Former President John Mahama has rubbished claims that he has promised senior high school students monthly allowances if he returns to power.
According to a statement from his camp, "the report is fake and a figment of the writer’s imagination".
“It is also not true that Mr Mahama has visited the Volta Region to speak to students there. Please disregard the bizarre, outrageous and ridiculous publication and treat it with the contempt that it deserves. It is fake news. For the records, Mr Mahama is on a five-day campaign tour in the Western Region,” the statement added.
Below is the full statement:
RE: SHS STUDENTS WILL TAKE GARI AND ALAWA EVERY MONTH IN MY SECOND COMING — MAHAMA
Our attention has been drawn to an online publication on the subject matter above. The report claims that former President John Dramani Mahama spoke to students in the Volta Region on the said subject matter.
For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to state that the report is fake and a figment of the writer’s imagination. It is a matter of public knowledge that Mr Mahama has yet to visit the Volta Region to campaign there ahead of the flagbearership election of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
It is also not true that Mr Mahama has visited the Volta Region to speak to students there. Please disregard the bizarre, outrageous and ridiculous publication and treat it with the contempt that it deserves. It is fake news. For the records, Mr Mahama is on a five-day campaign tour in the Western Region.
Whilst on this campaign, he has been meeting with delegates and supporters of the NDC. He has been speaking mainly on issues affecting cocoa farmers, small-scale miners, jobs, the high cost of living in the country, his development agenda for the NDC, plans to better implement Free SHS as well as his determination and commitment to eliminate the chaotic double track system in secondary education.
JAMES AGYENIM-BOATENG
SPOKESPERSON
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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Mahama, we know you very well. You can say anything to get power. We are not surprised at all. Now, your campaign message is 'Free SHS, Double-Track' as dangerous educational systems ever developed in this country. Even, you could not implement assistance to day students and building of 200 community schools during your time. If you had managed a little bit, the challenges would have been ironed out by now for the policy to run properly. You only talk around somebody's policy. You never bring any alternative but expect to 'review' what you do not understand.
John Mahama this comment of your lately depicts that you are very desperate for power. Only two years in opposition and you are always complaining of this or that. Oh then prepare. Since we have seen that you are allegic to opposition then we will ensure that you stay in opposition together with NDC for a long time. Your trade mark of incompetency is showing in everything that you say and do. Incompetent John Mahama. Keep on talking.
Hahahaaa!! promise of monthly gari stipends to be distributed by Anita Desooso. He promises to make the Free SHS better. Mr. ford Kanazoe Mahama, please don't for get that your party said they will make NHIS better in 2009 when you were Vice Pee. What became of it? Tantaaantai!! So should we tkae you serious if you promise Free SHS better? The answer is a big No!! Like the NHIS you and your party will make the FSHS basaaa!! I promise you that. You see, once you are not the one who muted the idea, you cannot do it any better than the one who thought through it and made it happen. Just forget it, the presidency is NEVER going to be yours again.
What can't this desperate man promise? He can even promise every Ghanaian a single moon that will not deliver the seat of President to him again. His time has past like the Ford car that passed by me in Burkina Faso. Did he not say that NPP should stop using their soldiers against illegal miners? Comments of somebody who likes to become the first gentleman of the land once more. God forbid.
And Mahama has promised to create six more regions. Is it the NPP government who created the regions or the people who demanded it and implemented by the Government of the day, so how do you say you will create more regions.Mr ***barred word***,reason up