The Office of former President John Mahama has accused President Nana Akufo-Addo of sponsoring some media houses to orchestrate lies and spread falsehood against Mr Mahama.
Citing a publication on Thursday, 25 January by the Daily Guide and Statesman newspapers about an alleged yet-to-be-released anti-Free SHS publication by the Africa Watch magazine allegedly sponsored by Mr Mahama, the Office of the former president advised President Akufo-Addo to “heed” the advice offered by Mr Mahama vis-à-vis the Free SHS programme “instead of orchestrating attacks based on lies and pedestrian propaganda”.
Below is the full statement
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
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This woman is very intelligent but she's allowing personal hatred and bitterness for His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo eat her up. You have no respect for him (the President) but whether you like it or not, he will rule this country until hos term is fully over. He has no time or luxury to discuss Mahama or his cronies. He has a whole nation to feed, provide security and improve their lives. Get thee behind the President.
Ndc should as a matter of urgency change the people around the president and the ndc communication front liners. They are making the ndc very unattractive. The same rude , disrespectful and arrogant ways that pushed them into opposition is being revisited. As for this girl the least said about her the better
F00li$h woman. Stud1d 1diot of an educated person. All these wo0rthl£ss 1mbeciles call themselves edcuated. What a d1sgrace to Northerners? Do you think that HE Nana Addo has got nothing better to do? Every scandal and 1ncompetency has got Mahama's name linked to it. JDM should get competent PR experts to work for him to salvage his ever increasing tarnished image before its too late. The likes of Bawa Mogtari will only sing discorded praises to him for 1ll deserved money. Allah richly punish sycophants like Bawa Mogtari
This NDC girl is annoying.... she needs some good f.u....c.k.i.n.g to help her think.... Akuffo Addo is trying to sort the mess you and your incompetent John Ford Mahama left behind.
SOMEONE PLEASE FIND WORK FOR THIS LADY TO DO
Madam go and help your village people, and stop the noise that you are making.