The Dangerous Cancellation Agenda: How Mahama’s contract terminations are putting Ghanaian lives at risk

Ladies and gentlemen, compatriots, and defenders of Ghana’s progress,

Eagle Eye International confronts a growing and alarming pattern, one that strikes at the very heart of national development, public welfare, and institutional stability. It is a trend unfolding under the leadership of HE John Dramani Mahama, and it is threatening essential services that millions of Ghanaians rely on every day.

It started with the abrupt termination of the school placement contract, a system that, despite its challenges, supported transparency and efficiency in the school admissions process. Instead of President Mahama strengthening, improving, and or enforcing accountability, he (through the Education Minister) chose the easiest and most destructive route: cancel the contract and leave chaos in its place. Indeed, the chaotic scenes, frustration, and disappointments were embarrassing to say the least.

Then came the termination of the Lightwave Health Information Management System (LHIMS) contract by the Ministry of Health. LHIMS, a system designed to modernise health information management, reduce paperwork, eliminate fraud, and streamline patient care, was simply scrapped. No tested working alternative. No transition plan. No consultation with health professionals. Just another reckless cancellation that put health delivery at risk and threw hospitals into confusion. As we speak, health facilities do not have records or history of patients, no medical records to trace for diagnosis, forcing facilities to resort to the manual folder system.

As if the above indecisive decisions are not enough, then bam, comes the tragically, shockingly, irresponsibly life-killing one; the shutdown of Zipline’s medical delivery operations, one of Ghana’s most innovative life-saving technologies.

Zipline has served our rural communities faithfully by delivering blood, essential medicines, vaccines, and emergency supplies to the remotest corners of our country. It has saved mothers during childbirth, stabilised accident victims, supported CHPS compounds, and strengthened our national health supply chain.

Yet, instead of celebrating innovation, preserving a system that has delivered tens of thousands of emergency medical payloads, and instead of protecting rural lives, the Mahama government appears to be following a disturbing agenda: terminate, cancel, dismantle, and disrupt.

Please, is HE John Dramani Mahama not aware of the adverse consequences of his indecisive decision to terminate the Zipliine contract?

Is this leadership? Is this how a government committed to healthcare treats rural Ghana? Are we witnessing a governance style built on personal vendetta, political spite, or an inability to sustain visionary initiatives started by previous administrations?

Eagle Eye International is asking, if every essential contract inherited from the previous government is being cancelled, what is being built, what is being replaced, and how many lives must be endangered before this reckless trend is stopped?

It is time to call this what it is: A contract termination agenda, driven by poor judgment and a lack of respect for continuity in national development. When policies that save lives are sacrificed on the altar of politics, it is not just systems that die, but also precious lives.

Let us be clear, shutting down Zipline is not just an administrative decision. It is a direct attack on rural healthcare, an assault on innovation, and a betrayal of the ordinary Ghanaian whose life depends on timely medical delivery.

But the most troubling concern is, why are the CSOs quiet? Are the churches and religious bodies in bed with or supporting these deadly and indiscreet decisions from the Mahama government? The silence of the clergy is a deep and strong cause to worry

Today, we say enough is enough. Ghanaians will not sit quietly while essential services are dismantled one by one. We reject this cancellation agenda, and we call on all well-meaning citizens to stand up for continuity, innovation, and the lives of our people.

From the look of the trend, Free SHS may be the next to be terminated.

Ghana is bleeding.