Election 2024: Some people in the NPP are calling for change – Ablakwa

Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Member of Parliament for North Tongu, has said there are people in the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) who are praying for a change of government.

He claims those persons have been overwhelmed by the corruption in this administration expressing their eagerness for the NPP to be kicked out of office.

Mr. Ablakwa has explained that if the corruption and corruption-related issues occurring in this administration had occurred in an NDC administration, there would have been a revolt.

Speaking with Captain Smart on Onua TV’s Maakye Monday, August 26, 2024, he indicated that Dr. Bawumia’s vision to upgrade Ghana means an era of more corrupt deals and State looting which Ghanaians are not ready for, but rather a reset to propel the nation to higher heights.

“There are certain things AKufo-Addo has been allowed to do and if it were Mahama, there would have been a coup in Ghana. The Afrobarometer shows that 8 out of 10 Ghanaians say the country is going the wrong way. We want people with credibility to come together and help. Some people in the NPP themselves are saying they want this nation to be rescued,” he stated.

Speaking about corruption and retrieving monies paid into undeserved coffers, he said the Mahama administration will embark on an operation ‘retrieve all loot’ in his first 120 days in office.

Ablakwa disclosed that John Mahama left US$270 million in the Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund (GIIF), US$500 million in the Sinking Fund as well as a US$300 million in the Stabilisation Fund.

These monies, which he challenged the public to crosscheck from the Bank of Ghana and the Finance Ministry to peruse for their curiosity, were all wasted by the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government.

The Ranking Member on Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee is confident Mahama’s operation retrieve all loot will help uncover where most of the monies wasted to corruption and other dubious deals went to.

He added that, the incumbent administration also made a lot of gains from the Covid-19 pandemic, aside from borrowing over GHC600billion which is over 300% of the total debt left by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah in 1957 to John Mahama in 2017, totaling a GHC122billion.

Ghana’s debt stock now stands at GHC750billion.

As part of Mahama’s first 120 days social contract with Ghanaians, he says he will institute inquiries and/or forensic audits into the matters of public interest including the collapse of Indigenous Ghanaian banks and financial institutions at a supposed cost GHC25 billion, illegal printing of money, the US$58 million National Cathedral scandal, illegal and inflated single-sourced contracts.

Also amongst the issues he will be instituting inquiries and/or forensic audits into includes the COVID-19 expenditure scandal, PDS, Agyapa, SML, Ambulance spare parts deal, 13th African Games, Sky Train, Pwalugu Dam, Maths Sets, Galamsey Fraud, missing excavators and tricycles, Sputnik-V, BOST scandal, and others.

Source:onuaonline.com