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Opinion

Ghana’s economy never recovered under Mahama, Seth Terkper – John Boadu

• The battle between the NPP and the NDC over who managed the Ghanaian economy better is still on • According to NPP’s general secretary, Mahama inherited a broken economy he created for himself after the demise of Prof. Atta Mills • John Boadu said Mahama is creating an impression that he’s the best to garner the empathy of Ghanaians The General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, has averred that Former President, John Dramani Mahama, and his finance minister, Seth Terkper poorly managed the local economy. He continued that the economy could not bounce back to normal as expected under the Mahama-led administration , a situation that led to the increased taxation of goods and services. Speaking at a press conference held in Accra on Tuesday, September 7, 2021, the NPP General Secretary said there are records to buttress his claim against John Dramani Mahama and Seth Terkper as far as the issue of mismanagement of the economy is concerned. “Former President John Mahama and Mr. Seth Terkper are on public record as being the worst duo to have ever been in charge of the Ghanaian economy at the same time (2012 to 2016). Yet in their public forum on the 6th of September, 2021, the duo sought to create the impression that they had the best of times running the Ghanaian economy. Unfortunately for them, the facts show otherwise,” he said. “Much as John Mahama seeks re-election on a campaign platform of ‘going back’ to the IMF, he attempts to confuse history by painting a rosy picture of his disastrous management of the Ghanaian economy between 2012 and 2016. Indeed, he put the economy in free fall after extreme reckless expenditure in excess of some GH¢12 billion in pursuit of election victory in 2012…His economy, under Seth Terkper, never recovered, leading to unheard of taxation measures on condoms and cutlasses,” John Boadu added. He urged Ghanaians to be vigilant and not be swayed by the enticing words of John Dramani Mahama to vote for him in 2024. He continued that the NPP will remain focused on investing in Ghanaians and also solve the country’s development challenges. —Ghanaweb Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093

Opinion

Mahama’s ‘do-or-die’ comment attracts condemnation and commendation

• Social media users have reacted to the ‘do-or-die’ comment by former president John Dramani Mahama • Whereas some are condemning the comment, others are defending it • The former president used the term during a radio interview on his Thank You Tour Social media users are largely split over former president John Dramani Mahama’s pronouncement that the 2024 elections will be a ‘do-or-die’ affair, especially at the polling stations. Mahama, speaking on Akina FM in the Bono Region where he is currently on a ‘Thank You Tour,’ said the main opposition National Democratic Congress will be extra vigilant at the polling station level to guard their votes. “There is a saying that you take lessons from whatever happens. We have learnt our lessons from the 2020 polls. The 2024 elections will be won or lost at the polling station. It will be ‘do-or-die’ at the polling stations, I am not saying all-die-be-die. “The right thing must be done during the polls. In 2024, we will win the elections at the polling station and won’t wait for collation centre results nor petition the Supreme Court. “There at the collation centers and polling stations, we will make sure that everything is free, transparent and fair. We don’t want to cheat them and we don’t want to be cheated. Let the vote be clean and whatever is on the hearts of voters be done.” The comments have attracted condemnation from those that are interpreting the term to mean ‘violence’ will be employed while for supporters, it is a welcome call which sends a strong signal of non-intimidation to come 2024. NPP MP for Nsawam-Adoagyiri tweeted his stern condemnation of the comments whiles the NDC’s Cassiel Ato-Forson wondered how it is that NPP members who defended Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s infamous “all die be die” comment are today condemning ‘harmless’ ‘do-or-die’ comment. —Ghanaweb Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093

