Communications Director of New Patriotic Party (NPP), Yaw Buaben Asamoa says former President John Dramani Mahama should immediately retract his tribal sentiments about Akyem people in the country.
John Mahama shared an article written by Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central, Isaac Adongo dubbed ''Agyapa Royalties Fraud Is The Last Straw: The Akyem Sakawa Boys and Grandpas Must Go''.
Portions of the article read; ''Agyapa royalties deal is a big fraud on Ghana by Akufo-Addo and the Akyem Mafia. You mortgaged Getfund proceeds in excess of GHS25 billion for the next 10 years to borrow $1.5 billion and yet you could not expand educational infrastructure and build new schools to end double track, you mortgaged bauxite buried on the ground to Sinohydro to borrow $2 billion but has nothing to show after almost 2 years, you mortgaged ESLA proceeds for the next 10 years’ worth in excess of GHS30 billion in 10 years to raise energy sector bonds of about $1.3 billion and yet energy sector debts remain unpaid and you have since accumulated over $ 2 billion additional energy sector debt with power producers threatening to shut their power plants.
"How can 76-year-old Akufo-Addo mortgage revenues of about GHS75 billion of the state for his maladministration to steal without caring about how his children and grandchildren will manage the economy into the future. No wicked man has ever ruled this country and destroyed Ghana’s fiscal and debt framework the way Nana Addo and the empty lying Dr Bawumia have done...They will now sell us to borrow to satisfy their insatiable corrupt habits if they are allowed 1 more year in office."
Mr. Mahama is seen as endorsing and supporting the contents of the article which some critics have found to stoke tribal flames.
Addressing the issue on Peace FM's ''Kokrokoo'', Yaw Buaben Asamoa condemned Mahama's validation of Hon. Isaac Adongo's article.
He found Mr. Mahama's action very unfortunate saying ''it is very distasteful and we don't have to entertain it at all. He was the same person who said we were intimidating Voltarians and didn't want them to register their names during the EC registration exercise. The NDC has developed a habit to cause divisions but we must be very careful...He must retract''.
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