Former President of the Republic of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, has called the ruling NPP’s recently launched Digital Addressing System ‘fake, 419 and fraudulent.’
According to him, NPP has failed to punish someone for duping the country for a device, freely available on mobile phones.
“How can you launch a Google GPS system that is freely available on our mobile phone and say it is a national addressing system. It is such a pity. Why will you embarrass the president so much? You go and take a whole president to bring him to come and launch a system that is 419,” John Mahama said.
John Dramani Mahama made the speech at Cape Coast London Bridge, where he addressed NDC supporters after their 3rd Unity Walk in Cape Coast in the Central Region after Tamale and Greater Accra.
The former president said he had restrained himself from commenting on governance issues after losing the presidency to the NPP’s Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo because he believed that every new government needed time to settle in office, but “it looks like NPP is whittling away its honeymoon period with the mistakes that it is doing.”
He called on the president to “show that he is serious about corruption” by holding someone accountable for the launch of the $2.5 million digital addressing system which he [Mahama] believes is fraudulent.
“When we talk about accountability, this is where the president should show that he is serious about corruption. Somebody must account for 15 million giving away free of charge. When I was in office, there was a bus branding incident, GH¢3.6m, a minister of state resigned because of GH¢3.6m,” John Mahama said.
He however, accused the president of not being able to “take firm action in anything.”
The former president also called for the removal of Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi-Boateng, for comments unworthy of his position,
“The President seems unable to take firm action in anything. When I talk about the president not putting his foot down, we have a constitution and the constitution is the supreme law of the land,” he said.
…You can only say all jobs should go to NDC people before it goes to NPP people, if you are Allotey Jacobs. The government doesn’t pay you, taxpayers don’t pay you and you haven’t sworn an oath to anybody. But not when you are appointed as a high commissioner and you swear an oath to the constitution of Ghana which says there shall be no discrimination and you shall do justice to all manner of people.
He however, advised NDC faithful to return to their polling stations and a do a fresh registration going to the 2020 election.
Story: From Philemon Buabeng, ATV, Cape Coast, Central Region