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Former President John Dramani Mahama has refuted claims that he was trying to dent the image of the country when he showed the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election videos to the diplomatic corps.
Mr Mahama has been slammed for some of the issues he raised when he met with members of the diplomatic corps.
At the meeting, he showed them videos and pictures of the violence which occurred during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election on January 31, 2019.
Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo reacting to this, described him as 'unpatriotic' and accused him of painting Ghana 'black'.
“To say the least, this is unpatriotic and shameful. It is because if he gathered Ghanaians, call it the academia or Ghanaian professionals or Ghanaian businessmen and he talked about matters of concern to him, I’ll have no problem. He’s a former Head of State and therefore a very important opinion leader, but to gather foreigners and try to paint Ghana black is just not acceptable,” the Senior Minister said.
The Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah at a press briefing said: "the Government of Ghana will this week put the diplomatic committee in Ghana on formal notice that former President John Dramani Mahama peddled several falsehoods and sought to undermine the authority of the state."
However, reacting to this in an interaction on Radio Gold, Friday, the former President said: "when I showed the videos to the international community, [they say] I’m painting Ghana black. Ayawaso West Wuogon is black paint. There is nothing pink or yellow or green or white about it . . . . You cannot colour it in any other colour . . . I didn’t manufacture them . . . they are all over social media. I was getting calls from Nigeria and other places . . . when you see some of those videos it looks like Afghanistan, it doesn’t look like Ghana. It looks like some war zone. You see somebody with an axe hitting somebody on the back."
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NIGERIANS DON'T HAVE TIME TO CALL YOUR ***barred word*** SELF. FOR WHAT? DO YOU HAVE ANY INTEGRITY LEFT AT ALL. A BLOODY LIAR WHEN NIGERIANS ARE BUSY PREPARING FOR THEIR ELECTION YOU SAID YOU WERE GETTING CALLS FROM WHO? LIAR! YOU'RE THE WORST PREZ IN AFRICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE...ROTTEN MORAL...WHERE IS THE CHIREPONY , TALENSI , ATIWA, AGBOGBLOSHIE, COLLINS DAUDA'S BUCHERING BROTHERS VIDEO? WAS THERE NO NATIONAL SECURITY DURING YOUR TIME IN POSSEESION OF IT? WHAT DID YOU DO WITH IT?....WHAT A SHAMEFUL FORMER PREZ THIS BEAUTIFUL NATION ONCE PLAGUED HERSELF WITH..A MISFORTUNE GHANA WENT THROUGH INDEED.
Is the Kumasi NDC HQ incident a blue colour? Wasn't it bloody" Were Cheriponi and Talensi political criminal violence white? What did you do under your watch to arrest the situation? At least, Nana has made an attempt, join him or shut your *f*u*c*k* mouth off and go to hell. Enough of your visionless and hypocrisy is enough.
You are even LUCKY that we have a caring President who has asked for it to be investigated and has gone ahead to set a commission for it. What did you do say as the then President when people were shot at at Chreponi, Talensi and Akwatia? NOTHING! You did not care! Your minister said 'violence begat violence'!
YOU ALSO HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO SHOW THE VIDEO OF KUMASI NDC OFFICE KILLING TO THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD. HYPOCRITE ON THE HIGHEST LEVEL.
AND SO IT IS PATRIOTIC FOR A SITTING PRESIDENT/GOVERNMENT AND ITS SECURITY APPARATUS TO SEND HOOLIGANS HOODED IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL SECURITY TO INVADE THE HOME OF A CITIZEN AND SHOOT POEOPLE? NO DOUBT...
There is a special place in hell for this hypocrate John Ford Mahama guy..... You killed Prof Mills in cold blood. His blood is on your heard. Why did you refused to show videos from Akwatia, Chereponi and Talensi by election violence too which happened under your watch? You are irrelevant now. You have destroyed your NDC party and yourself. You guys will remain in opposition forever. Did you hear about the death of the NDC guy who refered to our crude oil as agyengo?
YES! UNPATRIOTIC EX-PRESIDENT JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA. NOW IT IS BECOMING TOO MUCH, GHANA IS THE ONLY COUNTRY WE HAVE, THAT YOU CAN BECOME PRESIDENT AGAIN IF GOD PERMITS. PLS OBSERVE AND LEARN TO TALK LESS. THAT WILL MAKE YOU A GREAT STATESMAN IN THE CATEGORY OF H.E RAWLINGS & H.E KUFOUR. LONG LIVE GHANA.
Go and show a video of the guy who was killed in Kumasi then.