https://i1.wp.com/mynewsgh.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/John-Dramani-Mahama-1.jpg?fit=618%2C412&ssl=1
John Dramani Mahama

Journalists will be safe under the next NDC government – John Mahama assures

by

Former President John Dramani Mahama has marked the 2019 International Anti-corruption Day (which is today December 9, 2019) with an assurance that journalists will be safe thus none will be killed, live in fear or flee the country because of their investigative reporting on corruption.

“We shall protect the rights of our people to expose corruption and undertake to investigate credible allegations that come to our attention.

No journalist will be killed, live in fear or flee the country because of their investigative reporting,” a press statement to mark the day read in part.

In the press statement signed on his behalf by his special aide, Joyce Mogtari, the former President Mahama further noted that the fight against corruption requires genuine and collective efforts, especially from political leadership, and the NDC has demonstrated that in the past when it governed and will continue the fight in future when it forms the government.

“Fighting corruption requires genuine and collective efforts, particularly from political leaders. As we have demonstrated in the past, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will make no excuses in this fight,” the statement added.

The former President also lamented the recent surveys that show that the country is not making progress in the fight against corruption.

“Sadly, recent surveys are confirming that we are losing the fight against corruption. This is a worry to majority of Ghanaians,” he pointed out.

Full statement below

https://i1.wp.com/mynewsgh.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Mahama.jpg?w=676&ssl=1

Source:MyNewsGh.com/Stephen Zoure/2019

Many Ghanaians have become vegetarians due to Akufo Addo’s bad governance – YamminFormer Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister and member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) communications team, Joseph Yammin has said many Ghanaians, for their inability to afford meat in recent times have been forced to become vegetarians, MyNewsGh.com reports. Though he didn’t give the source of the information to substantiate his claim, he blamed the phenomenon on what he said is the mismanagement of the economy by the Akufo-Addo administration. He was contributing to discussions on the fallouts of the recent Afrobarometre report on Kumasi-based Angel FM monitored by MyNewsGh.com on Friday when he made the claim. “The ‘mayanka’ (abattoir) used to slaughter 300 cattle a day, but today it is unable to slaughter even 150; people cannot buy meat to eat; Ghanaians are now turning vegetarians under Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, not because they want to be vegetarians, but it’s because they cannot afford to buy meat”, he told sit in host, Nana Kwame Agyei Bohyen on Angel In The Morning. A new afrobarometre…MyNewsGH, 05 Dec 2019‘Jailing Corrupt’ Mahama appointees will stop the corruption tag- Manasseh to Akufo-AddoFreelance investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni has suggested that the inability of President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s government to punish corrupt appointees under John Mahama’s presidency is why the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has is tagging him as corrupt. The award-winning journalist asserts that if President Akufo-Addo had punished thirty percent of “the high level corruption of the Mahama era, the NDC wouldn’t be accusing it of doing little to fight corruption.” On Tuesday September 10, 2019 at a Press Conference, the NDC through its General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the NDC accused the President of allowing corruption to fester under his government instead of fighting it. The NDC added that the President was also engaged in clearing officials of his involved in corruption instead of punishing them. Earlier, the President had stated strongly that he was very much committed to the fight against corruption and was doing his best possible to fight it. But Manasseh Azure Awuni has…MyNewsGH, 11 Sep 2019