The next National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration, according to former president John Dramani Mahama, will investigate alleged corrupt deals and misappropriations under the New Patriotic Party-led administration and prosecute those found responsible.
He claimed that mismanagement and corruption were to blame for the financial hardships facing Ghanaians, and he urged the electorate to support the NDC in order to make things better.
“We are saddled with debt, and we have been downgraded by every rating agency, and inflation has gone off the roof, sending people into abject poverty and misery,” he said.
“It had never been my wish for political opponents to fail, but this NPP government has refused to listen to contrary views, leading to the roll-out of poorly thought-through programmes, which have taken a toll on the economy and the public purse.”
As part of his three-day campaign tour of the Volta Region, the former president made these remarks to hundreds of NDC supporters, ward and branch executives at separate engagements in the Ketu North and South constituencies, respectively, at Dzodze and Aflao.
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He claimed that the government’s poor economic management, which resulted in job losses, high unemployment rates, and poverty, was the result of ignorance and insensitivity on many fronts.
Regardless of who or which government was in power, he stated that his goal for Ghana was for it to develop.
In addition to Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, a former governor of the Bank of Ghana, Mr. Kojo Bonsu, a former mayor of Kumasi, and Mr. Ernest Kwaku Krobea, a Ghanaian living in the UK, former President Mahama is running for the NDC’s flagbearer position.
He urged all NDC supporters, in particular the delegates, to do the right thing by casting their votes for the people who would best be able to carry out their mandates in the party’s presidential and parliamentary primaries in May of this year.
“So that together we can wrest power from the NPP and restore hope and dignity back to our people.” Mr Mahama is expected to tour other constituencies in the region, accompanied by some national, regional and constituency executives. Earlier on Thursday, March 2, he launched his flagbearership campaign at the University of Health and Allied Sciences in Ho, on the theme: Building the Ghana that We Want Together.”
