Former President John Dramani Mahama has indicated that he was voted out by Ghanaians because like Kwame Nkrumah, he focused on infrastructural development rather than provide the citizenry will “milk”.
The former President said this when he was addressing teeming youth and members of the opposition, National Democratic Congress at Somanya in the Eastern region during a Unity Walk.
The former President said “Kwame Nkrumah said something while he was in exile that he didn’t know that it was milk and sardine Ghanaians wanted and that he wouldn’t have built Akosombo Dam. He would have distributed sardines and milk free to Ghanaians, and they say history repeats itself”.
John Mahama added that “When you’re busy working, constructing roads, building hospitals, opening water systems, extending electricity, people say we don’t eat roads, we don’t eat hospitals, we don’t eat schools and they make all kinds of promises and so Ghanaians vote them back into power”.
Talking about the current hikes in fuel prices, the former President said “In December last year petrol was selling GHC 14.00 and we were told that it was too expensive and that 50% of the petrol was made up of taxes alone and that when they win and come into office, they’ll remove the taxes so that petrol will sell at GHC 7.00. Today, petrol is selling at GHC22.00 per gallon, I’m even more concerned about LPG because LPG was about GHC 40.00 before December 7. Today, LPG is more than GHC 80.00 users and what it means is that those who cannot afford LPG will go back to using charcoal”.
Source:a1radioonline.com/Ghana
