Open SOS call to President Mahama for justice

That is why I am openly appealing and reaching out to my former Roommate President John Dramani Mahama to ensure that justice is done to the previous NMC members, and more so, suppliers under the Free SHS programme, whose supplies have been in arrears since September 2024, knowing that it is the tradition of our country to meet outstanding payments from the Fourth Quarter in the First Quarter of the ensuing year, and especially because all funds sitting in the accounts of public agencies between January and March 2025 were swept back into the Consolidated Fund at the end of March as it is usual.

The last time the Minister of Finance, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, appeared in Parliament, he said, among other things, that there was no arrears and boasted that so much has been saved towards the settlement of the first batch of payments under the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP), for which he was highly praised and applauded for the sound management of the economy.

The irony though is that when public, political and government officials get the opportunity to speak publicly, they openly proffer sentimental nationalistic slogans and regurgitate the false narration that the country belongs to all of us and no one would be excluded from the sharing of the national cake or resources and that government business is not based on nepotism nor partisanship but on competence, quality of work and value for money.