John Mahama
We do not know what former President John Mahama would say to the World Bank’s report that his mismanagement of the Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) is responsible for the poor state of the country’s economy today.
His party propagandists and so-called experts are at the throat of the World Bank for being so blunt.
He might or not respond, we dare state. Be it as it may, the revelation by watchers of the global economy is revealing and indicative of the fact that indeed the chicken have come home to roost.
Being quick to dismiss external factors such as post COVID-19 fallouts and the Russian triggered war with Ukraine, they never mention the mismanagement of the PPAs done by the World Bank.
Sometimes they cite the World Bank and IMF for their position, claiming that long before these external challenges the economy was on heat because of the mismanagement by the NPP government.
Having pointed at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) to make their case against President Nana Akufo-Addo for, in their opinion, inflicting hardships on the people, they have turned their propaganda machinery against the two global institutions.
Listening to their experts on energy, Dr. Kwabena Donkor and John Jinapor trying to discredit the World Bank’s assertion is an exercise in deception.
The challenge facing this country is the entrenched position of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on national affairs when even the experts teach them what the best practices are.
They are not humble enough to admit their failures and team up with our leaders to resolve the challenges.
When fake reports were made about the decision of China to take over our revenue from cocoa, energy and oil because we collaterised their loan to us, the NDC again used that reportage to attack President Akufo-Addo for mismanagement when the NDC government dissipated our resources for loans in the past.
A denial of such a reportage by China did not have the NDC propagandist apologise to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government.
As for the NDC, it is difficult to vouch on the patriotism of the membership, from the top to the least when it comes to their appetite for power. Their serial leader, former President Mahama, was at his best to misinform the people at Hohoe last Sunday during the celebration of the ill-famed June 4 coup. Listen to him tell his followers that he is seeking power again to correct the mismanagement of President Akufo-Addo.
Sometimes we wonder whether Mahama was the same person who was President from 2012 to 2016 when he said we have eaten the meat and we now have the bones, over four years of ‘dumsor’, the arrogance of his appointees, bus branding scandal and ‘akonfem’ flying to Burkina Faso as well as the Ford gift from a Burkinabe contractor.
The challenges of our time make Mahama speak as if he is an angel. Let us remind Mahama that we have not forgotten the incompetence he displayed while he was President and in his confused state he signed PPAs that have strangulated the economy.
And instead of pleading with Ghanaians to forgive him for the pain he has inflicted on us, he can look us in the face and ask us to trust him with the highest office of the land. God forbid. Tweaa!