Former president John Dramani Mahama has accused President Nana Addo-Addo of not doing enough to deter the activities of vigilante groups linked to the New Patriotic Party (NPP), such as Delta Force and Invisible Forces.
Mahama also chastised Akufo-Addo for what he called attacks on members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) by soldiers and armed groups looking to retrieve missing government vehicles.
The former president who was speaking at a meeting with appointees who served under his administration, expressed disappointment at  what he said was Akufo-Addo's failure to crack the whip on members of these groups, despite what he called a smooth transition of power to the NPP.
“If you cannot look for vehicles in a more civilized manner than having troops going into people’s houses, breaking down their gates and say you are looking for vehicles, you cannot go to DVLA and look through the database and find out what government vehicles are available then what kind of efficiency do we have in government? Just this morning I heard Agyekum’s House was raided… And they[NPP] will always come back and apologize because those are not vehicles that belong to the state.
“…Government is saying they cannot look for an efficient manner of looking for vehicles than forming storm troops to raid people’s house, and I think that it is wrong. I am going to have the opportunity to tell Nana Addo that they should stop this… This cannot continue, this thuggery is not good for our country, and the point is we thought we had a good transition …This [incident] serves as examples that make it difficult in future when there is another transition for another government to restrain party supporters. All the thuggery removing people from office, beating people is unfortunate. We must say it in the strongest terms and if the heed it fine, if they don’t, it is a learning process for our whole country,†he said.
Mahama also seized the opportunity to reject assertions that he lost the 2016 election because his appointees were young.
He said there was no correlation between age and performance, adding that he himself became deputy minister under former President Rawlings at the age of 39.