The Policy Adviser of the Peoples National Convention, (PNC) has described President John Mahama�s breakfast meeting which sought to outline his policies for the rest of the year as �empty�.
Addressing a breakfast meeting in Accra on Tuesday, President Dramani Mahama outlined his vision for the country for the next four months. His address has since drawn criticisms from a cross section of the Ghanaian public.
Analyzing the President�s address in an interview with Citi News, Atik Mohammed said the President�s statement was uninspiring.
�For me the expectation generated in Ghanaians was that he was going to give us a presentation that will be reassuring, that will be policy focused but unfortunately yesterday listening to the President I felt so rather discouraged and my hopelessness had gone high.�
He maintained, �what he delivered in all conscience cannot amount to a policy statement because a policy statement simply stated is a set of goals you have and a clear strategies you have to achieving those goals; but for the most parts in his presentation he was lamenting about the inability of government to perform certain things and admitting the weakness of government in doing certain things and the only thing which he said that comes to strategy is I have directed this to do this and some of them he admitted were things that were ongoing so there was nothing new and there was nothing inspiring.�
According to Atik Mohammed, President Mahama sounded hypocritical on his standpoint regarding free education.
�When it came to the issue of education, the President realizing that the concept of free education is something Ghanaians are looking for attempted to associate himself with it and I find that a bit hypocritical; on one hand you oppose the idea of free education and on the other you think is a laudable idea; again he talked about the payment of outstanding debts to teachers, as the head of the economic management team you knew that there were outstanding debts and you waited for this long before you are recommending that they be paid I find that also problematic.�
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