Open Letter To John Mahama | Features

Although you're dealing with political turbulence in your bid to return to energy, you'll hopefully be heartened to know that the "dumsor economy" that you just left behind has comparatively been circled. Yes, our lights are on even underneath the prevailing post-pandemic world recession, because of President Akufo-Addo's resilience and know-how.

We might not be precisely the place all of us need Ghana to be however steadily, we're rising.

Respectfully, sir, your speech on the Ohene Konadu Auditorium, University of Professional Studies(UPSA) final evening had all the appearance of CBeebies Bedtime Stories and a straightforward appeal of a sedated prepare operator gearing up for his three hundredth supply of the epigram.
It was all the identical jaded, drained and frail Mahama on show. Nothing new, nothing attention-grabbing. New wine in an outdated bottle. That's the decision of most right-thinking Ghanaians.

Even the NDC propagandists honking about how supremely delicate you're might need to resolve how actual they like their realpolitik.

Like me, you will have learn a fairly mind-boggling load of bollocks about new dawns and second possibilities, however you do need to set it in opposition to the truth that as president, you have been woefully insufficient and handicapped on the job.

Yes Mr ex-President, your earlier follow of appending your signature to reckless government spending led to the accusation that you just have been too amateurish.

Those days are actually up to now. I do not ask for lots – it saves time – however I do like politicians who look convincingly in a position to exit their entrance door in a single take. This is why we have to set a number of information straight right here.

We all noticed your actual output and efficiency when a number of crises piled up on all fronts even because the nation slide deeper into the "Dumsor economy."

Indeed, we witnessed pure chaos, which demonstrably and measurably brought on your downfall.

From the healthcare-associated issues to the financial scenario, to the power points and discontent on the labor entrance, you have been discovered wanting on all fronts.

It often looks like you're dwelling in an alternate universe given the chaos that engulfed your presidency and brought on your downfall in 2016.

For all of your often coy language, one factor is abundantly clear: you are incompetent even along with your contradictory messages. You spoke eloquently about the truth that our present difficulties can't be blamed on the Covid-19 pandemic, and but not way back on the twenty fourth Africa Business Conference in Havard Business School on twenty third April 2022, you blamed the pandemic for Africa's woes.

These are your phrases, Mr ex-President:

"Data from the economic commission of Africa, ECA shows that Covid-19 created the continent's worst recession in 50 years with real GDP shrinking by an average of 3% in 2020. Before the pandemic, poverty reduction was already a major challenge"

Again:

"Like governments all over the world, it became necessary for African governments to take action to shield their population from the effects of the pandemic. This meant in many cases an increase in deficits due to unbudgeted expenditures. This has devastated many African economies and sank them deeper into unsustainable debts and economic downturns. The pandemic has had a general deleterious effect on the economy of African nations."

It would, in fact, have been gratifying so that you can have been constant. But you are Mahama, and rightly so, a leopard by no means modifications its spot.

Although you additionally waxed lyrical in regards to the want for Ghanaians to not solely patronize Made-in-Ghana items however devour them in droves as a part of your options to coping with our challenges, you have been unaware that the material you wore on the evening occurs to be a international one.
Even your spouse, Lordina Mahama, was additionally dropped in imported clothes.

One would count on that for somebody determined to 'save' Ghana from its financial woes, you'd lead by instance by draping your self in regionally made garments. You and your spouse quite wore imported ones. Is this the choice you're providing?

In waffling away mechanically about our present financial challenges, you displayed a woeful ignorance of the info as everyone knows them.

Truth is, there's a basic recognition that President Akufo-Addo has proven nice resilience, provided that he efficiently guided Ghana via good occasions and nonetheless working the present in these tough occasions. Notwithstanding the doom and gloom retailers, the issues of the latest previous are been resolved satisfactorily, and an more and more brilliant future beckons. It is now clear that Akufo-Addo's insurance policies will proceed to form our fortunes within the years forward.

Away out of your UPSA bubble, it does seem to me that you desire to the world to consider you are the actual deal for Ghana, otherwise you stand for the nationwide good. It's all a giant joke. Your exaggerated opinion of your self and your significance will sink you once more.

There is far to be mentioned, however I'd quite you open your eyes to the happenings round you or higher nonetheless, clear the cobwebs off your eyes to see whilst you wrestle to have interaction in extreme negativity and obstructionism.

My paternal grandmother as soon as informed me that, I have to be cautious of marital recommendation from individuals who have been thrice divorced. Mahama has been at it together with his financial lectures and options to our issues since he was humiliated out of workplace. But then, the great individuals of Ghana are cautious of political and financial recommendation from a person who was voted out of workplace primarily based on incompetence, graft and mismanagement.

Mr ex-President, you might not totally understand it but, however you at the moment are yesterday man.

Let Ghana be.

Yours sincerely,

I Ernest Kofi Owusu Bempah Bonsu

Deputy Director of Communications, NPP

October 28, 2022