Akufo-Addo Is Rolling Back Ghana’s Democratic Gains …Mahama

Former President John Mahama has chided his successor, President Akufo-Addo for becoming a serious danger to Ghana’s democracy.

While speaking at the 4th summit of the NDC Professionals Forum in Kumasi on Friday, April 29, 2022, Mr. Mahama named the scandal-prone Akufo-Addo and accused him of rolling back Ghana’s democratic gains.

“There is a deliberate effort by Nana Akufo-Addo to roll back the democratic regime we have gained as a country,” he opined.

The public perception of the Akufo Addo government is that of a quintessential den of corruption, violence and nepotism.

Akufo Addo reportedly started his assault by removing the then-Electoral Commissioner, Charlotte Osei and replacing her with another, Jean Adukwei Mensah, who is fingered as a fanatic of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP). She went on to conduct the most corrupt presidential election in 2020 where there were up to five different results for the election.

Akufo Addo would later go on to forcibly retire the then-Auditor-General Yaw Domelevo who was on the trail of his best friend and then-Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo for dubiously paying more than US$ 1 million to British company Kroll and Associates for no work done.

The NPP government of Akufo-Addo has the worst human rights record and has been the most murderous towards journalists, including the cold-blooded murder of Ahmed Hussein Suale who was investigating corruption at the Jubilee House.

The government has also revived a 1960 law to shut down free speech in the guise of publishing “false news” and has used it to brutally clamp down on dissenters and tag them as potential coup plotters.

While squashing dissent, the government has been accused of packing the top echelon of the Judiciary with judges noted for their extreme bias and partisan positions,

And recently, his party’s MPs vandalized the constitution by approving the e-levy tax even without forming a quorum in parliament.

According to Mr. Mahama, the “behaviour of this current administration, mimics the behaviour of brutal dictatorship”.