You'll definitely be jailed when NDC comes to power' - Basintale to Charles Bissue

Malik Basintale, the Deputy Communications Director of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has emphasized that an NDC government will ensure that all corrupt officials under the current administration stand trial in 2025.

Speaking as a guest on TV3's New Day programme, he specifically mentioned Charles Bissue, the New Patriotic Party Parliamentary Candidate for the Essikado-Ketan Constituency, as a potential candidate for imprisonment.

"President Mahama has stated that by this time next year, many corrupt appointees will be standing trial.

"He has repeatedly said that the president's corrupt appointees who engage in corruption will be investigated, and I know that by next year at this time, even Mr. Charles Bissue will be under investigation," he said.

"He is the first person to be caught on camera counting corrupt money, and all his associates will be prosecuted. So, if it is because of the prosecution of such people that you stand on a podium and say 'we will never hand over power,' then prepare for jail next year. Whether you like it or not, the NDC will be in power, and people like Charles Bissue will face the law and go to jail," he stated.

The opposition party has been vocal about corruption allegations against the government led by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, with various assurances of serious actions against culpable individuals if they win power in the December 2024 polls.

At her unveiling as the running mate for the NDC, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang reiterated the party's resolve to hold corrupt members of the current government accountable.

"John and I have agreed that whoever has participated in the plunder of the state must be held accountable. This is not a threat; it is a promise, based on the wishes of our citizens across various political and social divides, and anchored in the principle of accountability," she stated during her inaugural address at an event on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, at the UPSA Auditorium in Accra.

In her speech, she accused the government of fostering cronyism and nepotism, to the detriment of the Ghanaian populace.

"Across the political divide, among social and professional groups, and among the youth, there are complaints and stories of state capture, where this government has used its power not for the broader interest of all Ghanaians but to favor a small clique. What is that?" she questioned.

She highlighted that under the current administration, issues such as ethnocentrism have been disguised as intellectualism, leading the country toward collapse.

"Let's face the facts: The promotion of ethnocentric elitism masquerading as intellectualism, nepotism disguised as expertise, weakness posing as courage, and crony capitalism presented as development in freedom—these have never served a country determined to make progress.

"The most significant achievement of these practices has been a country on the brink of insolvency, with its natural resources, land, and environment in rebellion, and a populace harassed and intimidated into numbness, or as some cynically say, bribed into silence," she concluded.

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