Former president John Dramani Mahama has given notice to all Akufo-Addo administration officials that they will be held responsible for their acts when the National Democratic Congress (NDC) wins this year’s elections.
According to the NDC flagbearer, the current government officials will account for the misappropriation of state funds.
Addressing a gathering in the North East as part of his building Ghana tour on Tuesday, April 16, Mr Mahama noted that although the next NDC government will not witch hunt anyone, persons who have misappropriated state monies will be made to account for it. MUST account for it.
“We are not going to witch hunt anybody, but if you have messed up the life of the people of Ghana and you have misappropriated their monies, you MUST account for it,” he said.
Mr Mahama further dared the Akufo-Addo administration to show him and Ghanaians the projects that have been undertaken from the loans contracted..
The NDC flagbearer further charged that the NDC government was mortgaging the young of Ghana by taking out loans that would later balloon into debt.
He pointed out that the country’s youth will be the ones to settle those loans, not President Akufo-Addo and his cabinet.
“In 2016 if we divided the debt, if we all decided that we were going to pack our bags and leave Ghana and so let us share the debt and everybody should pay his and then we will go. If we divided the debt, all of us would have paid 4000 Cedis.
“Today, if we say we are going to divide the debts, all of us are given Ghana up, we will pay our debts and go, and so we are going to share the debt for everybody to pay, every one of you here owes 20,000 Cedis.
“The point is even, the errubond alone, in six years the president’s cousin, the Finance Minister borrowed 13.5 billion Dollars and if we had seen highways, bridges, regional hospitals, universities, schools, water, electricity, we would say that money was well spent. but after after 13.5 billion Cedis, just show me in the North East here, what transformation has happened in the North East here over the last seven and a half years.
“And so you just can’t understand and that is why I am saying they have mortgaged your future because that money, it is not them who will are going to pay it, people are celebrating their 80th birthday and Ghana is and Ghana is owning 650 billion, you think they are going to pay the 650 billion? Who is going to pay? You those sitting here, you the young people, that debt they had left is a debt for you to come and pay,” Mahama added.
Ghana | Atinkaonline.com | Vivian Adu