Politics

NPP dares John Mahama to provide alternative solutions

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called on former president and 2020 National Democratic Congress (NDC) flag bearer, Mr John Dramani Mahama to provide an alternative plan for the management of an economy hit by COVID-19. The General Secretary of the NPP, Mr. John Boadu says that the former president must have some gratitude for the NPP government for rescuing a perishing economy he bequeathed Ghanaians instead of merely criticizing the government. According to John Boadu who addressed a press conference at the party headquarters in Accra on Tuesday, to react to criticisms of the government by Mr Mahama, the government has successfully managed the COVID-19 situation and recorded a fast growing economy. Mr Mahama on Monday, September 6, addressed a platform of the NDC on the state of the country’s economy and accused the government of hiding behind Covid-19 when they have mismanaged the economy. However, Mr Boadu would do a better job by putting out an alternative plan to help address the country’s economic challenges and the COVID-19 situation instead of an open dialogue he has asked for. “Indeed, what is John Mahama’s alternative to anything, apart from the IMF? If you are the alternative, then spell out your alternatives to the Ghanaian people now. He is asking for a dialogue on the economy. There are many forums available for such a dialogue but he needs to put forward his plan”, he said. Review According to Mr Boadu, the assertions by Mr Mahama were false and that he is out of touch with post-COVID-19 governance. Addressing the accusation of economic mismanagement, he said the country saw the worst economy under the NDC government led by President Mahama. He said that NDC administration was marked by corruption, economic crisis and mismanagement, explaining also that the period of economic mismanagement was marked by rising inflation and declining growth from 14% in 2011 to 3.9% in 2016. John Boadu said the intervention of the NPP government has led to a fast recovery of the country’s economy and financial sector. “Former President Mahama actively oversaw the worst crisis ever to hit our financial sector and presided over the rot that, if not for the Akufo-Addo administration’s intervention, would have brought the whole financial sector on its knees. His negligence has cost over GHS21 billion of public resources to correct. Meanwhile, he turned judgement debt payments into a cottage industry”, he said. Mr Boadu said that Ghana has been globally commended for successfully managing the Covid-19 pandemic and that the country is one of the fastest-growing economies during the pandemic. “John Mahama’s lack of understanding of the Covid-19 economy is positively dangerous for Ghana because it badly skews his feeble attempts at analysis of our current economic situation. The IMF, to which he trumpets we should go to, has certified our economy as one of the fastest-growing in terms of Covid-19 economic rebound,” he said. —Peacefmonline Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093

Sports

John Mahama supports RTU with Ghc 50,000 as he says ‘THANK YOU’ to Northern Region

John Mahama Ghana’s former President has given GHS50,000 to Real Tamale United (RTU) to assist them to get ready for the upcoming Premier League. Mr. Mahama made the donation during his ‘THANK YOU’ in the Northern Region of Ghana. “I want to take this opportunity to congratulate RTU on qualifying to the Premier League and to say that we are all supporters of RTU”. “And, as the Regional Minister said, let us all come together to support the pride of the north”, adding: “That’s our team”. “And, so, between me and the NDC group in parliament led by leader Haruna Iddrisu, we are going to make a donation of GHS50,000 to RTU to prepare for the Premier League”, Mr. Mahama said. Mr. Mahama said they will continue to support the team to become great again. “And that’s not all; we’ll be following all of you guys who are managing the team and we’ll help you so that RTU reclaims its former glory”. Mr. Mahama has been going around regions of Ghana to thank them for their wonderful support given him during the 2020 general elections. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093

Politics

Agenda 111: Prioritize making Wa hospital & others fully operational- JM to Akufo-Addo

Former President and 2020 Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has asked President Nana Akufo-Addo to ensure the full operationalization of the Upper West Regional Hospital in Wa. This, he says, will ensure that as a referral facility the hospital can adequately address the health needs of the people in the region. Responding to the remarks of the Wa Naa Fuseini Seidu Pelpuo IV, who lamented the lack of some key infrastructure in the region, the former President requested that the Akufo-Addo government provides the required seed money to fully operationalize the Regional Hospital. “Since he commissioned it, the hospital has not been given seed money to operate fully. And so it is not operating at full capacity. That is supposed to be the regional hospital, the major referral hospital for the people of the Upper West” he bemoaned. With the Covid-19 pandemic stretching the nation’s existing health facilities, the former President, who is in the region to thank the people for their support for him and his running mate, Professor Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang, and the NDC Parliamentary Candidates, called for re-prioritization of all such projects that are ready to be used. “While we think about building more hospitals, we must quickly utilize the capacity that we have already. Because it will be a lack of prioritization if you have a wholly built regional hospital with all equipment that you need there and you can’t operationalize it and yet prioritize the construction of new hospitals.” He, therefore, pressed for the government to “prioritize getting this hospital fully operational so that people can have access to good health care.” President Mahama spent the whole of Monday in the region meeting stakeholders and NDC party supporters and executives to thank them for their votes. This is the 5th region visited by the 2020 NDC Candidate. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093

Opinion

“John Manama is pretty good at awarding contracts but had no clue how to pay for them–Gabby

