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“We won’t go to the Supreme Court again because we know we won’t get justice”, Mr John Dramani Mahama asserted.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) will monitor the general elections in 2024 so effectively, according to former president John Dramani Mahama, that the party won’t need to file a complaint with the Supreme Court, where he claims the NDC will be denied justice.
Speaking in Dzodze, Volta Region, during his “Building the Ghana We Want Tour,” Mr. Mahama stated that the NDC’s local watchfulness will guarantee the party’s unquestionable victory.
“I’m not going to the Supreme Court because I know I’m not going to lose”, Mr Mahama said, adding: “Maybe that person [loser] will be going to the Supreme Court.”
The NDC flagbearer said the “election is going to be decided at the polling station and the collation centre and that’s where the NDC is going to be.”
“We are going to police this election and it is going to be the best-policed election in the history of Ghana and we are going to follow the results every step of the way until the final result is declared”, Mr Mahama told the NDC supporters.
President Nana Akufo-Addo is allegedly plotting to leave Dumsor for his successor, according to former president John Mahama.
Due to a $19 million debt owed to the West African Pipeline Company (WAPCo), Ghana is currently experiencing irregular power supplies. According to Deputy Energy Minister Andrew Egyapa Mercer, the government has already paid $13 million of the debt and is in negotiations with WAPCo to work out a payment schedule for the remaining $6 million.
During his “Building Ghana Tour”, Mr. Mahama made the following remarks in Sogakope, in the Volta Region:
“Today ‘dumsor’, they’re treating it like a football because he wants to kick it over the 7th January 2025 line and hand the trouble over to somebody else, and yet we resolved it before they came into office.”
Mr Mahama also condemned the government’s decision to tax electricity consumers.
“Today, they’ve put Value Added Tax on electricity bills. And COVID levy, NHIL levy, GETFUND Levy all on electricity bills, and so that’s going to send the cost of your electricity bill up. Already, there was a 29 per cent increase, there was a 19 per cent increase, then they tried to fool us with a 4% increase, and now it’s going up again astronomically”, Mr Mahama decried.
“It’s making Ghana a very difficult place to do business. All business people are complaining. The owner of this hotel who has given us this resort to do this thing, you should ask him how much he’s paying in utility bills. And yet, because of the mismanagement by the President and his cousin and his Vice President, it has plunged all of us into a difficult situation where they have pledged to the IMF [International Monetary Fund] to raise as much revenue as they ca,” the former president noted.
“And the point is, while you are raising revenue reduce your expenditure because that’s what any sane reasonable person does. Because if you reduce your expenditure, you can ease the burden that you’re putting on the taxpayer”, he highlighted.
Source:Ghanatodayonline.com
