{"id":223839,"date":"2016-06-20T12:29:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T12:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=223839"},"modified":"2016-06-20T12:29:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T12:29:46","slug":"can-mahama-be-impeached-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/06\/can-mahama-be-impeached-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Mahama be impeached? [Article]"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Mahama is never going to be impeached, maybe that can happen in the next world.<\/p>\n

Many Ghanaians believe that Ghana’s young democracy will be tested in Parliament but that won’t be the case because some Ghanaians think otherwise since the governing party; the National Democratic Congress has the majority of MPs in Parliament.<\/p>\n

Unless a miracle<\/strong><\/p>\n

I tell my folks that unless a miracle takes place in this country\u00a0there will be no impeachment and this is the \u00a0truth.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong, the analogy of this piece is not to tell whether I am in support of an impeachment of Ghana’s President neither am l pleading or asking for a total revolution for him to be impeached but to generally let you know the kind of people we are, our nature, our thinking, our culture, judgment, our compassion and sympathy.” We talk too much but show no attitude towards general issues of interest.<\/p>\n

My focus is on the “Ford Gift” brouhaha or should l call it saga which seems to have had a media frenzy with almost every media house discussing it.<\/p>\n

This is not to judge how right or wrong the supposed “gift” might be or to show what ought to have been done and what needs to be done on this saga.<\/p>\n

Neither does this writing want to point a wrong or right finger at the government or opposition for their roles of what needs and need not to be done or our political parties, civil groups and students unions as well.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Kanazoe’s gift to his friend, Mahama<\/strong><\/p>\n

President John Mahama reportedly accepted a 2010 Ford Expedition from a Burkinabe contractor as a gift in 2012.<\/p>\n

The contractor, Djibril Kanazoe\u00a0is said to have benefited from some lucrative projects from government after the gift including building a wall around Ghana’s embassy in Ouagadougou at a cost of over half a million dollars.<\/p>\n

Following the\u00a0expos\u00e9, the minority MPs in Parliament threatened to impeach<\/strong><\/a><\/span> the President.<\/p>\n

Should Mahama have accepted gift or not?<\/strong><\/p>\n

All what happens to this country must be a lesson to our future generation.\u00a0The actions and inactions of current circumstances must guide the steps of the young folks who wish to change the line of development and transformation of our country to a different level of development and not just of tenure and slow pace in progressing a sector.<\/span><\/p>\n

My concern is not whether President Mahama should have received the gift or whether he needed not to but rather on how we generally judge, criticize, praise and carry issues of this nature in this country.<\/p>\n

\"The
The writer; Richmond Asare Tinkaro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is total division in the line of discussion on this very brouhaha, acolytes of the government, apparatchiks of President Mahama and Members of the National Democratic Congress are on one side defending the actions of the President and trying everything possible to let Ghanaians know that the “Ford Gift ” was not a bribe and that President Kufour received same while he was in office which we know the two are incomparable.<\/p>\n

The opposition parties as well view this saga as a “bribe “and a corrupt practice by the President.<\/p>\n

To them they believe that the actions of the President-the circumstances to which the contractor gave out the “Ford” as a gift to the President, the timing and all to them shows a level of interest from both sides.<\/p>\n

They believe that the Contractor was given the contract because of his relationships with the President and automatically leading to the “giving of the Ford as a Gift.”<\/p>\n

They believed that even though President might not have asked for it but so far as he accepted it and even called the contractor to thank him ostensively shows a “level of a corrupt practice or bribe.”<\/p>\n

Political opportunism<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am of the view that both sides should take away their political opportunism from this particular issue.<\/p>\n

Both the NPP and NDC must criticize and analyse the issue base on what will be of utmost interest and benefit to this nation as we move on rather than to be grooved with partisanship to defend this action or act of gift in its rightful or wrongful way as it might be .<\/p>\n

The opposition must criticize the issues based on what they know would guide the actions of Public Officers as we move into a deeper and learned democracy, for the future.<\/p>\n

Enough of the politics from both sides. Enough of the politicking.\u00a0Don’t defend it sheerly because you are an NDC or an acolyte of the President and don’t attack and make mockery of this brouhaha because you think it would be a political benefit to you.
\n–<\/p>\n

By: Richmond Asare Tinkaro
\nFormer NUGS President, University of Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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