Former President John Dramani Mahama has taken a swipe at the governing New Patriotic Party urging the government to focus on transforming the country instead of baselessly crucifying former appointees in the media.
According to him, if the government has evidence of corruption against any of the former appointees, they should use due process and pursue them in court instead of using what he described as “media trial.”
“This trial by newspaper affects the credibility of the government. If you hear that several sums of money have gone missing yet no one has been arrested for prosecution, then you are destroying the confidence of people in the credibility of the government. So the trial by media must stop,” he said.
Ever since the NPP assumed office, the government has accused some former officials of the Mahama administration of causing financial loss to the state.Some government communicators recently said the Tema Oil Refinery could not account for an amount of GHc150 billion from its coffers, an amount which they said went missing under the Mahama government.
The Sanitation Minister, Kofi Adda had also said a GHc99 million plastic waste levy collected by the John Mahama-led administration could not be traced.
But addressing members of the National Democratic Congress in Kumasi during the party’s Unity Walk session today [Saturday], Mahama said such allegations are baseless.
“Instead of focusing on the job to make Ghana a better place, every day they complain that an amount of money has gone missing. If money has been lost, conduct the investigation and arrest the perpetrators. Who has the power?”
“Recently they said GHc150 billion at TOR is missing. How can GHc150 billion be lost? If such amount is missing, arrest those who stole that amount. Another person also said that GHc90 million is missing from the sanitation fund. We set up the sanitation fund and asked local government ministry to submit guidelines before the money will be released, but Local Government [Ministry] could not submit the guidelines, so the money was not given. How can that be missing?”
The NPP government is prosecuting some former appointees notably the former COCOBOD CEO, Dr Stephen Opuni, former board chair of the National Communications Authority (NCA) Eugene Baffoe Bonnie and four others who are believed to have caused the state to lose vast sums of monies.
Four persons, including the former Director General of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Ernest Thompson, are also being investigated by the Economic and Organised Crimes Office’s (EOCO) for allegedly causing financial loss to the state for the role they played in the SSNIT software scandal.
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IT IS ABOUT TIME YOU HOLD THE GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABLE.. THEY'VE PROMISED TO NOT SPARE ANY FORMER APPOINTEE WHO CAUSED FINANCIAL LOSS TO THE STATE. MAHAMA IS RIGHT.
This bribe taker incompetent John Ford Mahama guy must s.h.u.t up.... He is annoying..... We will remove from parliament those dishonest MP who took double salary and ex-gratia and send them to jail.........
Mahama is childish, he has a head of an old man but brains of a kid. I can't imagine Nana Addo in opposition going out spewing such ign*rance, thank GOD this idi*t was kicked out. Somebody who has no respect in his country let alone outside hence he was chased out from Sierra Leone and Kenya for his election malpractices. An international conman being followed by idi*ts and thi*ves what do you expect from him? N*nsense! He forgot he was on the soil of those he insulted when in power and so should talk sense to prove a new leaf but a fo*l can never be changed, no wonder kids who have no responsibility were following him for some nokofiooo! This video couldn't show me any people except the Asawase boys who were taking pictures of their commander in thi*f. Whether John mahama likes it or not he is a thi*f and that tag can never go away until he explain his stewardship for the 8 years from Embraer, XTS Korea, nkomfem fly away to Burkina, sada, suba, gyeeda, double salaries and his own salary increment and back dated pay from 2010 as president when he was not a president in 2011? Okro*fuo like that ,talking sh*t !
THIS MAMAMA NEEDS SOME SENSE, HUA
This is logical reasoning, it easy to destroy than to fix, what your us3l3sss incompetenttt corrupttt government destroyed in eight years of reign , do you expect someone to solve all the problems within one and half years, not even magic wands, Mr Mahama you so are so corruptttt that don’t feel ashamed when your appointees are caught in the same arena, because there’s the saying:BIRDS OF THE SAME....,,
SOMETIMES GHANA POLITICS SWEET KEKE HAHAHA SEE WHAT REJECTED MAHAMA IS SAYING......I DO NOT BLAME HIM
Mahama is confused. When EC Chairperson Charlotte Osei and her deputies were petitioned against by their own junior officers, NDC propaganda elements rushed to radio stations to discuss the matter and even threaten government of mayhem if Aunty Charlotte was removed. The NPP government believes in rule of law and until a person is proven guilty, that person remains innocent and therefore the courts are dealing with them not the radio stations where NDC is trying to deceive Gh. Mahma should use the unity walk to explain how he stole money from government coffers; how his brother acquired all the ill-gotten assets [he will go to jail anyway], SSNIT scandals, Opuni saga and many many more. He must stop shouting wolf when there is no wolf.
ABOOOOOOOOA what you messed up during your 8 years you want someone to use 1 year to resolve it. Aboooooa again.