Source : Fuvi Kloku
Rumor has it that Dr. Mamudu Bawumia has privately confessed to close friends and senior aides that, given the numerous falsehoods he’s told Ghanaians, there’s no way he could win the presidential elections on December 7, 2024. He questioned how anyone in their right mind could vote for him after the following:
Major Falsehoods:
- During a lecture at Central University College on March 25, 2015, Bawumia falsely claimed that the African Development Bank (AfDB) had suspended Ghana the previous month and that the suspension was still in effect. The AfDB denied this claim later that same day.
- On August 18, 2015, at a press conference at the Alisa Hotel, he asserted that he had evidence of 760,000 foreigners from Togo, Côte d’Ivoire, and Burkina Faso on the Ghanaian voters’ register. He claimed to have presented only 10% of the evidence and promised that the NPP would release the remaining 90% in due course. However, months later, he failed to produce the remaining evidence, and it turned out that even the initial 10% was fabricated. The NPP also informed the Electoral Commission that they were no longer willing to submit the remaining evidence.
- In November 2015, Bawumia again falsely stated that the NDC government had borrowed $37 billion in seven years. When this lie and its illogical implications were exposed, he quickly changed his stance, claiming he was referring to the “value” of the borrowed money, despite the fact that debt has never been calculated in the manner he attempted.
- On May 6, 2016, VP Bawumia falsely claimed that the government had diverted $250 million from the 2015 Eurobond issue into a private account operated by a private bank. This claim was also proven to be false.
Broken Promises:
- When will Dr. Bawumia deliver the $18 billion Chinese loan he promised?
- When will he draw down on the $2 billion Sinohydro loan?
- What happened to the promise that “No village in Ghana will have a challenge with toilet and water provision within 2 years of an NPP government”?
- What about the promise that “Every Ghanaian will have a bank account by the end of 2018”?
- The cedi was supposedly “arrested” and the keys given to the IGP, yet the free fall of the cedi continues.
- The promise to provide incentives for private sector participation in health service delivery remains unfulfilled.
- Implementing policies to reduce the cost of doing business has been a hoax.
- The pledge to provide a reliable and cost-effective mix of energy supply for businesses seems to have been forgotten.
- Pursuing aggressive industrialization and value addition to agricultural produce has not materialized.
- The much-touted allocation of $1 million annually per constituency has proven to be a bitter fallacy.
- The promise to develop interconnected roads, railways, ports, and harbor systems remains a pipe dream.
- The Water For All Programme has become another deception.
- Dr. Bawumia’s promise to construct 570 dams in 2017 adds to his list of empty rhetoric.
- Reducing the corporate tax rate from 25% to 20% has not been realized.
- The pledge to provide incentives for the hospitality and creative arts industry to create jobs has been another fiasco.
- The promise to build hospitals in districts that lack them was forgotten until COVID-19 exposed the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia administration.
The list of broken promises and outright deception seems endless. One aide remarked that Ghanaians are like pregnant women—they complain about sex during labor but will seek it again right after childbirth.
Source : Fuvi Kloku
