I have read through the story headlined, “Your unprecedented infrastructure claims untrue stop lying – Akufo-Addo to Mahama.”
Harsh terms! Of course. Yet the sitting President is alternatively not currently being truthful! Certainly, in much less than just one month, on two situations, he has not been truthful to the persons of Ghana. I am referring to Sankore in the newly made Ahafo region and also Wa in the Upper West Area. This is not superior for our democracy and it is also not superior for the President’s believability quotient.
The first untruth
Through his stop by to Sankore about four weeks in the past, the individuals rightfully and legitimately requested the President to correct their highway(s) – from Sankore-Nobeko. In reaction, as a substitute of assuring them with his strategy and the timelines for venture supply in get to tackle this felt need to have of theirs, Nana Akufo-Addo turned his guns on John Dramani Mahama, his predecessor, and blamed him for almost everything.
Unusually, President Akufo-Addo additional lambasted my boss for capturing the Sankore-Nobeko highway in the Greenbook. This is factually incorrect and materially nonexistent. Nowhere in the Greenbook, which is a compilation of “the lots of big strides created in practically all sectors of our nationwide life”, was the Sankore-Nobeko road captured.
Precisely, the deal for the Sankore-Nobeko street was awarded in mid-2016 by the Mahama administration and works commenced in earnest. Sadly, elections have outcomes. Soon after the 2016 elections, the Akufo-Addo government– just as it did to various contracts which experienced been awarded by the prior governing administration in numerous sectors – halted works on the road. This consequence of the 2016 elections, is what has delayed the supply of this important project.
It appears the President has adopted the system of erecting his individual dummies, taking pictures them down to wild applause to assert achievements. Such dummy-ˇpolitics only expose you in the long operate. But in this circumstance, the operate has been as well shorter mainly because the NDC in the area spoke eloquently and immediately to the situation to expose the untruth told.
On top of that, anyone who has go through the Greenbook will admit that in the Foreword, I said that, “President John Dramani Mahama produced a pact with the persons of Ghana in 2012 to deliver on their mandate in a manner that will transform lives and remodel our expensive place, Ghana…In the method, sterling results have been attained although efforts have been created to tackle some of the most intractable countrywide challenges.”
My emphasis is “some.” It is for that reason, completely untenable for President Akufo-ˇ
Addo to posit that by any stretch of one’s imagination the Mahama administration
claimed to have resolved each infrastructure require of Ghana.
This qualified prospects me to the 2nd untruth.
The next untruth
“Before I came in this article, I was told by my major competitor that they have completed all the roads in Ghana and that they are dependable for an unprecedented infrastructural progress, just about everywhere I go, I do not imagine there is any authority establishment that has talked to me and has not raised the concern about the roads in their area as their principal worry.”
The President is greatly described without having any official denial to have uttered these text at the Flagstaff Property when customers of the Higher West Regional Household of Chiefs visited him on Tuesday, May well 7, 2019.
Paradoxically, he somewhat went even more to suggest “John Mahama and other politicians to desist from the observe of making misleading statements, and, in some situations, lying to Ghanaians all in a bid for electricity.”
Mr. President as citizens not spectators we:
- Thank God Ghanaians have not forgotten your assure to give 350 Senior
- Superior Colleges inside 18 months after coming into business
- Thank God Ghanaians are nevertheless waiting for your $1,000, 000 for each constituency each and every calendar year which has accumulated $825 million over the earlier three yrs
- Thank God Ghanaians even now try to remember your unparalleled gasoline cost hikes and weakening of the cedi above the period of time
- Thank God Ghanaians bear in mind your guarantees to trained nurses and
- Thank God electronic footprints continue to allow just one to conveniently evoke your previous promises.
Mr President, the respected chiefs of the Upper West region have set a ask for just before you. So, I urge you to just take the bull by the horn. You are lucky to have been bequeathed a almost done Higher West Regional clinic and a partly labored on Wa airstrip infrastructure so do the do. “Fix it!”
As you the moment informed President Atta Mills of blessed memory. A piece of guidance. Mr President, you are in your penultimate 12 months in office environment and your predecessor who is nonetheless your competitor certainly sent unparalleled infrastructure to Ghanaians.
Hence, if you are however blaming him, then you have to start off composing your handing over notes before than predicted simply because this blame game a yr ahead of 2020 is a recipe for your electoral defeat.
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Dr Edward Omane Boamah is a Health Policy Setting up and Financing pro, a Health-related Practitioner and a politician who served as the Communications Minister and spokesperson of the previous president John Mahama
