[ 2017-01-16 ]

Don’t repeat Mahama’s mistakes – Amidu to Akufo-Addo
Anti-corruption campaigner, Martin Amidu has
admonished Ghana’s President, Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo not to repeat mistakes by his
predecessor, John Dramani Mahama.

Martin Amidu had accused Mahama’s government as
very corrupt and campaigned against his
re-election.

He prior to the election also encouraged Ghanaian
to vote against the Mahama-led government to
enable Ghana recoup the GHc51 million
controversial judgment debt unlawfully paid
businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome.

In his recent piece, Martin Amidu urged
Akufo-Addo not to take Ghanaians for granted.

“Your Excellency, these ordinary Ghanaians are
not looking for appointments or positions in your
Government neither do they care about the usual
diplomatic political correctness of the
international community in pretending that these
citizens did not actively thwart the incumbent’s
rigging machine that forced the acceptance of
defeat and the symbolic arrangements for conceding
defeat before the results were finally announced
by the Electoral Commission. All that these
ordinary and committed citizens care about is that
you never repeat the mistakes of your immediate
predecessor’s government which simply took
Ghanaians for granted as undiscerning and looted
them to pulp,” he stated.

He also asked President Akufo-Addo to honour his
promise of blocking corruption from creeping into
his government.

“Mr. President, your anti-corruption promise and
agenda in my view was your winning manifesto item
at the elections whose actualization we are
expecting you to implement without fear or favour,
affection or ill will, no matter whose ass is
gored. I agree entirely with former President
Rawlings that it is the high anti-corruption moral
ground you occupied over the NDC which made your
victory a foregone conclusion. Many Ghanaians,
like me, are not followers of your political party
but I dare say that as long as you continue
occupying that high moral ground and fight
corruption in deeds you will succeed and your
first four-year tenure will usher in the golden
age of Ghana again. I also have no reason to doubt
that as long as you always put Ghana First in your
administration the present goodwill you enjoy will
endure throughout your tenure,” he added.

Source - citifmonline.com

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