Former Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance (NHIA), Sylvester Mensah, has said that he will be better than John Dramani Mahama if he is given the chance to lead the country.
While stating that the former President’s administration “did their best” while in office, he insisted that he would be able to take the country further than Mahama did.
A number of persons, including the Member of Parliament for Nadowli-Kaleo, Alban Bagbin, Ekow Spio Garbrah, and former Rector of the University of Professional Studies Prof Joshua Alabi have hinted of their desire to lead the National Democratic Congress (NDC)’s into the 2020 elections.
Despite not actually confirming it, John Mahama has given strong hints that he may try to recapture the Presidency he lost in 2016. Speaking on Eyewitness News on Wednesday, Sylvester Mensah also admitted that he was considering contesting for the position, adding that “consultations are ongoing” with his advisers on the matter.
When asked whether he believes he will do better than John Mahama if elected, Sylvester Mensah responded: “Of course, I believe strongly about that. I have competence and capacity that can move this country faster than any of the current hopefuls. I have ability and what it takes to move this country faster than any other.”
“The previous [President] could have done a very good job, but at the end of the day, you want to find out whether there is someone who could have done better. And doing better doesn’t necessarily define the other person’s performance as bad.”
‘Nothing was proven’
Questions have been raised about the suitability of Sylvester Mensah to contest for NDC’s internal primaries let alone the Presidency, following the circumstances that surrounded his exit from the NHIA. However he brushed these concerns aside, stating that he had not been found guilty of any wrongdoing in the matter.
“Just being investigated is not enough. Anybody can be investigated. There appears to be some impression about a few things. I was never arrested, I was never detained and I was never interdicted,” he said.
“I was called upon to respond to some uncertainty and I provided clarity and it all ended. At the end of the day, I had a formal letter to the effect that I had been exonerated and that they had been no adverse findings… I was never sacked from the NHIA, I was reassigned to the Presidency.”
Source: citifmonline.com
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Go Sly go. you are our hope for years to come. Go Sly go. you are the best among all. Go Sly go. you represent hope for the youth. Go ooooh go
the worse ndc can do to a cr1m1nal who has a strong share in the party is to reassign him/her to a different position to continue stealing. but if you dont mean too much to them then they ask you to resign. the day of judgement is coming. that is when we will know whether you did something wrong or not. only time will tell.
You did not do anything when you were MP and CEO NHIS, now you better than someone? BS politicians.!!!!!
U better save ur kickbacks and enjoy it with ur family.
What did you do with NHIA and how can we entrust the whole of REPUBLIC OF GHANA to your credentials as the way you did make NHIA ***barred word*** and with all technology around how much did you bring to that national institution . GHANA is approaching 30,000,000 and less that 15,000,000 NHIS you failed comfortably. Presidency is not jokers GI and build your credentials and come 15 years later.
***barred word***!!! You think the presidency is for grossly incompetent handsome faced boys? you sent the NHIS into comatose and you want to do same to Ghana? first build your profile by excelling in a hitherto ***barred word*** institution the we can consider you. Mahama seg no see top
The Presdency of Mahama and for that matter his Leadership is in no form a yardstick neither is it in any form in terms of Statemanship, intergrity to draw any Aspiration from let alone set to perform better than. In other words, his Performance was abysmal.Therefore, there is nothing better Ghanaians can epect from Mr.S. Mensah.
***barred word***!!Nana and Bawumia made the noise than you and now they are found wanting. What makes you think you can manage Ghana better than Mahama? Don't be proud and arrogant.
Massa; 'makeyou keep your backside shut' what makes you think you can manage Ghana better than that northner donkey and a stiller Jon Mahama besides are you not a member of the NDC party a party full of kreminal jaguar jokers and stillers ; for a start you do not have the cash because in todays Ghana money 'TALKS' ; Jon Mahama has created millions of dollars and likely to use it for his campaign ; hove you got a million dollars to spare besides merely acquiring toilet paer qualifications does not make you fit person to manage Ghana ; because managing a country like Ghana with indicipline species is NOT A JOKE !!!!!!!
You were not able to manage the small NHIS when you were the boss..... I cannot trust you managing the whole country better. Comparing yourself to the incompetent John Ford Mahama that you will be better than him shows that you are not fit to run our country.