'Come Clean Mr. President'

 A Deputy Director of Communications for the opposition New Patriotic Party, Mr. Sammy Awuku, has called on President John Dramani Mahama to come clean on the myriad of allegations of corruption hanging around his neck.

Speaking at a mini rally held at the Ablekuma North Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, the NPP firebrand challenged the President to put to rest suggestions that his conduct in the acquisition of five Aircrafts, including an Embraer 190 and hanger for the Ghana Armed Forces, was so suspicious that the late President John Evans Atta Mills constituted a Presidential Committee to investigate the current President.

'I find it rather interesting that whiles President Mahama is always quick to respond to policy prescriptions of Nana Akufo Addo on any platform that he mounts, President Mahama has decided to keep mute on allegations leveled against him by Mr. Martin Amidu,' Awuku stated.

'President Mahama hops from one platform to the other, stating how unrealistic Nana Addo's free SHS and affordable housing schemes are, yet isn't it strange that he blatantly refuses to touch on the issue of corruption? ' Ghanaians are worried about the sinking image of the Presidency and demands answers to these questions'.

Readers  would recall that in his last article copied to the press on October 8, 2012, Mr. Martin Amidu stated without equivocation, that late President Mills constituted a committee to investigate the then Vice President, on the prices the state had to pay for the aircrafts for the Ghana Armed Forces.

In the words of Mr. Amidu, 'it would be recalled that in July 2011, there was a hue and cry about the prices for the acquisition of five (5) aircrafts for the Ghana Armed Forces. Even though on 26th July, 2011, the late Prof. Mills attempted to defend the purchase of the five aircrafts, he became convinced of the necessity to set up a committee to investigate those purchases'.

According to Mr. Awuku, these allegations were so grave that any Head of State interested in the sanctity of the Presidency would not turn a blind eye on it, except if indeed the allegations were true.

Speaking to a very charged audience, the deputy communications director seized the opportunity to call on the party followers to close their ranks and desist from the tendency of voting 'skirt and blouse', stressing that the future government of Nana Akufo Addo will require competent and experienced hands like Hon. Joe Appiah in championing his vision.