The pressure group, OCCUPYGHANA has bared its teeth to the flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress, John Dramani Mahama over a pledge he has made.
The former President in a recent statement said that if given the mantle of leadership once again, the practice whereby appointees get to buy state cars when in or leaving office would be a relic of the past.
He bemoans the act of appointees being sold cars at cheap prices when in office or leaving office.
However, in a press statement copied to the media, OCCUPYGHANA has stated that for them to believe that Mahama would indeed keep to his words if he is ever given the opportunity to lead Ghana, he should bring back the over three hundred cars he sold to his appointees under some bizarre circumstances between December 29, 2016 and January 6, 2017.
According to the group, the 2003 Public Procurement Act, as amended in 2016, stipulated that administrations should comply fully with the law but for some inexplicable reasons, the law was not followed by the administration Mr. Mahama headed.
It is upon this failure on his part as President of the Republic that has precipitated their call for all the 361 cars sold to his appointees to be returned to the state.
"Therefore, we demand proof that the government followed that law in the sale of a massive 361 government vehicles to “political appointees” between 29 December 2016 and 6 January 2017, or a return of all of those vehicles to the government for due process to be complied with and proper value realised for them"
In the view of the group, the law that applied in 2016 is that which applies now. If the law was breached then with no consequences and sanctions, there is no guarantee that it would not be breached again in future.
"That is why these the “never again” assurances provide cold comfort and ring hollow to us" the statement stressed.
The flagbearer of the NDC has been struggling to give Ghanaians a gist of his manifesto as the 2020 elections draw near. He has been making promises and pledges which were in our statute books which he failed to execute when he had the chance. OCCUPYGHANA is, therefore, reminding him of his failed obligations and is pouring cold water on this pledge.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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If ex-president Mahama says he's going to stop the sale of government vehicles to appointees that a good wake up call from him. But he must first explain to Ghanaians how over 350 state vehicles were sold out cheaply to his appointees 10days before he was due to leave office when the law that banned the sale of such vehicles was still in place as early as 2016.
John Mahama is sinking and drowning terribly fast by each pledge or promise or statement he makes by the day. I sincerely believe Asiedu Nketiah and his cohorts have advised him to be making promises because as he said himself, Ghanaians have short memories. Unfortunately this is not working in his favor but radically eroding any credibility Mahama may have left because of the inconsistencies, fallacies, blatant lies he keeps churning out there. You gave the whole bauxite deposits of the state to your own brother few days to your exiting of office, supervised the sales of state-owned vehicles to your friends and cronies, plunged the economy of the nation to near abis through unpresidented corruption, mismanagement and poverty of mind and now want Ghanaians to believe you that you have the gust to do anything better in the future so they should foooolihly commit national suicide to give the reign of governance to you again. The more they push you the more you expose your ineptitude and poverty of knowledge so I will counsel you to rather shut your mouth. May be, by doing so, some Ghanaians (the unlearned of course) may forget your evil deeds by December. God Bless Mother Ghana! God Bless the Great Adaklu Kingdom
The most us*less NPP group formed during Mahama's reign. They see no evil in this akromfour government.
You sell over 360 cars from December 29 to January 6 - in less than 10 days and at a time you KNEW you were exiting office. What was going on in your mind if not this mentality of milking the state "some". Instead thinking what we can do for this country, Ghanaians think of what this country can do for them. And if they don't get it, they take it "by force'. If you listened to Sammy Gyamfi, he talked of 'juicy appointments" the current government has given to it's family and friends. Words are important. Instead looking at appointments as responsibilities, Sammy Gyamfi sees them as "juicy" - presenting opportunities for people to literally drink from their appointments. Do you wonder why they neither sleep nor slumber in their attempt to get power? Service is not in their mind. They're looking out for the "juice" in political appointments. Sad. The NPP is not made of saints, but if we ever want development in this country, we simply have to keep the NDC out of power while we whip the NPP to do more. Because they CAN do more!
You are not interested in telling the government to put the 'onuado' health vans to use, not interested in telling the government to open up the various health facilities doted around the country, not interested in telling the government to stop the intimidation and concentrate on easing the tension in the country, though I am older than Ace Ankomah, he was my hero until this government came to power and started picking and choosing things to comment, his hypocrisy nearly made me lose my faith in Christianity.