A Beggar With Two Bowls

President John Mahama and Nana Addo

The president Mr Mahama is quoted as saying that Nana Akuffo Addo and the NPP wasted a year of his incumbency with their challenge of the election results. This portrayal of the president’s ring-fenced manner of assessment is at variance with the facts.

There was no delay in handing Mr Mahama the mandate as president. The time-line was was followed to the letter by Dr Afari Gyan in spite of all concerns. How then did a petition which was mounted while Mr Mahama was supposed to be working as the president of the nation, impact on his incumbency? He was not in court and he did not have to give any evidence. Mr Mahama was not handed the presidency after the petition; he was the president.

This fabrication, placing blame on the Nana Akuffo Addo and the NPP is therefore the latest lame attempt to explain the failures and lapses of the Mahama administration.

The world is witnessing a nation beset with levels of skulduggery the likes of which has never been experienced before. The course that the nation is being taken, shows a trajectory of plots and sinister machinations which may destabilise the nation...

...And the NPP is crucially being set up to take the blame.

The NDC government of President Mahama, has procured debts to the tune of $30 billion [thirty billion dollars] which is reported as having disappeared in a black hole. Vast sums comprising of pensions, wages and grants are also stated as having been taken and diverted to unknown whereabouts. These claims and the government’s handling of the economy has led to the sickening levels of corruption, extreme austerity, rampant crime, lawlessness and increasing hardship. The prognosis of a country being progressively destroyed.

The hard fact that all Ghanaians will have to grasp is that; the financial providers from whom President Mahama acquired this $30 billion dollars, will not just walk away and make it a bad debt. Some will ensure and may act to ensure that they maintain a debilitating stranglehold as a result of this indebtedness.

Mahama’s government have therefore placed the nation on a dangerous and precarious slope that provides a pretext to destabilise or cause undue interference in the national affairs of the Republic.

And the NPP is being set-up by trickery and deceit to take the blame.

If the NPP fails the nation in chasing the loot of the $30 billion loan, there is a very real possibility that some elements may create a situation, to ensure that they get the value of the $30 billion, in whatever currency that they deem fit. That may include aiding or facilitating scenarios that ensure that they get their end off the bargain. There are also elements whom in an effort not to be accountable, may also resort to destabilising actions if the NDC loses the forthcoming elections. Historically, nations have paid very high prices, both in human and material cost.

Mahama and his administration have taken a begging bowl to the east and the west and dealt with all sorts of entities in getting to the $30 billion. The nation in amazement and consternation, observes reports of obscene and jaw-dropping sums flow into the accounts of individuals and associates of the government through inflated costs, kick-backs and blatant looting.

These wanton acts of skulduggery are allowed to go on by some lenders as a means of getting into the exploit of the nation. It will only become an issue if their returns are threatened or likely to be threatened.

For placing the country into this level of indebtedness, some influential financial providers may facilitate or secure high profile engagements for the president on the global stage. They may facilitate or secure audiences with world leaders, facilitate or offer fringe and nebulous appointments, and for placing the country into this level of indebtedness, facilitate or bestow awards of no meritorious consequence.

In return they will demand compliance of the sort that erodes the rights of the Republic as a sovereign nation.

Why is the nation still poor and dependent on donations, when it is brimming with resources which should have facilitated a respectable existence for its people.

What use is the recognition of Mahama on the world stage, if the average citizen cannot properly feed himself or their child? If citizens cannot access or afford basic health care, basic utilities or amenities? What use is the recognition of Mahama on the world stage for workers whose salaries are in arrears and those whose pensions have been mismanaged after they have toiled to ensure a dignified existence in old age?

What exactly is the value of any award or recognition that Mahama gets for facilitating or creating such a toxic environment? Becoming prominent for placing the country into this level of indebtedness and hardship is nothing to be proud of or emulate and any such recognition by anyone must be for a reason that is not obvious to the people.

There are no signs of the vast resources that people like former president Jerry Rawlings of the same NDC party of the president, fought to keep for future generations. These have all been squandered, wasted and replaced with a $30 billion loan and still counting.

What a shame.
The problem for most is the fear that in spite of their best efforts, the NDC government of President Mahama will still manage to win the forth-coming election, even if no single voter gives them their vote, enabling them to continue, on this damaging trajectory. With the NDC machinery spewing rhetoric of subversion and unfounded opposition machinations and involvement towards an impending terrorist activity, some are becoming really anxious.

The question is: Why would the NPP which is enjoying rousing support and seen largely to win a fair election decide to plan or support insurgency or terrorism?

The information placed in the public domain by its opponents paints a sinister and a dangerous impend, of which the NPP has no reason to have a hand in. If anyone is planning any adverse activity, the NPP is obviously not involved.

The people must therefore be educated on how to recognise these acts and how the citizens through their civic responsibilities can counter, frustrate or reduce these threats. There should be a real drive to ensure that the looting ends at the next election without fail and thieves and felons are made to account for their actions, also without fail. There must be no latitude for any person, group or party anywhere to execute any criminal activity aimed at destabilising the country to enable them further their nefarious activities on the people.

This nation will not fail.