A member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has touted former President John Manama as pretty good at awarding contracts but had no clue how to pay for them! This Government has been good at settling the billions in arrears it inherited and still manages to go about the business of implementing its own flagship programmes. Mr. Otchere-Darko, Said Akufo Addo’s government has been good at settling the billions in arrears it inherited and still manages to go about the business of implementing its own flagship programmes. “The record shows that NPP builds for NDC to destroy. You don’t need to look further than to compare 2008 to 2016, and 2016 to now. “I will say this with all the evidence available and will dare any analyst to challenge and, please, do so with facts and not propaganda. Since the First Republic, no government has done more to put or keep money in people’s pockets than the NPP. “If in doubt over how and where your money is being spent look no further beyond the evidence around you. Things are clearly not where we all want them to be, but, I dare say in all modesty that even with all the social and economic struggles that the country and the people are battling under this pandemic, this Government has performed at least creditably better than John Mahama’s record shows he would have been able to manage. And, I say this with all humility, Mr. Asare Otchere-Darko said this in a write-up.” He insisted that, former President Mahama destroyed what he inherited from Mills in July 2012 and handed over the running of Ghana’s oil-rich economy to the IMF when there was no crisis. “Simply put, he himself was the crisis! He home-grew a crisis and outsourced the solution. That is the record of “Mahama the Disaster”. However, Mr. Gabby in a response to Mr. Mahama regarding a news article that quoted the former President as saying “NPP wants to break the 8 to protect itself from corruption”. “The simple response to that must be that the NPP wants to break the 8 in order to protect Ghana and the gains being made for Ghanaians from the likes of “Mahama the Disaster”, he noted. The two main Ghanaian political parties NDC/NPP have always tagged each other in recent times as the most corrupt in terms of governance. But in the meantime, read the full statement by Gabby below: MAHAMA AND AKUFO-ADDO, WHO DOES MORE WITH TAXPAYERS’ MONEY? I read John Mahama saying on his belated “thank you tour” that NPP wants to break the 8 in order to protect itself from corruption. The simple response to that must be that the NPP wants to break the 8 in order to protect Ghana and the gains being made for Ghanaians from the likes of “Mahama the Disaster”. The evidence is still fresh in our minds why John Mahama was a disaster and I shudder to think how he would have handled the COVID-19 crisis and its disastrous impact on the economy today. Our problems are, of course, many and varied. Our struggle is historic, deep, real and naked. So, it is easy to be convinced by an acerbic and sweet tongue that can hit hard and promise paradise. But, we must be guided by what such a tongue does with its mind, heart and hands when given the opportunity. My simple response to John Mahama on why NPP must break the 8 is because it is clear to Ghanaians that the NDC doesn’t seem to see any alternative to present to Ghanaians in 2024 but him, John Mahama, and it is obvious from what he did to what he inherited from his own boss, President John Atta Mills, that he would destroy what NPP was fixing if returned in future. Mahama destroyed what he inherited from Mills in July 2012 and handed over the running of Ghana’s oil-rich economy to the IMF when there was no crisis. Simply put, he himself was the crisis! He home-grew a crisis and outsourced the solution. That is the record of “Mahama the Disaster”. It should be more than clear to Ghanaian voters that in 2024, the National Democratic Congress intends to bring back John Dramani Mahama. Yes. It is what it is. Why else is he embarking on a “thank you tour” nearly a year after being rejected for the second comprehensive time by Ghanaians? Unless, of course, his mission is to thank Ghanaians for rejecting him. So it appears that the choice for 2024 is between the NPP and John Mahama’s NDC. We are less than a year in Akufo-Addo’s second and final term. I am confident that once the next leadership dye is cast, the NPP will go knocking on doors to break the 8 with confidence that they have delivered largely on the mandate given and there is the need to protect and build on what has been delivered they deserve to be maintained (under a new leader) who can be trusted to protect the gains made and add onto that his or her own new ideas, style, competence, vision and leadership to take Ghana up to the next level. The record shows that NPP builds for NDC to destroy. You don’t need to look further than to compare 2008 to 2016, and 2016 to now. I will say this with all the evidence available and will dare any analyst to challenge and, please, do do so with facts and not propaganda. Since the First Republic, no government has done more to put or keep money in people’s pockets than the NPP. If in doubt over how and where your money is being spent look no further beyond the evidence around you. Things are clearly not where we all want them to be, but, I dare say in all modesty that even with all the social and economic struggles that the country and the people are battling

