Senior Political Science Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr Kwame Asah Asante, has stated the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration has managed corruption more effectively than the current government.
He stated that during the 2020 elections the New Patriotic Party (NPP) drummed into the heads of Ghanaian voters that the John Mahama administration was corrupt and yet data comparison between the two governments show the NDC has done better at fighting corruption than the NPP.
According to him, the extrapolation of figures of the Corruption Perception Index by Transparency International from 2013 to 2016 and from 2017 to 2020 indicates the NDC has managed corruption better than the NPP.
Speaking on TV3’s Saturday morning analytical talk show, the Key Points, on the Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy), Dr. Asah Asante averred nobody should think these are just perceptions because it is the World Bank and the World Economic Forum that collected the data.
He argued that one of the factors that influence voter choice is the issue of corruption and the third variable that people consider when they are voting and therefore not surprising that politicians use corruption more effectively during elections.
“What is more on corruption, when we were going for the 2020 election, do you remember the Airbus issue; the NPP drummed it and pushed it closer to the election and then after, it fizzled out.”
“Then I ask myself, is it true that story is indeed the case or is not because I wanted the government to move on and we have not heard anything,” he stated.
Dr. Asante lamented that the introduction of the E-levy has hit a snag because consultation and consensus are conspicuously missing from the process and cautioned that is not the way to go.
According to him, the current problem in Parliament with respect to the E-levy is the lack of appreciation on the part of the NPP government that the 8th Parliament is not the same as the 7th Parliament where it controlled majority seats and could therefore get support for all bills it presented.
The NPP government, he said, is still caught up in that old era and still believes the present Parliament is a rubber-stamp that it could push through its policies without resistance.
“They think things have not changed and it’s unfortunate because if you know and acknowledge we have a hung-Parliament with 137-137, then you need to judge and be tactful.”
“But this is conspicuously missing; why is it so,” he queried?
He noted this is not only being witnessed in power but has culminated into the difficulties on the labour front, within the NPP and other sectors.
This, he said, indicates something is basically wrong, which the government is not considering.
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This Lecturer is an NDC sympathiser...... What do you mean by ''managed corruption better''? Corruption is corruption. NDC people are better at covering their corrupt deals.
Doc, you are missing the point. Fact is corruption is corruption, they are all corrupt, the quantum is irrelevant. If you steal an egg, you are a ***barred word***, if you steal a cow, you are a ***barred word***. We don't have small ***barred word*** and big ***barred word*** in the dictionary. A ***barred word*** is a ***barred word***, so NDC or NPP, they are all ***barred word***, simplicita. Management has nothing to do with daylight political robbery. 'STEALERS'. Why won't every baffon want to enter politics in Ghana, where you don't work at all but win big. The department of national lotteries should add politics as part of their wins. Of late Ghanaian politicians would have observed that the respect people had for them is fast eroding, when you see a Ghanaian bowing before a minister or dce, it's because he wants something from you, deep down his heart he sees you as a ***barred word***. Interesting, you queue for hours to vote for people knowing very well they are coming to rob you. A time is coming where only wife and children of politicians will queue to vote because the rest will see as waste of time. I urge Ghanaian politicians to marry many wives and give birth like pigs for that will be the deciding factor in the near future . Nobody will waste his time on others to come and steal for their children, NO.
This guy does not know what he is talking about. Has this Lecturer read the index well and the definition of perception as used in survey? Lazy analysis and you have no credibility anymore.
Eiiii, wonders they say will never end. Because of V8 and free fuel coupons, most of the so called political science lecturers are now l1ars. All of a sudden, political science lecturers from the University of Ghana have become gurus in economics. This man is frustrated !!!!
WHEN DID NDC BECAME MANAGERS OF THE ECONOMY IF THE GAVE GHANA AND GHANAIANS TO IMF TO MANAGE IT. SIGNED TAKE OR PAY POWER SECTOR AGREEMENTS, DOUBLE SALARY TAKERS, BUS BRANDING LOOTERS, WAYOMY LOOTERS, SOLD OLD 120 RAIL CARS FOR SCRAP WHICH COULD BEEN REPAIRE BY SWAME MAGAZANE FOR $50,000 DOLLARS. BRANDNEW OF THESE RAIL CARS COST 500,000 DOLLARS WHICH NPP CURRENTLY HAS FIXED 10 RAIL CARS BY SWAME MAGAZANE FOR 50,000 DOLLARS SUCH A DISPICABLE ART OF LOOT AND WASTE BY NDC ***barred word*** LOOSERS ECONOMIC MISMANAGEMENT. The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, in 1987 obtained a first class degree in economics from the University of Buckingham, the only independent university with a Royal Charter.