National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has vowed that come what may, the NDC will ensure every corrupt appointee under the current New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration, faces the full rigours of the law when they (NDC) regain power.
To him, it will be better if appointees of the Akufo Addo-Bawumia government have a mindset of rendering proper accountability for their stewardship in light of reported cases of looting some of them have been accused of.
“. . . . to save Ghana, we should not allow anybody to engage in wrongdoing in looting the country and getting away with it. And so if that’s what they’re scared of, they better prepare. They still have time to vomit all the loot or hold onto it and face the consequences,” Mr Asiedu Nketiah said.
While addressing NDC faithfuls at a recent strategic meeting in the United States of America, he charged members of the opposition party to embrace hardwork and not be too giddy by recent poll results, since the NDC is “dealing with a wounded tiger”,
“The election is not going to be easy even though the poll suggests landslide victory for both our presidential candidates and our parliamentary candidates. We are dealing with a wounded tiger and so we should not be complacent until we are declared victorious, ‘’he added.
General Mosquito, as the NDC General Secretary is affectionately called, asserted that the incumbent government has not been accountable enough since the party assumed office in January 2017, hence the reason why a future Mahama-led NDC government is going to come hard at corrupt officials.
He stated, “Nana Akufo-Addo and his government can be likened to a person who’s riding a tiger. If you get down you will be devoured, and if you stay at the back of the tiger, you die of hunger. And so they are not worried about leaving power, but the real problem is what happens after they have left power.”
“There was the story of an old man who had so much money in his safe, and when he was sick, he kept the key to the safe in his pocket and put his hand on it; that he would never release the key. But he died, and they took the key and opened all his treasures.
‘’So, those who can communicate to the NPP people, let them know that it is our duty to save this country, and one way of saving the country, is to take over power and hold each and every duty bearer accountable for their leadership. And so we are prepared to do everything that it takes to kick them out and save this country’’, he stressed.
Source: peacefmonline.com
