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Head of Monitoring Unit at the Forestry Commission, Charles Owusu has slammed former President and NDC flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama over his death wish for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. 

A viral video surfaced with Mr. John Mahama asking Ghanaians not to entrust the future of the country into the hands of Nana Akufo-Addo again stressing it is highly probable that the President won't live long enough to remit the debts he is piling up for the nation.

He urged Ghanaians to demand accountability from the government over how it expended its borrowed monies, claiming the Akufo-Addo government, in its first term, has added a whopping GHC 137bn to the country’s debt stock. 

“...if we follow the order of life, the path ahead of Akufo-Addo is shorter than all of you, young people. If you go to the market, you’ll see a small goatskin and an old goatskin. Young people can die; I agree, but if the natural order is to be maintained, somebody who is twenty years old is going to live the next fifty years”.

“At my age, I’m going to live shorter, Nana Akufo-Addo is going to live shorter because at his age, in the natural order of things, he has shorter time so that debt, he is not going to pay'', Mr. Mahama said this while addressing Chiefs and elders of the Nadowli traditional council, a few days prior to the launch of the party's 2020 manifesto.

But Charles Owusu has rebuked Mr. Mahama for wishing death for the President.

Seaking on Peace FM's ''Kokrokoo'', he asked how he (Mahama) came to his conclusion about natural law being that elderly people die before younger persons.

He accentuated that Ex-President's death remarks about the Nana Addo are very inappropriate, stressing nobody knows the time he or she will pass away.

''We don't have the law of nature which tells that once you're elderly, you will die before a younger person...Nobody knows the time he or she will die'', he said.

Charles Owusu therefore admonished Mr. Mahama to choose his words carefully when delivering speeches.

''We should be mindful of our words when speaking. Like musician OJ once said, it's impossible to turn back the hand of time, therefore be very careful when you speak because words are irreversible.''