Former President John Mahama has dared President Nana Akufo-Addo to exact punishment on his appointees just as he (Mahama) did when he was president.
Speaking to a crowd of National Democratic Congress members in Central Region after a Unity Walk, Mr Mahama berated the wisdom in forking out “GHS15 million” to local IT firm Vokacom for the development of a digital addressing application system which, according to him, already exists on mobile phones free of charge.
In Mr Mahama’s estimation, Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia who led the whole project, has brought embarrassment to President Akufo-Addo.
“…How can you launch a whopping GPS system that is freely available on our mobile phones and say it is the best national addressing system?” Mr Mahama wondered, adding: “It’s such a pity.”
“Why would you embarrass the president so much?” he said.
Prior to the launch of the application, Dr Bawumia has said: “It is more advanced than [those in] the United States or the United Kingdom or Germany because they are stuck to old technology and we are leap-frogging.”
“We are going to a new technology; we are going to GPS-based technology”, Dr. Bawumia said on Wednesday, 4 October when he delivered a lecture titled: Developing Stronger Economies for the African Continent: the Missing Link’ at the 3rdAdvancement Lecture Series 2017 organised by the Institutional Advancement Office of the University of Cape Coast.
The digital address system, he noted, has unique postcodes for every location in Ghana, adding that: “We have been able to put together 16.1 billion addresses: every five by five metres square apart in Ghana has a unique address.”
Mr Mahama, however, said President Akufo-Addo must hold somebody accountable for giving state funds away for something that already existed free of charge.
“… And when you talk about accountability, this is where the president should show that he is serious about corruption. Somebody must account for GHS15miliion given away free of charge.”
Contrasting the digital addressing application issue with the bus branding corruption saga that happened during his tenure of office, Mr Mahama said: “When I was in office, there was a bus branding incident, GHS3.6million, a minister of state resigned because of GHS3.6million. When you come into office and you want to cover up, you can cover up. When things happen you just refuse to investigate them.
“The toughness of the fight against corruption is that you are able to take action against your own people and that is what we did when we were in office. Here the NPP seems unable to take, the president seems unable to take self-action in anything,” Mr Mahama added.
Source: classfmonline.com
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Do what is right Nana. u the NPP's GHANA is not for your own.open your eyes GHANA and listen to Mahama
All those comments hitherto are saying nothing about The stolen money .Funs of NPP is it true There has been a stolen money?
Hoooooooo John Mahama u are a loser n will never be a president again. U, your wife, n your Bother are all ***barred word***'s. You have really made history by loosing heavily. Gyumiiiiiiiii
We are for the first reshuffle of President Nana Akkufo Addo. That would set the tone whether we are condoning corruption or hiding corruption.
Mahama how do you understand the word punished ? A lots of corruptions went on at your time but i never witlessness any punishment, are the people you punished still in jail ?
I really dont understand these people do they think Ghana is part of their properties or what.the country gave you a chance and u proved yourself not fit for the position given to u so is it now dat someone else has been elected dat you'll go for unity walk,Mahama paaa,does he think Ghanaians are ***barred word*** or what,greedy bastards.I wonder when they'll grow up and start doing what is right,they should stop handling issues like children and grow up,smh,indeed grey hair doesn't how ones maturity.
Reeeeaaaaallllllyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Virtue is truly a scarce commodity! No further comments. Have a great day guys
Reading most of the comments its jux clear the NPP guys are really blind and are refusing to say the truth...hypocrites and pretender's.... Masa the money spent is 419...how much did Uber spend in their google mapping...masa dem dey steal us u say we for not talk...mtchewwwwwwww
Who did you punish, you were more corruptttt than those you claimed to have punished, Massa Massa, don't bring yourself
When at all will the NDC stop using criticism as their campaign and campaign on what they have for Ghanaians? Criticism is not what Ghanaians want, they want policies that will benefit their lives.