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Bawumia has embarrassed Akufo Addo with $2.5million GhanaPost GPS - Mahama

By Clement Edward Kumsah
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Ex-President John Mahama says Dr Bawumia has embarrassed President Nana Akufo-Addo in relation to the $2.5million GhanaPost GPS App created by Vokacom.

According to the former President, the contract initiated by the Vice President was unnecessary because the application already existed on all smartphones.

Addressing supporters of NDC after a Unity Walk in Cape coast today, he said much as he wanted to restrain himself from commenting on national issues to give the NPP government more time to settle, he felt the Akufo-Addo government was gamble away its goodwill period by committing avoidable mistakes.

“I’ll refrain from commenting on national issues because I think that when a new government comes into power, you give it a honeymoon so that it can settle in but unfortunately it looks like NPP is wasting away its honeymoon period with the mistakes that it is doing.

“Otherwise, how can you launch a whopping GPS system that is freely available on our mobile phones and say it is the best national addressing system?” Mr Mahama wondered, adding: “It’s such a pity.”

“Why would you embarrass the president so much?” he quizzed.

John Mahama called on President Akufo-Addo as a matter necessity hold somebody accountable for giving state funds away for something that already existed free of charge.

“… And when you talk about accountability, this is where the president should show that he is serious about corruption. Somebody must account for GHC15 million given away free of charge.”

Juxtaposing the digital addressing application issue with the bus branding saga that happened during his tenure of office, he said, “When I was in office, there was a bus branding incident, GHC3.6 million, a minister of state resigned because of GHC3.6 million. When you come into office and you want to cover up, you can cover up. When things happen you just refuse to investigate them.

“The toughness of the fight against corruption is that you are able to take action against your own people and that is what we did when we were in office. Here the NPP seems unable to take, the president seems unable to take self-action in anything,” Mahama noted.

 

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