what we are currently saddled with,” she said.
The take from the woman who rarely speaks is coming in the wake of the scandal involving Akufo-Addo’s former Minister for Environment, Cecila Abena Dapaah, who has been discovered to have stashed millions of dollars in her bedroom.
It also comes as revelation about the Bank of Ghana making Ghc60.8billion loss in 2022 due to questionable financing of the Akufo-Addo government in spite of the fact that it is far above public finance administration cap at 5%.
Meanwhile, throughout the seven years that the current government has been in office, there has been one corruption scandal after another, starting with the US$2.25billion domestic bond sale to Franklin Templeton in 2017.
There have also been the Agyapa scandal, the alleged COVID 19 cash loot and share by party officials and the self-dealing scandal of a former boss of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA), Anane Boateng Agyei, who used his position to award himself contracts.
According to Prof. Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang, ex- president John Mahama’s next government will investigate and bring perpetrators of all of these scandals to book when he assumes office in January 2025.
“I know you can trust John Mahama because he has done it before – this is the man who prosecuted his own party man, including Abuga Pele, over alleged corruption and fired a deputy Minister for merely dreaming out aloud that she wants to amass US$1million.
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