Former President John Mahama has described the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) as a government that is "intolerant to criticisms" and only implements "adhoc solutions" to challenges confronting the country.
Addressing supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at the Ramsey Park at Bolgatanga on Saturday after the ninth edition of the Unity Walk, the former President wondered why anytime the NPP government was criticised about its approach to addressing certain issues in the country they get so "worked up".
Galamsey
Making references to the galamsey issue, Mr Mahama expressed regret that some personalities in the current government allegedly used all kinds of unprintable words on him [Mahama] when he tried to offer some suggestions as to how best the NPP could go about the galamsey issue without creating unnecessary hardship for the youth engaged in the business.
He reiterated that the NPP government should have been working hard at providing alternative means of livelihood for the affected people who were mainly the youth.
"The simple point I made was that we as the NDC have tried that approach of using soldiers to stop the illegal mining issue but it did not work and so we realized that the best way to stop them from illegal mining was to be working on providing them with alternatives" Mr Mahama pointed out.
According to him, if there is any President who has been heavily criticised then it is him [Mahama] but "as a good leader you must be calm and be focused in the face of criticisms."
Failed promises
The former President also took a swipe at the NPP government for "using statutory funds" meant for the National Health Insurance Scheme and the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFUND) to finance some of its flagship programmes to the detriment of the NHIS and the GETFUND.
Mr Mahama explained that because of those bad decisions by the NPP, the NHIS is suffering as the current government is not able to pay claims under that intervention while funds for delivering projects under the GETFUND has also reduced and stalled GETFUND projects.
He further observed that the NPP government was still struggling to fulfill its promises like the ‘one million dollar-one constituency’, ‘one-village-one-dam’, ‘one-district-one-factory’ and other policies.
Mr Mahama noted that all the programmes the NPP has spelt out do not have policy guidelines which was a recipe for the unsustainability of the programmes.
"It is as if the NPP is running a government as you go because for every programme that they roll out there is no policy nor guidelines; at least take it easy and fulfill your promises sustainably," he stressed.
The former President also stated that if the current government would not continue the various projects started under the Mahama regime, the NPP should at least for the sake of the people of the Upper East Region consider completing the Bolgatanga-Bawku road project.
He said he was highly elated about the fortitude, enthusiasm and resilience displayed by the supporters of the party in the region and expressed the hope that in 2020, such attitude would be translated into votes to bring the NDC back to power.
Unity walk
The walk attracted hundreds of supporters of the NDC. In attendance were former ministers of state, former and current parliamentarians, former DCEs.
Notable among them were Mark Woyongo, Albert Abongo, Professor Avea Nsoh, James Tiigah, Cletus Avoka, Daniel Syme, Isaac Adongo and Dr Dominic Ayine.
Source: Graphic.com
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Does the NDC have ANY policy, let alone guidelines? I can't LAUGH!
OUR OLD MAN AND HIS CLEVE.R THIEEEVES ARE JUST SHARING THE LITTLE MONEY WE HAVE. THEY EVEN WANT TO TAX KAYAYEI... COMEBACK 2020!!!!! WE ARE ALREADY FED UP WITH THE NPP.
Mahama don't have the quality to lead anything. You were in power for so long and all you could achieve is to watch your greedy and ***barred word*** mimisters claim double salaries. Give us a break.
NDC is slowly making themselves irrelevant to the politics of Ghana with speeches like this. Was Mahama not in Power for 8years? What did he do in those 8 years? Was he not the one who brought the ***barred word*** Syndrome? My advice to the NDC is that , they need someone else to be giving these speeches and not the most incompetent leader the nation has ever had who go got rejected massively by the masses. The man who reduced the presidency to posing for pictures at the CNN symbol in the USA - #school boy on holiday
MAHAMA IS NOT EVEN WORTHY OF RESPONSE. THE MAN HAS LOST IT!!! HE DOESNT REALISE THAT HE IS NOT IN POWER BECAUSE BECAUSE HE WAS MASSIVELY REJECTED BY GHANAIANS IN 2016, DESPITE ALL HE DID AND SAID!!! YO WILL BE REJECTED AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!!! CONCENTRATE ON YOUR DIVIDED PARTY AND LEAVE PRESIDENT AKUFFO-ADDO AND HIS GOVERNMENT ALONE. WE VOTED HIM INTO POWER AND WE SHALL BE THE JUDGE OF HIS PERFORMANCE; BUT NOT NOW, BUT AT THE END OF HIS MANDATE!!! YOU ARE GIVING THE IMPRESSION THTA AN A*SE-HOLE, LIKE YOU HAVE MORE WISDOM THAN EVERYBODY IN GHANA!!! HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN YOUR ARROGANCE WHEN YOU CHARGED DOWN ON ANYONE WHO CRITICIZED YOU!!! YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A HYPOCRITE AND A CHEAP, DESPERATE, PRETENTIOUS AND PRESUMPTIOUS NINKOMMPOOOP!!!! STAY IN YOUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT IN BOLGATANGA; AND LEAVE US IN PEACE!!! QUUAAAASHIA OPEEEEPENI!!!
you can walk from Bawku to Accra who cares?
Why is Mahama ridiculing himself like this? Is it the proverbial "devil making him mad"?
TRAMOL IS AT WORK IN MAHAMA'S HEAD
Come and save Ghana Mahama, the old man and his family government are sucking Ghana dry. Since the clueless old man took over not even a single school has been built. All he does is sharing political posts to his ex-girlfriends and daughters and Akyem family..
This is what happens when you take tramadol before giving a speech all you say doesn't make $en$e