Gloomy clouds of corruption getting darker under Akufo-Addo – Manasseh Azure

The gloomy clouds of corruption, hopelessness and hardship that took over the skies of Ghana in 2016 are getting even darker under the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo-led New Patriotic Party (NPP) government, Manasseh Azure Awuni has observed.

According to the outspoken award winning investigative journalist, just like many concerned Ghanaians, he is seeing no improvement in the country, particularly in the fight against corruption after the NPP took over power from the “failed” NDC government.

This, he said, is obviously so because President Akufo-Addo and his government have failed to “concentrate on how to move the nation forward” and is rather playing a blame game with affairs of the country.

Manasseh Azure Awuni’s comments come on the back of an attack launched on former President John Mahama by Gabby Otchere-Darko for criticising the NPP government.

Mr. Otchere-Darko in a Facebook post, told the former President to “shush” as government attempts to manage the ‘crisis’ his administration left the economy in after Mahama criticized the government over speculations there may be an increase in Value Added Tax (VAT) and National Health Insurance Levy (NHIL), in the Mid-Year Budget Review.

“Certainly, the reckless way the NDC ran down the economy in 8yrs (lest we forget), called for creative and intelligent measures to satisfy three things: manage the debt crisis; keep the state machinery running and; deliver on your own promises. The Akufo-Addo government found a way in 2017, and will continue to find ways that will keep faith with the people of Ghana.

Be in no doubt. And, please, can somebody out there tell John Mahama to shush! It is not his fault, though. The NPP has been kind to him on the havoc he caused to the economy,” Gabby wrote on Facebook in response to Mahama’s; “The Ghanaian business sector has never experienced such difficult times in the history of the 4th Republic. Akufo-Addo’s proposed new taxes would cripple businesses further and also defeat his much-touted mantra of “from taxation to production,” tweet.

However, Manasseh Azure seems to believe Gabby’s response was unnecessary, especially at a time Ghanaians are still struggling to see a difference in Akufo-Addo’s performance.

He advised the key players to “leave John Mahama alone and use the effort you and your people spend in reminding us about his flaws to help Nana Akufo-Addo and his team to save this nation”.

He described as “annoying and irritating” the NPP government’s increasing blames of Mahama’s administration for the woes of the country saying, “All the independent-minded people I know, who had very high hopes in Candidate Akufo-Addo in 2016, now sing a unanimous chorus: “We thought he would be different.”

Source: ghanaweb