[ 2021-02-25 ]

Amewu withdraws ‘conman’ comment he made against Mahama
Railways Minister-designate, John Peter Amewu has
withdrawn a description he made about Mr John
Dramani Mahama to the effect that the Presidential
Candidate of the National Democratic Congress
(NDC) in last year’s elections, was a conman.


He withdrew the comment after appearing before the
Appointments Committee of Parliament during his
vetting on Wednesday February 24.



Mr Amewu, when he was the Minister of Lands and
Natural Resources, descried former President
Mahama as a conman who failed to honour promises
his administration made for the mining sector.

His comment came after the former Ghanaian leader
delivered what they consider as an unfavourable
assessment of government’s anti-galamsey
efforts.

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“What has Mahama been able to do? Today, we have
created a lot of mining districts, we’ve created
12 mining districts and 33 satellite districts. We
are bringing mining back to the decentralization
level. The small-scale mining which was in the
status quo was supposed to have mining
communities.

“These were not inaugurated in all the years
Mahama was President, we have just inaugurated
them, bringing mining to the community of the
owners of the resources. Decentralization, this is
the approach, so I am so disappointed in
[Mahama].



“He cannot address the problems. I’m telling
the small-scale miners that this gentleman is a
con man. He’s deceiving them and if they dare go
in for him just because of galamsey, this country
will come down,” he said about Mr Mahama

When asked what informed this comment and whether
he himself is also a conman, by Awutu Senya West
Lawmaker Gizella Tetteh –Agbotui during the
vetting Mr Amewu who is also MP for Hohoe said
“Mr Chairman, I am not a conman. Yes it is on
record that I have used that word. It was in
reaction to a statement that I issued when I was
the Lands minister, the implications and the
dictate of that word was in a context at the time
I was issuing that statement.

“The conman was not directed to what the
interpretation might have been made. Of course, it
was not an appropriate word to use at the time. In
that context I have withdrawn that word.”

Source - 3 News

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