Regional News of Sunday, 4 May 2025

Source: Michael Oberteye, Contributor

Asene Akroso Manso MP condemns President Mahama's 'rambo-style governance'

George Kwame Aboagye is the Member of Parliament for Asene Akroso Manso George Kwame Aboagye is the Member of Parliament for Asene Akroso Manso

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Asene Akroso Manso Constituency in the Eastern Region, who doubles as the Minority Ranking Member on Energy, George Kwame Aboagye, has expressed dissatisfaction with President John Dramani Mahama’s leadership style, describing it as 'rambo-style'.

The lawmaker, popularly referred to as Oluwa, describing the president’s leadership style as undemocratic and needless, emphasised that the rambo-style approach of Richard Jakpa and his team storming into the homes of former government appointees to effect arrests isn't democratic, but rather a bad style of governance which shouldn't be entertained in today’s civilised and democratic world.

The MP made this statement at Akyem Akroso when the New Patriotic Party (NPP) leadership in the constituency broke ground to pave the way for the construction of a new party office.

Emphasising that even the military government of the late President Jerry John Rawlings didn’t last forever, he said the government should be tolerant and resort to democratic means of dealing with any former appointee whom it suspects of any misconduct in their field of work.

He condemned what he referred to as harassment and storming into homes of former appointees in a Rambo style.

The legislator stressed that the government using the National Security personnel or the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) to intimidate former government appointees isn't the right approach, suggesting that such people suspected of any wrongdoing be appropriately invited to assist in investigations, and not the kind of Jakpa-led rambo-style approach.

According to him, the government had so far failed in the discharge of its core mandate to the people and instead plunged the country into the current power crisis being experienced nationwide, as well as mass dismissal of employees and invasion of individual homes, and asked the government to sit up.