Despite controversies surrounding his request to keep his official bungalow as part of his retirement package, former President John Dramani Mahama’s conduct has been a credit to the nation, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said.
While expressing his gratitude to God for his electoral victory at the Accra Ridge Church on Sunday January 15, Mr Akufo-Addo also lauded Mr Mahama for his role in ensuring a peaceful transition.
He told the congregation: “Our thanks must also go to my predecessor President John Dramani Mahama, who followed in the worthy footsteps of his illustrious predecessors – President Jerry John Rawlings and President John Agyekum Kufuor – and supervised a peaceful transition of power. Despite all the controversies surrounding his settlement, his conduct has been a credit to our nation and we must all give thanks to the Lord for it.”
There has been controversy surrounding the settlement of Mr Mahama after he lost the December 7 election to Mr Akufo-Addo.
Per Ghana’s 1992 constitution, Mr Mahama was supposed to vacate his official bungalow at Cantonments in Accra a day before the investiture of Nana Akufo-Addo.
While the outgone government’s side of the transition team said it reached an agreement with the new president’s team to allow Mr Mahama to continue staying in the property, the new government said there was no such deal.
The leader of the new government’s side of the transition team, Yaw Osafo Marfo, told journalists: "We have not approved of his request, and I want to repeat we have received the request and the requests are two – for him to be given as his ex-gratia where he lives and also be given another property as his office."
Mr Mahama’s critics said his earlier quest to keep the property was unlawful. Mr Mahama later withdrew his request to have the property as his ex gratia.
Source: classfm
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I think you need to go back to school. I assume you wanted me to say asante king because asante is a kingdom. Let me teach you a bit. There so many subchiefs under asantehene, so whether you wanted me to refer to him as king or whatever, paramount chief title is the highest title any king or chief of tribe can be accorded, therefore go away with your forking critism.
@lagos haaaaaaaaa oo I pity you. How can you survive with this kind of anger. omg! Such a pathetic figure calling himself a Ghanaian. People ignore mahama and his greedy nature oo. we will not give anything he can go to hell. Shaammeless ndc what did they give to Kuffour after 8 years. Mahama thinks he is smart by taking his share before Kuffour. He can go to bole bamboi nonnsensee
***barred word*** anta, Asantehene is not a paramount chief of Ashanti. There is no such person as a paramount chief of Ashanti. There could be a paramount in the Ashanti Region. A number of paramount chiefs, both in and outside the Ashanti Region, are under the King's rule. I forgive you for spouting your ***barred word*** here.
@ ANTA,,, I PRESUME YOU STUDIED THIS 1.D.1.OT.E THEY CALL A PRESIDENT.... HE IS THE PERSONIFICATION OF THE WORD SATAN..... I SUPPOSED AFTER LYING HIS WAY TO POWER,,, HE WOULD HAVE MEND HIS WAYS AND WALK THE STRAIGHT PATH WITH GHANAIANS. BUT HE STILL THINKS THE PEOPLE ARE PHULLS... MOST PROBABLY THOSE WHO VOTED FOR HIM.... NOT ALL THE PEOPLE THOUGH.... SOMETIMES WHEN YOU HEAR HIM MAKES CERTAIN COMMENTS, ONE WOULD HAVE WISHED HE DROP DEAD,,,, BUT WISHES ARE NOT HORSES FOR BEGGERS TO RIDE.... SO LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE.... BUT ONE NOTICEABLE THING HERE IS THAT,,, HE MASTERFULLY FIT INTO THE WORDS OF THE PROPHET DANIEL WHEN HE SAID THIS... AS I QUOTE... ON THE WINGS OF ABOMINATION,,, COMES THE ONE THAT MAKES DESOLATE.... AS CHRIST HIMSELF REPHRASED IT AS THUS.... WHEN YOU SEE THE ABOMINATION OF THE DESOLATION STANDING IN THE HOLY PLACE,,,,,, SO WHAT KIND OF CHURCH WILL GRANT ITS PULPIT TO SATAN,,, FOR THIS SACRILIGEOUS ACT?????? IF NOT A DENOMINATIONAL CHURCH.... WHICH IS DESCRIBED IN THE BIBLE AS MYSTERY BABYLON....
HE HAS JUST ADMITTED THAT HE AGREED BUT DID NOT FULFILL HIS PROMISE. I HOPE HE DOES NOT DO THE SAME WITH HIS PROMISES TO GHANAIANS. PLEASE PRESIDENT AKUFO-ADDO DON'T FAIL GHANAIANS.
If you read carefully the words of the Prez Akufo Addo,on Maham's bungalow saga, you can see that he is being polite in persuading the nation to minimize the descrediting behavior by Mahama.
Ei!Ei! So the NDC which was founded out of PNDC, that sacrificed people in the name of probity and accountability is able to justify the act of Mahama on the bungalow issue?
Nana addo should had been bold to tell both Asantehene and Mahama that he needed to discuss it with his people and would come back to them. That would have made Mahama vacate the bungalow ahead of time. But to accept their request and later change your mind doesn't show someone who is firm. Right now the asantehene cannot trust you for anything you say.
@anta wen it is wrong it is wrong When akufo addo finishes and says he wants d presidential palace will u give it to him? Let a spade b a spade When the constitution says dis and u say DAT should we take u serious for ur word. And again paramount chief is not GOD who can change rules.
This is how disloyal people talk. After agreeing to let him stay in the bungalow and takes a U turn, you come and say this, to look good. If you accept a suggestion in the presence of a paramount chief of Ashanti and disrespect him by a U turn, why do you come back to praise a person you have already betrayed.