‘Thank you Mr President’ - Sarkodie hails Mahama after Ghana rejects health compact

Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie has expressed gratitude to President John Dramani Mahama following the president's recent explanation of why Ghana rejected a proposed health compact from the United States.

Earlier, President Mahama, in an interview, described the proposed health compact from the United States of America as “humiliating” to the country because the US requested access to Ghana’s health data, among other things.

“...The compact was brought to Cabinet, and we flagged several things in the compact. One, it says that we shall give the United States our pathogen profile. They also say we should give our medical records. I mean, who takes another country’s medical records?

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“And so that was strange. And then it says we would have to put up a certain amount of money as part of the programme into healthcare. And then it also says that any medications or any medical products that shall be brought into our country, our Food and Drug Authority has absolutely no right to inspect. I mean, it was humiliating,” President Mahama noted.

Following Mahama’s statement, Sarkodie, in a post shared on X, thanked the President for rejecting the health pact.

According to him, Ghana deserves better, adding that it is high time the United States and other Western countries started respecting Ghana.

“Thank you, Mr President… Hopefully, one day, we gain back the full respect deserved,” he said.

Read the post below:

Thank you Mr President … Hopefully one day we gain back the full respect deserved 🇬🇭 pic.twitter.com/790cRL7C8r

— Sarkodie (@sarkodie) September 28, 2026