Mahama's government has hit rock bottom low -CENAB UK Poll

The NDC government would suffer annihilation if an election were held today as Mahama's government has hit a rock bottom in the estimation of Ghanaian electorate. According to a new poll conducted by CENAB UK, a voluntary advocacy group with affiliates in USA and Ghana, campaigning for the ticket of Nana Akufo Addo and Dr Bawumia, the NDC administration led by John Mahama has hit the least of respect among the Ghanaian electorate. The key indicators for this assessment were based on a series of interviews on issues of corruption, pensions funds, public trust in governance, public debt and the fight against drug trafficking.

According to the poll the widespread acts of corruption by government and public officials and the President's inability to fight is has been cited as the biggest source of the government lack of trust and respect. The unbridled corruption cases that are being exposed on daily basis and yet the government's lack of commitment to deal with them have given cause for the Ghanaians not to believe in the governance of Mahama's administration. The public sentiments showed that the government's lack of response to calls by anti-graft agencies such as Ghana Integrity International (GII), the IEA, The Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition and The Citizens’ Movement Against Corruption, to name a few, suggest that the government has become insensitive to public demands. It has shed its sense of listening and responsive to public sensitivity,

Eighty percent of the people polled suggested that they would not vote NDC in 2016 due to the government's inability to tackle corruption. Another seventy two percent did not trust the NDC on the handling of the pensioners' funds. It would be recalled that the members of the 12 labour unions battling government over the management of their Tier-2 Pension funds have threatened to hit the streets to protest government’s handling of the matter. The workers last month declared a strike demanding government hands over the money to their chosen scheme managers. According to the people polled, the lack of government response to this demand is a clear indication of lack of trust between the government and its work force.

The latest in the loss of confidence in the government is its handling of the cocaine menace. According to the radio survey is the decision of the government to weave its propaganda to underscore the latest cocaine saga in which a lady with multiple identity was arrested with 12.5kilograms of coaching at Heathrow Airport. Ghanaians who were polled were genuinely concerned scout the international repercussion this would bring on people travelling on Ghanaian passports throughout the world. However the government of Ghana is obliviously denying the seriousness of the crime and doing everything to distance themselves from it.

The arrest of Ruby Adu Gyamfi aka Nayeli Ametefeh which has been widely publicised in UK and European media and yet the government of Ghana doing all it can to downplay it has incensed many of the people polled in the survey. A massive ninety percent of the people polled said the double standards being shown by government operatives by surreptitiously going to visit her in prison with the view of silencing her and yet publicly denying her Ghanaian identity smacks of hypocrisy. One woman remarked “when a Ghanaian nurse accidentally fed her baby to death in UK and was jailed, the Ghana Mission staff did not go to visit her in prison. However the Ghana High Commissioner himself is leading a delegation to visit a remanded drugs dealer"

Another sixty percent of the people polled had written of the government about its handling of the energy crisis. The dumsor had become part of our daily lives and the people believed that they would not trust the government on promises of ending it.

The lack of transparency in the government handling of the $700m loan by GNPC, the 17.5% tax on petroleum product at a time Ghana is producing oil and crude oiled prices are falling drastically is the reason that ninety-seven percent of those polled believe the government is not being fair and candid with Ghanaians.

In a separate poll about trust in the President, seventy-eight percent of the people polled believed he had lost focus. Among the particulars shown was his lack of judgment, ability to hire effective ministers and fire bad nuts and his comfortability with corrupt ministers. Another eighty six percent said his brother's involvement with his administration makes the President look corrupt. His handling of the state funds intended for SADA, according to sixty two percent of the people polled meant that he was not committed to reducing the poverty gap between the north and south of Ghana.

Source CENAB UK

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