Business

I’ve reduced Mahama’s 15% inflation to 7.9%, fixed his ‘unbalanced’, ‘tipping point’ economy – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said his government has been able to reduce inflation to 7.9 per cent from the 15 per cent he inherited from the Mahama administration in 2017. Justifying the banking and financial sector clean-up exercise after swearing in the new board of directors of the Bank of Ghana at the Jubilee House on Friday, 20 August 2021, the president remarked: “Probably the most difficult problem my government met when coming into office, was the state of the banking and financial sector”. According to him, “many of our banks were in distress and have been kept on unsustainable and artificial life support by the central bank”. “The supervisory agencies, were, unfortunately, not performing their duties which allowed weak governance and management structures of many banks, to fester”, he observed. In the president’s estimation, “we were in a desperate situation and urgent, radical measures had to be taken to prevent the collapse of the entire financial and banking sector with consequences too dire to contemplate”. “The Bank of Ghana, under a new leadership, intervened and restored sanity to the sector and in the process, saved the banks involved and the funds of some 4.6 million depositors”, President Akufo-Addo said. Also, he said the government found some GHS21 billion to fund the clean-up exercise, “which has enabled a more robust financial and banking services sector to emerge the better to finance the rapid development of our nation”. Adducing further evidence to back his assertion that the clean-up exercise has been helpful to the economy, the president quoted a comment made on the subject by the World Bank’s Country Director for Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Mr Pierre Laporte, in a one-on-one interview granted to the Class Morning Show on Class91.3 FM by saying: “A few days ago, the World Bank Country Director for Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone, had this to say about the banking sector clean-up: ‘It was important that this clean-up happened. Maybe the details could have been done differently. I won’t get into that but under direction and what happened, it was important because you cannot have a financial sector that is plagued by non-performing banks, non-performing loans, institutions that have poor governance, institutions that cannot honour people’s desire to have their funds back’”. The president stressed that his predecessor left him a broken economy which he has been able to salvage. “As I intimated earlier, my government inherited, in 2017, an economy riddled with macroeconomic imbalances and a financial sector that was at the tipping point of collapse but dressed up in camouflage by unsustainable daily support from the central bank”, he noted. “We had to introduce, immediately, reforms and corrective measures to address the imbalances and restore stability”, the president said. He pointed out: “Very quickly, with the support of the Bank of Ghana, macroeconomic stability was restored, which provided a sound environment to underpin the government’s economic diversification and transformation process”. Today, he noted, “there’s clear evidence that inflation has been well-contained”. The previous board of the Bank of Ghana, the president recalled, was inaugurated in August 2017, “at a time when inflation was some 12 per cent down from the 15 per cent inherited from the Mahama era”. “And four years down the line, inflation has been well-managed and has dropped to as low as 8 per cent at the end of the second quarter of the year”, the president observed. He said “inflation is currently at 7.9 per cent at the end of July 2021 within the target band of the Bank of Ghana”. He continued: “I’m very encouraged by the many corporate governance measures that have been put in place by the Bank of Ghana to mitigate future bank failures and ensure that we have a strong banking sector that can drive the transformation agenda of the government”. “Indeed, recent policy measures introduced by the Bank, are commendable and align with the overall objective of moving Ghana to a situation beyond aid”. —classfm Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093

Opinion

Martin Amidu didn’t get the kind of cooperation he needed to work – Mahama

Former President, John Dramani Mahama has said, the first Special Prosecutor did not get the kind of cooperation he needed to be able to do the work. According to Mr. Mahama, the first special prosecutor, Martin Amidu complained of so many things and as a result, could not continue to succeed. However, the presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2020 General Elections believes that, if the current Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng is allowed by the government to do his appointed job, he will definitely succeed. “The first Special Prosecutor did not get the kind of cooperation he needed to be able to do the work that he had been given. We heard him complain about funding of the office, in terms of logistics and finance to recruit the kind of personnel that he needed to do the job,” ex-President Mahama said during his THANK YOU TOUR in Tamale on Thursday. He further pointed “We also heard many complaints where the executive and the political establishment had attempted to interfere in his job. The beauty of the Special Prosecutor is the independence of the office and his ability to investigate corruption notwithstanding whose ox is gored. When you take that independence away, it robs the office of its usefulness. We hope that those things will be corrected under this new Special Prosecutor.” Mr. Mahama is currently embarking on a THANK YOU TOUR across the regions of Ghana. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093

Opinion

You have set a bad precedence, remember the table will turn one day – John Mahama to Akufo-Addo

