John Dramani Mahama
Less than five months to the crucial December general election, we have a responsibility to expose the naysayers who are bent on leading the people astray.
Democracy is a number game but it is also about rules. In this regard, we reiterate Ephesians 4:25 here for the benefit of some of our compatriots who may be susceptible to the propaganda of some politicians. It says, “So you must stop telling lies. Tell each other the truth because we all belong to each other in the same body (country).”
Again, we should be wary of those who want us to sell our birthright because of the country’s temporary challenges. We should in these critical times not behave like Esau who rashly sold his birthright to his younger brother, Jacob, for a pot of stew.
In an act of deception, Jacob and his mother tricked Isaac to take possession of what was Esau’s birthright.
Ghanaians seem to be in similar circumstances now as some seem to be saying we can no longer endure the hardships for a better Ghana.
The NDC has managed to brainwash a section of the electorate who are on the prowl confusing majority with the refrain, “Ghana is hard and living conditions are intolerable under President Akufo-Addo”. To these NDC elements and their allies, of what use is free SHS (birthright), when we are about to die.
In the meantime, John Mahama and his NDC have so far failed to outline any pragmatic policies to rescue those who are ready to sell their birthright for “lions and years of dumsor, and to some extent undefined 24-hour economy.”
Having failed to convince Ghanaians about the 24-hour economy and now Women’s Banking, the NDC has latched on predictions by Fitch Solutions to say that even international rating agencies have recognised the failure of our government.
John Mahama and his NDC are yet to convince Ghanaians how they intend to fix the economy from 2025 if they are elected to run the country. It is not a new chorus that high inflation has weakened living standards. The question is, does the answer lie in John Mahama’s undefined 24-hour economy and another bank called Women’s Bank when there is one in the system already?
Prior to the polls by Fitch Solutions, all John Mahama does on his campaign trail is a fruitless attempt to explain the 24-hour economy which Ghanaians find very difficult to associate with, including supporters of the NDC. Do we have to set up a specialised bank to take care of the needs of women traders? Perhaps, this bank for women will be a “susu” bank because of John Mahama’s concept notes he is sharing with his supporters.
It will not be out of place to suggest the long hand of the NDC in these phony polls to set the agenda and send the people astray. President Akufo-Addo and his men, the NDC claims, are engaged in state capture. They have forgotten what they did to state-owned enterprises when they were in power because their serial leader, John Mahama thinks we have short memories.
Those who know what state capture means know what the NDC government in 1993 did to the Ghana Film Industry Corporation, which has transmogrified into Media General, owners of TV3, Onua TV, Onua FM and others, owned by NDC apparatchiks and financiers. Do you now have any doubts why TV3, is an official network for the NDC campaign?
Fellow Ghanaians, to be part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it takes more than an undefined 24-hour economy copied from NDPC data, that some NDC elements argue includes the rearing of lions for export and the “susu” Women’s Bank.
John Mahama and the NDC should stop talking about their experiences in government because our bitterest experience since independence was over four years of dumsor under their watch from 2012 to 2016. We need very impactful policies to ameliorate our suffering; something people-centred like the free SHS.
Even Guggisberg outperformed some of our post independent governments. Anybody who doubts the infrastructure record of the Akufo-Addo government should take a trip on the Ofankor to Nsawam Road, and such a person if not an ingrate would clap for the NPP government.
We can say that since independence, no road project of the magnitude of the Ofankor-Nsawam road has ever been undertaken. The outcome of the December 7 polls does not lie in the heads of Mussa Dankwah’s Global Info Analytics and their allies, Fitch Solutions, but in the hands of Ghanaians who feel or see a brighter future despite the current temporary challenges. The alternative is still scary like COVID-19 and dengue fever.