Mr. Frank Asiedu Bekoe, the Suhum member of parliament, has cautioned Ghanaians against believing anything President John Dramani Mahama says because he is the “old John we knew in his first term.”
He said we should control our expectations because the president, who gave his first State of the Nation Address on Thursday, February 27, 2028, has nothing to offer Ghanaians.
The lawmaker claimed that the president’s SONA was devoid of any hope and was filled with laments.
‘’President John Mahama has nothing new to offer Ghanaians. He is the same old Mahama we knew, the incompetent, indecisive person. Ghanaians have even started regretting voting for him. I thought he was going to present to us the true state of the nation, but he engaged in lamentations and complaints and shifting of blames.”
Speaking on Rainbow Radio, he claimed that even in the absence of a world crisis, the president’s first term was marked by incompetence, poor economic management, and a 2017 reserve of just $8.2 billion.
”But with Covid affecting every economy in the world, including the UK, US, and others, the NPP managed the economy better; even after Covid, we implemented free SHS and increased worker salaries by 30%. So President Mahama was being economical with the truth. Another lie he told was that he fixed dumsor in January 2016, but by that time, we had a dumsor timetable in August, so why did he tell such a lie? If we have children listening, this is not an appropriate example for them to follow. Without President Mahama, I would not have known that August comes before January.”
