{"id":175624,"date":"2015-12-19T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=175624"},"modified":"2015-12-19T17:31:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T17:31:37","slug":"bus-rebranding-its-unfair-to-blame-mahama-lydia-forson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/12\/bus-rebranding-its-unfair-to-blame-mahama-lydia-forson\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus rebranding: It’s unfair to blame Mahama – Lydia Forson"},"content":{"rendered":"
Actress Lydia Forson has unusually jumped to the defence of\u00a0President John Dramani Mahama, saying he should not be blamed for the use of GHC 3.6 million \u00a0of Ghana’s oil revenue, to re-brand 116 Metro Mas Transit buses.<\/p>\n
Government\u2019s decision to spend a whopping GHC 3.6 million on re-branding<\/a><\/strong><\/span> the\u00a0buses, has angered many Ghanaians, with the majority questioning\u00a0how that outrageous expenditure could be approved under the watch of the President.<\/p>\n A detailed pro-forma invoice<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>for the re-branding of the buses, has revealed that stickers on each bus cost Ghc11, 000.<\/p>\n The pro-forma invoice dated 17th July 2015, and signed by the Accounts Officer of Smarttys Management and Productions and copied to the Ministry of Transport, put the total cost of branding for each bus at Ghc30,420.00.<\/p>\n Smarttys Management and Productions is owned by Selassie Ibrahim, an actress cum entrepreneur and TV personality.<\/p>\n But Lydia Forson, who has in recent times criticized strongly the performance of the President wrote on\u00a0her blog that\u00a0it is unfair to blame the President for the scandal since he has “bigger decisions to make… than decide what goes on government vehicles.”<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”HznG4mSCvQMkCCEKlh1P5rlYqifToqHP”]Below is her full post\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n I really don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair to blame the president for this whole metro mass bus branding fiasco.<\/p>\n The man has bigger decisions to make , I would hope, than decide what goes on government vehicles.<\/p>\n However , he\u2019s an easy target, why? Because it\u2019s his face on the ballot paper. Not the minister, or government officials.<\/p>\n But we do expect that having voted him into power, he would be able to hire people capable of handling their jobs well, as they are a reflection of him.<\/p>\n