Bawumia gives true state of the nation under Mahama administration

The 2016 vice Presidential candidate of the opposition NPP Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has maintained that President Mahama’s dislike of the incompetent tag is an admission that he is corrupt.

He said the NPP has not only said that President Mahama is incompetent but also corrupt and was therefore surprised the president didn't express similar anger at the labeling of his government as corrupt

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia,, is convinced President Mahama’s silence on corruption allegations against his government is an acceptance of guilt.

President Mahama in his Changing Lives Tour, singled out Dr Bawumia and attacked him for criticizing his administration as incompetent, saying Dr Bawumia and l the other guys who accuse him of incompetence have never ever come near the Presidency before and don’t even know what it means to be President and therefore have locus to stand and say ‘incompetent Mahama administration’.

At a press conference Wednesday to respond to the 2016 budget presented to Parliament by the Finance Minister, Dr. Bawumia reminded the president that corruption has been one of the things the NPP has consistently accused his government of.

The former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana noted that Mr. Mahama being upset about his administration being described as incompetent whilst ignoring the corruption means he has accepted that his government is corrupt.

“This is an acceptance that he [president Mahama] has lost the fight against corruption,” Bawumia taunted.

He indicated that the ranking of Ghana as the second most corrupt country in Africa by Transparency International in its latest report is a confirmation that corruption is out of hand.

“Mahama has created a toxic mixture of incompetence and corruption. This has resulted in an explosion of suffering across the country,” he stated.

The NPP running mate listed a litany of challenges facing the country as a result of what he said is poor governance under Mahama, and reiterated calls for the rejection of the NDC in the 2016 elections.

Dr Bawumia among other things he enumerated, said In 2015, interest payment amounted to more than GH¢9.6 billion. That figure was more than the total debt stock of GH¢9.5 billion in 2008 at the end of President Kufuor’s term for which debt stock both President Mills and John Mahama lampooned the NPP government.

To put the interest payments on the debt in context, we should note that the entire allocations in the 2016 budget to the Ministries of Roads and Highways, Trade and Industry, Food and Agriculture, Water Resources, Works and Housing, Youth and Sports, and Ministry of Transport amounted to a total of GH¢2.1 billion. Interest payment in 2016 (GHC10.5 billion) would be five times what was allocated to these six key ministries combined. In 2015 the GH¢9.6 billion allocated to interest payment on the debt stock was about 3.4 times the entire allocations to the six key ministries listed above. So it gets worse by the year – as interest payments go up, the space for development shrinks. –

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