The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has said it will stop at nothing in ensuring that President John Mahama is brought to book as far as his acceptance of a car gift is concerned, as it accuses the president of adopting diversionary communication tactics to swerve the controversial scandal.
At a breakfast meeting with the clergy at the Flagstaff House on Thursday June 23, Mr Mahama clarified issues surrounding his decision to accept the car as a ‘gift’, from a Burkinabe contractor, saying he even disliked American cars.
But, speaking to Class News, Policy Advisor for the PPP, Mr Kofi Asamoah-Siaw, insisted the president had misconducted himself and needed to be corrected.
“In the conduct where the president of Ghana has gone to take a gift as they will want us to believe, coming from somebody, who has business and contractual obligations with the government of Ghana, and the gift went to the number one gentleman of the land, His Excellency President John Dramani Mahama, that act from that person constitutes a conflict-of-interest position and that violates Article 284 of the 1992 constitution,” he stated.
“This approach of defending everything indefensible is not good for Ghana’s democracy. We in the PPP will stop at nothing to make sure that this matter is corrected so that it doesn’t become another episode in many issues of infractions that happens and are committed by senior public servants. We are worried that in this particular instance, the one entrusted with the power to correct everybody else finds himself in that and it is unpardonable. So he can’t go on that line to say that he doesn’t use American cars, he likes Japanese cars, all those ones don’t matter.
“He is just using communication skills to wash away the matter and those of us, who know and understand his skill and what he can do with language and leave the substantive matter untouched, we have the responsibility in Article 41 to expose what is going on. The president can do better than what he is doing.”
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com/100.5FM
