JUST BLAME MAHAMA

Is President Mahama imbibing too much confidences in the Ghanaian youths?

By Ekow Mensah

I was in the house of my in-laws and Kojo Afful was being his usual stubborn self.  He also did as he pleased and refused counsel from his parents and elders.

To my shock, Auntie Mansa just blurted out “it is not Kojo’s fault. It is President Mahama who has made it impossible for us to control our children.

I could not believe what I was hearing. What could be the connection between the Presidency of John Mahama and Kojo’s stubbornness which predates the Mahama presidency?

I asked my aunt to explain and she did.

“It is John Mahama who is making young people Ministers and creating the impression that young people can also be leaders and achievers. Young people have become so proud under Mahama that we cannot control them anymore.”

I was stunned knowing that in the Nkrumah Government there were many Ministers who were in their twenties and early thirties. In the Busia Government, Mr J.A. Kufuor who was then in his late twenties served as a Minister and under the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) most of the Ministers were in their twenties and thirties.

The point is that President Mahama is not the only or the first President to have appointed young people to Ministerial positions.

However, the truth is that President Mahama is being blamed for everything negative which happens in Ghana. He gets blamed for divorce; for the death of the elderly; for the DKM scam; for too much rain or sunshine; for the sins of all NDC Members and for all the problems in the opposition parties.

Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, Presidential Candidate of the PPP

Last Monday, the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP) poured more blame on President John Dramani Mahama.

This time he is being accused of orchestrating an invitation to Dr Kwesi Nduom, Presidential Candidate of the PPP by the Economic and Organised Crime Organisation (EOCO) to explain the source of some party funds.

According to PPP spokespersons this invitation to their leader must most definitely be blamed on President Mahama.

They don’t provide a shred of evidence and there is no cogent logical analysis.

John Dramani Mahama must be blamed for the sins of EOCO simple and short.

Poor John Mahama, he may soon be blamed for the defeat of Asante in the Yaa Asantewaa War.

Editorial

WE DISAGREE

The Insight firmly disagrees with the decision of the Economic And Organised Crime Organisation (EOCO) to investigate the sources of funding of the Progressive Peoples  Party (PPP) and the All Peoples Congress (ACP).

This is because no special case has been made against the two political parties.

PPP is not the only party which paid the filling fees of its presidential and parliamentary candidates in full and the ACP cannot be the only political party which has spent in excess of US $6 million on its campaign.

If these are sufficient basis for the investigation of sources of funds of political parties, then the EOCO has a lot of work to do.

 It must investigate all the political parties and their leaders.

 We strongly suggest that the EOCO should abandon this path to nowhere.