Mahama’s ‘dead goat’ warning to labour: President Mahama has sent the strongest indications yet that his government will not be coerced into over spending in 2016 by the weight of demands and strikes of workers. President Mahama indicated that, he had the opportunity to experience so many demonstration exercises and strike actions within his two years in office, "so I don’t think it can get worse in the second two years. It is said that when you kill a goat and you frighten it with a knife it doesn’t fear the knife because it is dead already. I have the dead goat syndrome going forward. So we are going to ensure that we have fiscal discipline.” Read more