Ex-President John Dramani Mahama has warned the Akufo-Addo government to desist from "spreading untruths and a general smear campaign" on his personality.
According to him, the government has assigned the media to fabricate stories and "deliberately spreading such concocted falsehood" to help promote the government's smear campaigns about him.
In a statement signed by his Special Aide, Joyce Bawah Mogtari on Thursday, January 25 and copied to Peacefmonline.com, the former President addressed a false publication that he has contracted AfricaWatch magazine to publish damaging reports about the free SHS policy by the current administraton.
"The said false claim, which has been attributed to the Ministry of Education, has been reproduced by some online news portals, in yet another sponsored attempt by Government to use false and malicious publications to bring the name of the former
President into disrepute", the statement read.
But former President John Mahama wants to place on record that neither him nor his office has any "interest in or working relationship with the AfricaWatch Magazine. We have not seen or been offered an advance copy of the said publication to know what they have even written about the government’s Free SHS Policy. The claims by the two government sponsored tabloids and the alleged Ministry of Education statement are nothing but part of the usual set of lies conveniently being told to sway the attention and interest of the Ghanaian people from the dangerous developments of corruption, insecurity, hardships and poor governance by President Nana Akufo-Addo".
"President Mahama holds the enviable record as a Ghanaian leader who has done more to broaden the frontiers of SHS education than many before him. He began with the implementation of the Progressively Free SHS, implemented the Secondary Education Improvement Programme (SEIP), built Community Day Senior High Schools- the largest addition to our school stock since independence, expanded infrastructure in hundreds of existing Senior High Schools among other interventions", portion of the statement read.
Read full statement below:
STATEMENT IN REACTION TO MALICIOUS PUBLICATIONS AGAINST H.E. THE FORMER PRESIDENT
The Office of HE John Dramani Mahama has taken note of a false publication by two Government sponsored tabloids, Daily Guide and Statesman, that the former President of the Republic of Ghana has contracted a magazine, the AfricaWatch to publish what it says are damaging reports about the Free SHS policy.
The said false claim, which has been attributed to the Ministry of Education, has been reproduced by some online news portals, in yet another sponsored attempt by Government to use false and malicious publications to bring the name of the former President into disrepute.
We wish to place on record that:
1. Neither President John Mahama nor his office has, any, interest in or working relationship with the AfricaWatch Magazine.
2. We have not seen or been offered an advance copy of the said publication to know what they have even written about the government’s Free SHS Policy.
3. The claims by the two government sponsored tabloids and the alleged Ministry of Education statement are nothing but part of the usual set of lies conveniently being told to sway the attention and interest of the Ghanaian people from the dangerous developments of corruption, insecurity, hardships and poor governance by President Nana Akufo-Addo.
4. President Mahama holds the enviable record as a Ghanaian leader who has done more to broaden the frontiers of SHS education than many before him. He began with the implementation of the Progressively Free SHS, implemented the Secondary Education Improvement Programme (SEIP), built Community Day Senior High Schools- the largest addition to our school stock since independence, expanded infrastructure in hundreds of existing Senior High Schools among other interventions.
5. Like most Ghanaians, Mr. Mahama is deeply concerned about the horrible conditions under which SHS students are living and studying, out of which deaths have been recorded.
6. The Former President’s suggestion and advice to Government has been a call for a National Stakeholders Dialogue to chart a better and befitting way forward.
7. President Akufo-Addo should heed that call, instead of orchestrating attacks based on lies and pedestrian propaganda.
This Office would also like to point out that it has noted a pattern of spreading ridiculous untruths and a general smear campaign by assigns of government intended to malign the former President to satisfy an obvious political motive.
We condemn this approach and demand an immediate end to it. The media must also know that deliberately spreading such concocted falsehood and helping promote smear campaigns against the former President is worsening the dent and the characterisation of the Ghanaian media as unprofessional and partisan.
We encourage the Ghanaian public to continue to demand from the Akufo-Addo government, an improvement from the poor governance it is serving this country.
SIGNED
Joyce Bawah Mogtari
Special Aide
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Source: Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Eii ! but since when did the Ded-Goat became alive? I thought ded goats are ded and cannot hear rumors ? Boi
From Assembly man to President of Ghana following the foot steps of his father who was the regional minister in the Kwame Nkrumah regime and was booted out by JJ Rawlings and today his son Jon Dramani Mahama the greatest northner thiff should be carefully monitored by Nana Addo and his government ; the man has looted so much money from Ghanaians that he is attemepting to buy his way again by attempting to undermine NPP to come to power again ; the man was paid by the US to accept the GITMO 2 ; he has lutted from Ghanaians to look after his wife and children and bought businesses and flats in Dubai ;he killed Atta Mills to take over as President and today he is buying his way to influence the NDC to select him again through the master kriminal Kofi Adams and Koku to be an unopposed candidate ; he is using his looted funds to crawl back to power but thif will fail because members of the NDC are wide awake and will never accept him as a candidate because there is no way he can beat Nana Addo and Dr Bawumia in the 2020 elections ; don't forget the son of a kleptomaniac has over 1 million vote deficit to clear in the next elections; the Mahama family including Alfred; Ibrahim ; Jon and his the total family tree are a bunch of kriminals inherited from their father
SHAME ON YOU.YOU WILL NEVER COME BACK TO POWER AGAIN.INCOMPETENT MAN.THE MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT AFRICA HAS EVER HAD.YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED.TELL YOUR WIFE TO BRING THE COCOBOD FERTILIZER MONEY.***barred word*** HEAD..
You don’t need any help from anyone else to make you look bad. During your 8-year tenure you’ve amply displayed what a r0tten, economically c0rrupt, m0ralky c0rrupt, sleaze🏐 you are, and we’re hacebt even started talking about your wife and siblings yet!. You and your family have l00ted Ghana and YOU. WILL. PAY. BACK. EVERY. PESEWA. ! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
are we being told that governments contract media to defame others? Is mr mahama confirming this? did his government do that? I think i am getting a clue that NDC actually contracted media outlets like radio gold, the herald, insight, etc., to defame key persons in the npp when mr mahama's government was in power. do they agree? oh , ghana!!!
NPP is killing Ghana. So so CORRUPTION everywhere. Vigilante-sm everywhere. Killings and Insecurity everywhere. FIRE BURN this corrupt Family and Friends govt.
The heat in the FREE SHS kitchen is killing the NPP and some have been taken ill and flown to their colonial masters to be cured. God is watching us all. God bless you, MAHAMA.
Oh gallaway !!! Incompetent president ever!!!
President John Mahama, don't mind these NPP haters. They are hot and looking to blame someone for their incompetence. 2020 is just around the bend. Vote NDC!
In the meantime, Ghanaians are patiently waiting for the next issue of AFRICA WATCH magazine. Please print this issue in large volumes because we will buy for our family and friends and cousins and nephews and colleagues at work and so on. The heat is on.....