Former President John Dramani Mahama is urging the Akufo-Addo government not to run away from the views it championed on loans during its recent days in opposition.
He said, in opposition, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) made it look like borrowing was evil, and that they could administer the country without borrowing money.
But after coming into office, the former President noted that the NPP is not only running away from all they said about borrowing but they are also denying their own quotations on the issue.
Addressing NDC delegates at Dodowa in the Shai Osu-Doku constituency of the Greater Accra Region on Thursday, Mr Mahama singled out Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia for saying that “borrowing is a lazy man’s way of development”, and that as a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank he knew Ghana is not constrained by money because “the money is here”.
Former President Mahama is therefore asking the Akufo-Addo government to eat a humble pie and apologise to Ghanaians for doing the reverse of what its position was on financing government programmes through loans, especially as it borrowed about 40 billion Ghana Cedis in its first 18 months in government.
Mr Mahama said the NDC borrowed to develop social infrastructure across the country,
including building hospitals, roads, schools, expanding electricity and water, among others, adding that same cannot be said of the NPP.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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Incompetently Inconsistent.... hahahahaaaa!! this JDM man said govt had borrowed 50 million and now it has reduced to 40 million. Which is which, JDM? We we say you are incompetent, you get mad and use abusive language on us. You said you borrowed money to build infrastructure, why are people complaining about bad roads something you loudly touted in your Green Book? If you borrowed that much and we still have bad roads then you have proven to us that you are really incompetent and for that matter corruptly incompetent.
Mahama, for once kindly compare your ECONOMIC INDICATORS with the NPP gov't so we can tell who performed or is performing well economically. NDC behaves like students who are not interested in exams. Tribalism, hatred, ignorance, illiteracy and self interest is what keeps the NDC surviving as a political party. No neutral right-thinking person will fall for the NDC
We are paying this INCOMPETENT man with our tax monies as ex-president even after messing up our economy so badly. Instead of sitting quietly and enjoying his money he is going round with alcohol (in flask), getting boozed and spewing ru*b*b*ish. Such an irritant!
Mahama, did your infrastructures rise up the very day you borrowed the moneys. Till date you claim your projects have been abandoned meaning you couldn't complete them during your term. Yet in less than two years you want to see Akufo Addo projects. Don't you think NADAA has to complete your uncompleted projects before initiating new ones. Your supporters as usual will be praising you but you really have to re-strategise
So after borrowing to build the infrastructure why didn't you pay the contractors but rather asking Akufo Addo to pay them. Also, the ongoing projects you claim this gov't has abandoned, have you paid fully for them already with your borrowed money? You are worse in all the accusations you through at the NPP so why will Ghanaians return you into power
This man is getting on my nerves. If you have made enough money go sit somewhere wae and stop disturbing us ohh people are in power for less than 2 years and you had 8 years you are comparing? please please
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaloook JM what at all do you want. Another term for what Aba. JDM ANIBREBRE JDM
hi to all ghana people, john mahama is parabulatng and galavanting ,wasting his time, he is a shame for destroying ghana,. no ghana person should vote for him what did he do when he came through the window, he destroyed ghana, we dont want old cassava, we are moving forward, all ghana people must go and collect mahama monies and chop for free, it is ur monies that n,d,c executives have looted, let n,d,c stay in opposition for million years and see the suffering all ghana people went through, n,d,c want to come and cover their crime, their hungry in opposition and want to come and looted again, fiafitors, from ghana people