{"id":258213,"date":"2016-10-14T13:25:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T13:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=258213"},"modified":"2016-10-14T13:25:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T13:25:53","slug":"mahamas-sharing-of-outboard-motors-abuse-of-incumbency-gii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/10\/mahamas-sharing-of-outboard-motors-abuse-of-incumbency-gii\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama’s sharing of outboard motors abuse of incumbency – GII"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), has accused President John Mahama of abusing incumbency and indulging in electoral corruption, for distributing outboard motors to Fisher folks during his campaign tour of the Western Region in August.<\/p>\n

According to GII, this abuse of incumbency became apparent when the Spokesperson of the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) campaign, Joyce Bawa Bogtari, revealed to the media that the distribution of the outboard motors and other items formed part of the state\u2019s interventions.<\/p>\n

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Speaking to Citi News<\/strong>\u2019 Sixtus Dong Ullo on the sidelines of a presentation, the spokesperson for the GII\u2019s Coalition Against Corruption, Edem Senanu, indicated that, there was nothing wrong with distributing the motors but \u201cthe problem arose as soon as a spokesperson came and said this is part of our national state interventions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cImmediately that statement was made, it suggested that public resources were utilized for the purpose of purchasing outboard motors, pans etc to give to political party members, during the campaign; and that is where the abuse of incumbency comes in.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Once a public officer is elected or appointed, they are not to use the resources of state either for their own personal benefit or the benefit of association or groups to which they belong.\u201d<\/p>\n

The distribution of the outboard motors occurred at\u00a0separate durbars with the fishermen in Axim and Sekondi, and whiles suggestions have been made that President Mahama couldn’t control NDC supporters at the scene,\u00a0Mr. Senanu insisted that the President was clearly on party business.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said he was going on a campaign tour which meant he was taking time off his official duty to do a political party activity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Distribution of outboard motors worse than vote buying<\/strong><\/p>\n

The group has already publicly chided President Mahama for\u00a0the distribution describing it as\u00a0worse than\u00a0vote buying.\u00a0The Executive Director of GII,\u00a0Linda Ofori Kwafo, said it was “akin to\u00a0abuse of office.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pro-opposition group, \u2018The Truth Forum\u2019, also cautioned President John Mahama to desist from what it called the distribution of freebies to buy votes ahead of the December 7 elections.<\/p>\n

According to one of the leaders of the group, Yaw Buaben Asamoah, President Mahama’s gift giving on the campaign trail in the name of public policy initiatives is not only a waste of the country’s resources but demeaning to the country’s democracy.<\/p>\n

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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