Stinking Scandal ROCKS VEEP
…As Investors Are Left Stranded & Angry
By Citizen News Desk
The Citizen Newspaper has established that the office of the Vice President is now the investment transaction centre of the President Mills led Government where all manner of questionable financial dealings are done in the name of Ghanaians.
The rationale behind this venture is for the second most important person in the country in terms of political scheme of things and President Mills’ right-hand-man, to appropriate a slice of the investment inflows in the country in order to build a fat bank account to prosecute his 2016 presidential agenda. As a result, every investor that steps foot on Ghana’s first point of call is the office of the former MP for Bole-Bamboi. However, this corrupt move by the Vice President to amass wealth for the task ahead of him in 2016 has crossed the line drawn for him by the President, Professor John Evans Atta Mills.
This paper’s sources in Government have it that this practice has come to the attention of the sitting President and he is said to be uncomfortable about what analysts say is a bad governance practice and without doubt has a tinge of corruption. But at the time of filing this report, the man who is seeking a second presidential term has been unable to either call the Vice President to order or reprimand him. Because of this leadership inertia and vacuum on the part of the sitting President to crack the whip on his erring functionaries and subordinates, some of the presidential aides have taken advantage of the situation and have joined the fray.
Currently, there is a long and unwinding cue of investors who are knocking hard on the door of the Vice President to seek his political blessing and financial guarantee to smoothen their investment path for the growth of their business and investment in the country.
A frustrated investor (name withheld for now) who has been in the cue and has never had the opportunity to meet with Mr. John Mahama, has no option than to pay a presidential aide working at office of the Vice President (name withheld for now) an amount of $65000 to quicken his meeting with the Vice President of Ghana for a business transaction.
Information available to The Citizen Newspaper indicates that when the Vice President got wind of this corrupt behaviour of his aide, instead of reprimanding the said aide, he swiftly arranged to meet with the businessman to calm tempers. Till now, nothing has happened to the corrupt special aide. The question now is; has the Vice President endorsed such behaviour in his office? Can we say that the special aide is learning from the boss himself?
With Kufuor's many trips abroad to sell the nation, Aliu Mahama held the fort in an admirable manner to the extent that political connoisseurs were of the conviction that he was better placed for the presidency than his boss, Kufuor. But since Mills-Mahama administration came into force, the office of vice president has taken a nose dive. For the past three and half years, John Mahama is perceived to have brought shame to the office to the extent that it is doubtful if any other future Vice President could ever break his record.
If Ghanaians would recall the most calamitous of all TV shows on US cable dubbed, “The Housewives of Atlanta” a shocking revelation was made in the latter part of last year on this very show when one of the guests on the show, Ms. Phaedra Parks boasted that she had a direct line to Ghana’s Vice President. According to Ms. Parks, she had wined and dined with the Vice President, who is actually a married man, when she visited the country. In her own words, she “hobnobbed” with Vice President, John Dramani Mahama during her stay in Ghana. To back up her allegation, she placed a direct call to the Vice President from her home in Atlanta.
To the shock of viewers, Veep answered the call, thus putting business aside and engaged Ms. Parks in a conversation and later discovered that the conversation was being recorded; hence gave an excuse and hanged up. The Vice President of the citadel of African democracy had embarrassed the country and Africa as he demeaned his own integrity. John Mahama, a man more interested in supplementary activities than the nation’s business is always referred to as the one of the finest Veeps Ghana has ever had.
It is on record that anytime President Mills travels abroad, something scandalous happens. From the bye election violence at “Atiwa” to the illegal removal of Dr. Frimpong Boateng, and many others, Vice President Mahama was in charge of the country. The Citizen thinks that for a Vice President, and potential president to have presided over such colossal incidents, leaves a lot to be desired.
It is an indisputable fact that when his boss, Mills, was Vice President, at least he was able to lie low and learn from his boss; and that was what made his boss, President Jerry John Rawlings at the time to name him as his successor, even though things turned other way round based on the kind of advice he is currently receiving from his advisers. Can we say the same thing about Vice President John Mahama today?
Source: The Citizen Newspaper (thecitizen.news@yahoo.com) +233 27 731 4655
