Kofi Bentil, a Vice President of the policy think tank, IMANI Africa, appears to have taken a swipe at President over his promise to terminate the revenue assurance contract between the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited (SML).
In a post shared on X on May 15, 2025, Kofi Bentil, while reacting to a video of Mahama making the promise to terminate the contract, quoted a popular aphorism, attributed to French writer Jean-Baptiste, which implied that nothing will change. "The more things change, the more they remain the same...
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In the said video, Mahama is shown in the run-up to the 2024 election vowing to terminate the contract, which he described as a ploy to steal from the country by the previous New Patriotic Party (NPP) government. "One would have thought that the corruption cases were enough, but it has numbed Ghanaians.