The former President John Dramani Mahama has said, Nana Addo’s government has set a bad precedence following the closure of some radio stations that delayed in renewing their license. The former President who was on a ‘THANK YOU TOUR’ to appreciate the people of the Upper East Region for their wonderful support during the 2020 general election made the pronouncement to the Upper East Regional House of Chiefs on Tuesday, August 17, 2021. According to Mr. Mahama, the constitution guarantees freedoms, human rights, freedom of association and so many other things, freedom and independence of the media and indeed there is a whole chapter on media freedom. “Unfortunately, even when you have the best constitution you can have governments that try to bend it to be able to achieve whatever ends they have in terms of limiting our democratic rights. So today government can say that a radio station has delayed in paying its license fee and so we are shutting you down. “When I talk about it I talk about it because of the precedence it can set .Because the shoe can be on the other foot the next day, they say the stick that is used to beat Takyi, it is the same stick they will use to be Baah. So the stations you don’t like you can close them down today, when another government comes and it decides to do the same thing to the stations they don’t like too, what kind of country will we be building?”The National Communications Authority (NCA), the broadcasting and telecommunication frequency regulator in Ghana, shut down Radio Gold and Radio XYZ, both based in Accra and aligned to the main opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC). A statement issued by the NCA in Accra on May 9, 2019, said the closures were carried out in line with Regulations 65 (1) of the Electronic Communications Regulations, 2011, L. I. 1991, which states that “A person shall not use a radio frequency without authorization from the Authority.” Referring to a 2018 ruling by the Electronic Communications Tribunal on the status of FM stations with expired authorization, the NCA said “Companies whose authorizations had expired reverted to the same position as a fresh applicant,” adding that “these applications shall go through the required procedure for new FM Broadcasting Authorization.” The regulator did not mention the two stations, implying that it was a general exercise. However, only Radio XYZ and Radio Gold have been closed so far. Officials of the NCA, backed by armed police officers, stormed the premises of the radio stations to enforce the shutdown in the afternoon of May 9. This is the second time in less than two years that the regulator has flexed its muscles against “defaulting stations.” Former President Mahama stressed In September 2017, the NCA carried out a massive purge of the broadcasting industry that saw a total of 34 radio and television stations being shut down for various infractions, in the enforcement of Section 13 of the Electronics Communications Act (2009), Act 775. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093

Politics

The E-blocks standing, they are a disgrace to our national reputation John Mahama to UER-House of Chiefs

The former President John Dramani Mahama has pleaded with the Upper East Regional House of Chiefs to inform President Akufo-Addo that the E-blocks standing untouched across the region since the NPP administration, has become a disgrace to Ghana’s reputation The former President who was on a ‘THANK YOU TOUR’ to appreciate the people of the Upper East Region for their wonderful support during the 2020 general election made the plea to the Upper East Regional House of Chiefs on Tuesday, August 17, 2021. “Governance is supposed to be a continuum and so when a government takes over from the other, it continuous what the previous government was doing. When I came into office, as best as I could the projects that we had inherited from the preceding government we tried to continue them”. Some we concluded, others we move to another level so that another government will come and continue and so I will urge that you continue to urge on this president that the E-blocks that are standing, they are a disgrace to our national reputation. “You are the moral voices of our society. You should continue to draw government’s attention to taxpayer’s money that is being wasted by the numerous abandoned projects that we have in your traditional areas”. “Because, as I have said before it is not my Education Minister who was my running mate in 2020 Naana Opoku Agyeman who financed them out of her pocket, or it wasn’t me who financed that project from my pocket it was the taxpayer’s money, your money and my money that we used to put up this blocks” However, the President of the Upper East Regional House of Chiefs Pe Dituudini Adiana Ayagitam III who doubles as the paramount chief for the Chiana Traditional Area during his speech described the former President as an ‘epitome’ of peace especially with his posture of calming down growing tensions across the country after the result declaration and during the 2020 election petition. The Upper East Regional House of Chiefs was grateful for the appreciation shown by the former President John Dramani Mahama especially by choosing Upper East Region first as he embarked on his Thank You Tour journey across other regions Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093

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Agenda 111: Prioritize making Wa hospital & others fully operational- JM to Akufo-Addo

“John Manama is pretty good at awarding contracts but had no clue how to pay for them–Gabby

I’ve reduced Mahama’s 15% inflation to 7.9%, fixed his ‘unbalanced’, ‘tipping point’ economy – Akufo-Addo

Martin Amidu didn’t get the kind of cooperation he needed to work – Mahama

You have set a bad precedence, remember the table will turn one day – John Mahama to Akufo-Addo

The E-blocks standing, they are a disgrace to our national reputation John Mahama to UER-House of Chiefs

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