President John Dramani Mahama is promoting deception into statecraft. In Mahama’s Ghana, there is more propaganda than the reality on the ground. On the commissioning of the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange, the President beat his chest and unashamedly announced that he had brought Dubai to Ghana.
The Dubai the President has been trumpeting is the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange, which, at US$78 million, is alleged to have been overblown in cost. How one interchange could translate into Dubai tells a lot about the thinking behind state power in this 21st Century.
That is not the only reason why many Ghanaians are uncomfortable with presidential pronouncements on so-called development projects under Mr. Mahama’s watch. Barely one week after the Dubai declaration, the Head of State mounted the podium in the Upper West Regional Ccapital and told his bewildered listeners that he had provided more infrastructure in this run-down society than what obtains in much-advanced United States of America.
One needs not visit Uncle Sam to appreciate the white lie in the proclamation. The interesting development in the jigsaw is that apparently, the people of Ghana are unable to appreciate the President’s monumental infrastructural development. He has to bring in a Nigerian actor to tell the people of Ghana what we are all supposed to see on the ground.
Through Nigerian journalist and failed politician Dele Momodu, Editor of the Ovation Magazine, and President Mahama’s Chief Propagandist, and beneficiary of a number of state largesse, President Mahama has brought in Nigerian actor Nkem Owoh, known on the screen as Osuofia, to tell Ghanaians what we are supposed to see on the ground.
In other words, our eyes do not see and appreciate the wonderful things the President has done for us. Apparently ungrateful and lacking in appreciation, the people of Ghana have been paying for our sins by being subjected to bombardments from people who have been commissioned to whip our perceptions into line.
In one of the President’s campaign advertisements, the Nollywood actor is seen arriving at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra and totally amazed at the transformation of the nation’s main international airport.
What the actor fails to tell the people of Ghana is that even in its run-down state, the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos is more elegant than the pin-sized Kotoka International Airport.
Money swine! That is epitomised by the way money is going down the drain in the name of an election campaign being waged by President Mahama. The President would not spare anything in his endeavour to spend his way to power. This President is prepared to spend on any venture if that would promote his cause.
At the same time that the President is doting on foreigners, our newly-qualified teachers and nurses have not been paid for two years. And the Head of State says he is running a caring administration.
With two more weeks to the elections, The Chronicle takes this opportunity to invite Ghanaians to be mindful of how and for whom we all cast our votes.
For all this while, Mr. John Dramani Mahama has supervised over poor health care delivery, very expensive borrowing, collapse of social interventionists policies bequeathed to him by his predecessor, and very expensive means of doing business.
The result is that the average Ghanaian is unable to eke out any meaningful existence, while cronyism has been promoted into statecraft.
The Chronicle believes the President has failed big time and should be shown the exit. Mr. Mahama does not deserve the vote!
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