12 things Naana Jane said won’t be seen under Mahama’s government

The running mate for the NDC, Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has outlined some scandals that have happened under the Akufo-Addo government since 2017 that will not be recorded under the next John Mahama government.

Addressing Ghanaians at an event to unveil her as the vice-presidential candidate for the biggest opposition party, Prof. Opoku-Agyemang, who said the country needs to be rescued by the NDC, listed some twelve (12) happenings under the NPP government that do not represent good governance.

“Let us face the facts: The promotion of ethnocentric elitism masquerading as intellectualism; nepotism cloaked as know-how; weakness strutting as courage; and crony capitalism masked as development in freedom; shameless hypocrisy acting as objectivity…,” she said while criticizing the current government under Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his Vice Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.

To Prof. Opoku-Agyemang, the aforementioned traits of the NPP “never served a country determined to make progress at any level.”

“Rather, the most significant achievement of these things has been a country in near insolvency, its natural resources such as water and land and environment in rebellion, a people harassed and intimidated into numbness and as some say cynically, bribed into silence.”

Listing the things that justify the return of John Mahama, she said she envisages “a report of the administration of John Dramani Mahama on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress which justifies his return.”

Below are what she said the report will not have.

“The report would have no reference to the following:

1. A multi-million-dollar dugout; I don’t know about you but the image I get. looking at the trench is that of a hole in utter shock that anyone could believe it was intended as a thanksgiving gift to the Almighty, Invisible, God Only Wise

2. A free SHS at war, with the battle fought on the grounds of food, shelter, space, calendar, teaching and learning materials, or those who spend a couple of weeks at school and several months idling at home; past questions instead of textbooks and science equipment, or an atmosphere that suppresses learning.

3. Free water and electricity to a few that turns out to be the most expensive for all.

4 COVID-19 money is shared for partisan political campaign purposes, while people die from a lack of support at our health facilities.

5. An Agyapa-like manifesto under the NDC led by JDM

6. A president clearing malfeasance and writing love letters to prejudge a bad situation.

7. Unemployment jumping from 8 to 14% (check out the actual numbers), a GDP that has gone AWOL, or a cedi that refuses to be tamed.

8. Weak efforts to hide the truth of dumsor.

The report would not include:

9. Scandals surrounding the PDS; Australian Visas; Kelni GVG; Bost Contaminated Fuel; excavators and ‘aboboyaa’ tricycles that can fly swifter than guinea fowls (nkonfem); or the loss of some 60.8 billion cedis at a central bank, or

10. Unfulfilled promises of one village one dam; one million dollars per constituency per year; 350 secondary schools from scratch and too, too many betrayals.

11. A tracker in hiding, too embarrassed to expose its plagiarized content

12. In truth, such an investigation would not reveal over 100 scandals, and counting, during the tenure of the NDC under JDM.