Former President John Dramani Mahama has criticized the New Patriotic Party (NPP), over how the economy is being managed after touting that they had ‘the men’.

According to him, the NPP lacks the credibility to be trusted to turn around the economy. During the 2012 and 2016 electoral campaigns, the then-presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, stated that his team had the human resource to develop Ghana.

However, speaking to delegates during his visit to Kpone Katamanso on Friday, John Dramani Mahama averred that the NDC has come to the conclusion, that this is not the case.

“In 2016, our colleagues, the NPP told a lot of lies about us. They labeled us as incompetent and they came with a lot of big and sweet promises to the people of Ghana. And used that to persuade people that they would be a better government, than we were.
“And so, the people of Ghana tried them by voting for them. They said they should try them, ‘try me and see’. And that was a mistake the people of Ghana made because we have come to realize that after all, we have the men, we have the men, they were station boys, they don’t know anything.”
John Dramani Mahama

According to former President Mahama, the ministers who served during his administration, performed better than the current administration.

Mahama commented on the power purchase agreement, noting that the NDC had been chastised by the NPP for signing too many power purchase agreements. As a result, he questioned why the government is adding to the power purchase agreement, if there are so many.

“Just last week, they signed another power purchase agreements. Why are you signing another one today?”
John Dramani Mahama

He went on to say that the government’s promise of one district, one factory – one village, one dam, was a hoax to sway Ghanaians’ votes. This, he explained, is because the factories are currently not operational. “Recently, I was watching a documentary on Joy news and most of those factories are not even working”, he supplemented.

Mahama on his 3 day tour 3 — Mahama on his 3 day tour

He also described as troubling, the findings of a recent US State Department report on human rights violations in Ghana.

“The US Human Rights Report has come out and it makes it very bad reading. Human rights abuses, corruption, torture, so many things, discrimination, everything…go and read that report.”
John Dramani Mahama

According to him, when he assumes office, his government “will set up a governance Advisory Council. And that governance advisory council would include civil society organizations, religious leaders, chiefs, and ordinary grassroots people. And every year, that council will release a report on the state of human rights corruption and everything in Ghana.”

Mahama Reminds Security Agencies Of Their Loyalty To The State And Not Political Parties

Former President John Dramani Mahama likewise, called on the Ghana Police Service and other security agencies to remain neutral at all times and not to discriminate in the discharge of their duties.

John Dramani Mahama, addressing branch and constituency executives of both Lower West Akyem and Upper West Akyem constituencies at Asamankese, to climax his 3-day tour of the Eastern region, indicated that the loyalty of security agencies is to the state and not political parties.

“Security agencies, your loyalty is to the state and not to a political party. You don’t have to support only one political party, when chaos erupts…You need to be neutral.”
John Dramani Mahama