Deputy New Patriotic Party (NPP) General Secretary, Nana Obiri Boahen, says former President John Dramani Mahama appears not to be abreast with current news in the country.
Lawyer Obiri Boahene, who described the ex-president's challenge to President Nana Addo to ‘come for a rematch in 2020’ as "laughable", said his (Mahama's) recent call on President Nana Addo to arrest the owner of the now-defunct DKM Microfinance Limited and pay its aggrieved customers is “unfortunate” and smacks of someone who is "ignorant".
Former President John Mahama, over the weekend, urged the Akufo-Addo government to fulfill its campaign promise by arresting the owner of DKM Microfinance and pay all its customers since that message aided their victory in 2016.
According to Mr. Mahama, the NPP, in the run-up to the 2016 elections, accused him and his wife of being the owners of the collapsed microfinance firm and promised to retrieve for the clients, all their locked-up investments.
With the NPP now being in power, Mr. Mahama said the Akufo-Addo government should have no difficulty fulfilling that promise to the customers of the defunct DKM.
The government, he said, must ensure the owner of the company is arrested and all customers settled appropriately.
“When we were in office, the NPP lied that DKM belonged to me and my wife. Today, you are in power, you, who DKM belongs to, you promised that you will collect the people’s money for them when you come into power; please collect their DKM money and give it back to them,” he said while speaking at Wamfie in the Dormaa East Constituency of the Brong Ahafo Region on Saturday.
Responding to Mr Mahama, NPP’s Obiri Boahene opined that the former president appears quite ignorant about what is happening on the ground and seems to have also lost touch with reality.
“We have appointed a liquidator to investigate the case to resolve it amicably. The liquidator is working and he [Mahama] knows. So how do you blame the president and the NPP?....infact, government under the leadership of President Nana Akufo-Addo, has fulfilled its promise to victims of the Ponzi Scheme....98 per cent of deposits ranging between GH¢10 and GH¢10,000 have been cleared. Beyond that, between GH¢10,000 and GH¢50,000, about 90 per cent of funds of depositors of DKM have also been cleared...He (Mahama) is exhibiting his ignorance, someone should tell him,” he told Mac-Jerry Osei Agyeman.
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Under whose watch did DKM collapse? Under Akuffo Addo 7 big banks have collapsed but non of their customers have lost a pesewa. So how come Mahama couldn't do same for DKM customers and is now asking Akuffo Addo to pay DKM customers. Oh! Mahama, even in opposition you are incompetent. Please learn from Akuffo Addo, don't let the business collapse before looking for money; deal with it to save customers.
MAHAMA KNOWS THEY HAVE BEEN PAID BUT BECAUSE HE DOESNT HAVE A CAMPAIGN MESSAGE HE IS USING EVERYTHING THAT HE HEARS FROM HIS LYING SUPPORTERS(FOR NOKO FIO) AS A CAMPAIGN MESSAGE. CLEARLY SHOWING THE POVERTY OF HIS MIND.
Just pay the money and that of other micro finance institutions. As for Mahama, the incompetent one, the least said about him the better. He superintended all these mess may God himself forgive him and his incompetent NDC party
if the customers have been paid like they wouldn't complain and appointing a liquidator or whatever,wasn't it the same thing the NDC were doing and you were lambasting them? Don't take us for a ride for we aren't ***barred word*** like u guys think. Just pay us our money u promised thats all.
Mr. Mahama is a pathetic soul, very ***barred word*** corrupt fellow. I wonder if he doesn't read. Dr. Bawumia rightly said the NDCs don't read. Most of DKM victims have received their money by the effort of this gov't, if incompetent "Mr ***barred word***" is not aware.