With many people beginning to admit that the National Democratic Congress’ criminal allegation against the President is a wicked contrivance, the electorate now have affirmation that in John Dramani Mahama, the NDC’s flagbearer, Ghana had been dealing not only with a political conman and mercenary, but a bum who is incapable of standing on his own legs to achieve any feat.
First, it was an attempt to steal the verdict in 2012 in which, but for the patience and magnanimity of the then leader of the New Patriotic Party, Ghana would have blown up.
Second, it was governance system in which the only clear programme the NDC had in mind was to “create, loot and share” to generate funds to keep the party in power, while it killed businesses through a systematic grabbing of the financial and mineral wealth of the country, including illegal mining and land-grab in Accra.
Before that, another grand plot had been hatched by the former President and his paymasters to con about 240 districts with an agricultural scam that ended up impoverishing a huge part of the Middle Belt, the Volta Region and all the Northern Regions put together.
The result was not only negative growth in agriculture but a looting of over $600 million of state monies and the consequent killing of the crop and livestock industry in Ghana.
Exposed by IMF
No wonder, when Ghana had to account to the international community, it turned out, by the records, that Mahama had dragged Ghana back by scoring only a paltry growth from the eight per cent he inherited from Professor John Evans Atta Mills.
When the sanitation scourge, including open defecation, hit Ghana and the drains got clogged everywhere, leading to floods and fires, all he could do was bring in his brother to attempt a con de-silting exercise in another grand scheme to loot our already depleted resources.
That was apart from selling Merchant Bank, which was a major source of financial support for the informal economy and formal businesses, to the private sector in a controversial manner, after family, friends and cronies had looted the bank to the marrow.
Presidents
Ghana has had quite an array of Presidents and political leaders; and we hail each for one thing or the other, including the all-compassing vision of Dr Kwame Nkruamah; the rural transformation vision of Prof KA Busia; the probity and accountability philosophy of Jerry John Rawlings, who led sub-Saharan Africa in economic reforms and cut a path towards democracy.
Then we remember, too, John Agyekum Kufuor, who took Ghana from a HIPC nation and made money available in streets for anybody wanting to do business and prosper to improve his circumstances. We recall, too, his National Health Insurance Scheme, which the NDC claimed could not be possible.
Disaster Mahama
The fact is that no one in Ghana, today, remembers John Mahama for anything – except being a wastrel and a political failure. Of course, that perception was what compelled him in desperation to attempt stealing elections to give some semblance of credibility. But that poor image was what also sent him to a crashing defeat in the 2016 general elections.
How impotent, inefficient, incompetent and shine-less Mahama is has been reflected, recently, in his attempt again to shamelessly – like the mother who slept on his baby – claim for himself feats that Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has scored.
And, this is simply because he (Mahama) has nothing to put his finger on.
No, wonder, after realising that he had crashed, his only option left was to conjure stories and develop propaganda for half-baked urchin graduates to sell to recover lost ground.
Akufo-Addo’s record
Today, all over Ghana, the record of Nana Akufo-Addo is unmistakable – from significant growth in agriculture, through an improved NHIS and state-engineered job creation programmes to banking reforms – every kid can, at least, cite the Free SHS programme. This is because the initiative does not only affect his very life to the core, but also because he can aspire to be somebody in future, regardless of where he hails from.
This is hope and national pride, away from the doom and gloom associated with the tenure of John Mahama.
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