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Mahama should focus on accounting for monies borrowed - Group

Speaking at a press briefing today [Thursday], the group’s Spokesperson and Deputy Communications Director of the opposition New Patriotic Party, Anthony Karbo, said the president should focus on addressing the economic challenges Ghanaians are currently facing.
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Pro-opposition pressure group, ‘The Truth Forum’, has raised concerns about the basis of President Mahama’s ‘Accounting to the people tour’, considering what the group calls the presidents inability to render financial accounts for the projects he has highlighted so far.

“What has happened to all the resources that have come into this country in the last seven years? Have they been used in our collective interest? Records show that Ghana’s debt at the end of 2015 stood at some GHc111 billion; judging from the fact that the NDC inherited a debt stock of GHc 9.5billion in 2009, this means a colossal of GHc101.5 billion has been added to our debt stock in the last seven years.

“The question therefore remains to be answered; why is the President accounting for project which in total cost is less than GHc30 billion when he has taken so much in borrowing. Where is the remaining GHc70 billion? Don’t also forget that the projects undertaken with the GHc30 billion were mostly overpriced and ridiculously sole-sourced which has become a major vehicle for corruption under this government,” he added.

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President John Dramani Mahama has recently justified his 'Accounting to the people tour' describing it as just a tour of the country to update Ghanaians on the projects and programmes his administration has so far embarked on.

This is contrary to claims by critics, including the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), that the tour is part of his campaign processes to deceive Ghanaians and abuse his incumbency.

“It is prudent for me as the president, to update Ghanaians about projects and programmes this government has undertaken in the last three years.“If you had been watching TV or listening to radio you would have heard that I went to the Western Region and from there I came to the Eastern Region and what I am doing is called accounting to the people tour to render account of what I have done to the people,” the president explained.

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