President John Mahama, in his inordinate ambition for re-election in the December general election – which is a little over 70 days away – has been spotted sharing some money on his campaign trail.
The most recent is a video footage that has surfaced on social media in which the president is seen standing in his open-top V8 Toyota Landcruiser and doling out cash to people in the street during a campaign tour of the Greater Accra Region.
The video, which has since gone viral and captured on several websites, was obviously shot by an amateur photographer who was reportedly observing proceedings from the balcony of a storey building.
In that video, the presidential convoy is seen moving at a snail pace on the streets of Sabon Zongo at Abossey Okai with President Mahama spotting a white cap on top of a black coloured T-shirt and responding to cheers from admirers.
As the crowd cheered him on, he beckoned someone from the crowd to come and ordered his driver to stop.
He is then seen reaching out for money from the vehicle and giving it out to the person, who meandered his way through the crowd amidst tight security to take the money.
As the vehicle began to move, the president beckoned a few others to come and he reached out for more cash from the car for them.
He repeated the gesture a number of times as the crowd surged forward to grab his hand obviously for some cash.
Since the beginning of this year’s electioneering campaign, the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) has shared a lot of goodies and freebies.
The media have captured the sharing of gas cylinders, roofing sheets, outboard motors, fish pans, pieces of cloth, sewing machines, motorbikes, bicycles, mobile phones, laptops, as well as cash, apparently to entice the electorate to vote for the party.
The party is also on record as sharing V8 vehicles to some chiefs as part of the inducement scheme while the masses wallow in abject poverty.
Sometime last week, another set of pictures surfaced from the NDC’s manifesto launch in Sunyani, the Brong-Ahafo Regional capital, where President Mahama was seen giving money to a certain Zongo chief in public.
The pictures have since gone viral and political pundits have expressed concern about the way in which the president has been doling out cash to people in public.
On the sidelines of the manifesto launch, agents and executives of the NDC were also seen sharing money in the open.
The monies were being shared to people bused from various parts of the country to Sunyani to shore up support for President Mahama and the NDC.
Source: Daily Guide
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Is it a sin to have cash? Whom amongst you doesn't have cash or haven't a single bill in your pocket before? Which law has the president broken for having cash? If others can use cash to go and buy Koko & Kose and distribute to people with the intent of buying their votes, what stops others from using the cash from buying same? Cut to the chase, no libilibi, no labalaba! It is what it is. Let's slug it out in the mud.
You can propagate all the lies about Mahama to win power but do not forget the truth will stare at you anytime you look into the mirror. Note also that worst things were said and done to Kwame Nkrumah whose birthday you celebrated with joy only yesterday.May your lies find you out one day
NPP surrogates and lies This can not be true. This is highly doctored by a very wicked being. Why am I saying so- 1. Is it not curious that no press/media house captured it? 2. Were there no joyfm, peacefm. Adomtv, UTv etc following the president? Where were they looking? Was it a coincidence that all the established media houses with better equipment were not able to capture it. Sick minds at occupyGhana, sick minds at Surrogates and media houses. You are fully of lies and the deception is too much. You have message
Sometimes I get the impression that the majority of Ghanaians are stup1do.They know that their lives are hell .They know that they deserve better than what they are getting.What is seen in the open is just nothing at all compared to what goes on in the dark corridors of power.This man is st3aling like nobody's business and in the process impoverishing all of us .Yet there are Ghanaians following this crook around.I know that somehow Mahama will never come to a good end.
If you give me koko in the morning, and wakye in the evening.....and someone gives me money to buy food.....what is the difference?? The only difference would be that you're a dictator, whiles that someone is just a philanthropist.
Oh my God, how gullible can one be? In this day and age where the media is all over with phones even capturing every move, how on earth will a president be dolling out cash? Please let us grow up please!! I don't a sympathizer of the president much less the NDC but this one paa Pe33, Ah ba!!
NANA ABAKAH THINK OOO THINK!!! THE PRESIDENT IS SHARING MONEY LEFT AND RIGHT AND YOU ARE BLAMING JOURNALISTS. WHAT IS THE HEAD ON YOUR NECK FOR. THINK OOO THINK!!!!
@KING MAXI, how can a news paper like Daily Guide show videos.
NPP HIRED JOURNALIST MOST BE PROFESSIONAL WHO DOESN'T GIVE THINGS IN ELECTION. WHAT I SAW WAS SIGN OF GESTURE NOT SHARING PLEASE GIVE US A BREAK
How can this gesture influence someone's decision to vote? U guys are being childish!!! The real thing is done out of view!!! A couple of guys out of thousands of people??? In any case, when you go to the polling booth, is he there to decide for you??? Can he force you there even if you received cash from him??