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What Is Really Wrong With President Mahama?

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 Source: Sarpong, Justice

What is wrong with President Mahama with this insouciance attitude to tell the senior editors and executives of the Ghana Journalists Associations to cut down on the amount of politics discussed on the airwaves and rather focus on developmental issues? What developmental issues are there in Ghana at the moment to be discussed? The President should first advise himself, his Ministers and appointees to stop hopping from one radio station to another impuigning the intergrity of its political nemesis before telling others not to talk about pertinent issues confronting the country because of its political nature.

I can't even believe President Mahama is telling the fourth realm of government how they should do their job. Is he telling the citizens of Ghana not to complain about lack of electricity and water? How can the people discuss developmental issues when they don't have water and electricity and instead of the government targetting the two problematic issues like a laser beam on a target instead start talking about facilitating the travel plans of fake Pastors to Israel? Is this one the developmental issues? What I have found out about President Mahama is that, he doesn't like to be criticized but he should know that, he is a President of Ghana not a King or a chief of Bole-Bamboi. Maybe President Mahama and his callous Ndc people paid a "NOKO FIO" to "Unjustice Kpegah to file his frivolous suit against Nana Akuffo Addo so that the people will stop complaining about lack of electricity and power and talk about Kpegah's suit that President Mahama seems to think is a developmental issue.

President Mahama, the radio stations are there to make money for its owners and they are going to discuss issues that are important to the people and their advertisers are willing to sponsor. Let the government tell the GBC Radio stations what they should do not the private Radio stations. Does he really understand democracy? The Radio stations do call in programmes and the citizens are going to call in and complain about issues affecting them and not what he Mahama wants to hear. What is going on in Ghana "koraa"? People cannot get electricity to entertain themselves after a hard day's work and Mahama is telling the Radio stations to close their avenue to the citizens so that they cannot complain. Are we witnessing the gestation of a Dictator?

I really don't get it what President Mahama is really saying. His Ndc Party is good at criticising others with its Ndc communication team and the President communication team that churns out lies upon lies in what they call Ndc propaganda department. Telling the Radio presenters to cut down on politics and talk about developmental topics when there is no development going on in the country is ridiculous.

Right now there are some Religious hospitals that are not accepting the NHIS members when they want to access health care and when the Radio stations talk about the Mahama administration for having collapsed this noble policy unveiled by NPP, he complains about it as a political issue. So President Mahama doesn't want people to voice their frustrations in a country where flood victims at the Northern Region are left to cater for themselves because Mahama used NADMO materials to buy votes and when the people need help from this agency they can't get it because NADMO too is broke which the CEO of NADMO calls not broke but challenged. If these are not developmental issues, then what is it?

President Mahama, maybe you don't have a clue what is going on in Ghana but the people can talk about developmental projects when there are developmental projects but at the moment, there is no projects worth talking about but only misery. Ghana is bursting at the seams with negative news, armed robbers who seize streets in daytime. No electricity and the "DUM SOR DUM SOR" causing a lot of fires in the country. People can't even get water to bath as your acolyte and number one pompom waving cheerleader, Hassan Ayaricough even admitted about two weeks ago when he said he came to the independence parade in Accra without bathing because there was no water in his house.

Is President Mahama telling the Radio Presenters not to allow their audience to talk when they call in to complain about hospitals and Doctors not willing to treat them because their NHIS cards are worthless? President Mahama, if this job is beyond your capabilities or you don't have stomach to accept crticism, bow out gracefully and let somebody who have answers confronting the country to come in and do this job instead of this "Konongo kaya" attitude because Ghana is fastly becoming a banana Republic under your care.

Ghana is in big trouble and you are not telling the people. There is no way Ghana will not become bankcrupt and a failed state if the 72% of government revenue just goes out to pay government workers salaries. USA spend less than 5% of its revenue on federal workers salaries,Countries in Europe on average spend 10% of its revenue on government workers salaries. President Mahama, if you want to address the workers agitations, just come out and say that the implementation of the SSSS policy has been a failure. You thought you were buying the loyalty of the Police and the Armed Forces when you trippled their salaries to keep you in power not knowing all other government Employees will ask for their pound of flesh. Mr President, enjoy your bad policies because this is poetic justice for election rigging. Unless we reduce government expenditure on salaries, our problem as a country is just beginning.

Justice Sarpong

(CARDINAL of TRUTH)

Columnist: Sarpong, Justice