A former presidential staffer and former local government coordinator, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, says the asset declaration rule is a waste of time.
Speaking on Newsfile on JoyNews on Saturday, May 10, he called for the law to be either scrapped or reformed entirely. "My view on asset declaration has always been that we should stop wasting our time discussing it," the spokesperson for Dr Mahamudu Bawumia's campaign said. "It should just be scrapped, or we should rather spend the time advocating for the reform, because it's a complete waste of time." Mr Aboagye revealed that he has declared his assets twice.
But he said the process is flawed and meaningless. "Because as I sit here, I've declared my assets twice, and so what?
What I put in there, nobody knows," he said. "The real issue is, what do we intend to achieve with asset declaration?" He challenged those praising President Mahama for publishing his asset declaration. "What President John Mahama has done is nothing new," he said.
