{"id":214488,"date":"2016-05-16T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T06:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=214488"},"modified":"2016-05-16T06:00:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T06:00:33","slug":"shut-up-if-you-cant-prove-mahama-is-corrupt-amaliba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/05\/shut-up-if-you-cant-prove-mahama-is-corrupt-amaliba\/","title":{"rendered":"Shut up if you can\u2019t prove Mahama is corrupt \u2013 Amaliba"},"content":{"rendered":"

A member of the National Democratic Congress legal team, Abraham Amaliba is asking all those criticizing \u00a0President John Mahama’s claims that he has never taken a bribe<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0 to provide evidence to the contrary or \u201cshut up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amaliba was responding to critics of President Mahama\u2019s recent comment on corruption.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”EmZxWFcqwWk0UE8ij4z59kqADt0CXP58″]\u201cThe president\u2019s statement was categorical and if anybody has a contrary view then that person must provide evidence of him being corrupted before or he having taken bribe before. If you don\u2019t have that evidence then I\u2019m afraid, you have to shut up.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Mahama while in the UK for an anti-corruption summit told the BBC that he has never taken bribe before.<\/p>\n

The President also said he has fought corruption better than any other regime in Ghana.<\/p>\n

But some Ghanaians have ridiculed the President\u2019s comment saying his fight against corruption is a mirage since most scandals that have hit his government have been swept under the carpet.<\/p>\n

Mr. Amaliba while speaking on Citi FM<\/strong>\u2019s News analysis programme, The Big Issue<\/strong>, insisted that government has never relented in its fight against corruption.<\/p>\n

He added that just accusing someone as being corrupt is not being fair to the person sicne\u00a0\u201cyou must provide some prima facie case and that is to say, there must be some iota of truth in your claim before the state agencies can take it further.”<\/p>\n

“You cannot just look at somebody\u2019s face and his lifestyle and say he is corrupt; you may have to provide some basic evidence for that to be a basis for which such a person should be investigated,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Mahama has nothing to show for fight against corruption\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Convention Peoples Party (CPP) has indicated that President John Mahama has nothing to show<\/strong><\/a><\/span> for his fight against corruption in the Country.<\/p>\n

According its Youth Organiser, Ernesto Yeboah, the President has only paid lip service on issues of graft in Ghana in his tenure.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow did he deal with clear cases of corruption, clear cases where the court had ordered that he should go for our monies? What is happening to ISOFOTON for instance? So the president would do himself a lot of good if he desists from making such comments when it comes to the issue of corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n

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By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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