Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress NDC, John Mahama has pledged to retrieve all ill-gained wealth from appointees of the current regime if he wins the 2024 general election.
John Mahama in a live broadcast themed ‘Mahama Conversations’ yesterday, June 9, 2024, stated he will partner with state institutions anti-corruption to retrieve monies and properties acquired through corrupt means.
The NDC flagbearer said the socio-economic difficulties in the country required prudent thinking and action but the NPP opted for opulence. He said there should not be a need for the President to hire a private jet when the Presidential Jet is working.
“Notwithstanding all these socio-economic difficulties, the young people continue to observe the opulence of the [New Patriotic Party] administration’s officials and their families chartering private jets at $20,000 per hour for trips that our own Falcon Executive Jet could have done.
“And as the Minister for Defence explained, it [the Falcon Executive Jet] had no shower for a presidential bath. Ghana’s youth have further experienced how a minister could stash millions of dollars in her home and only God knows the full extent of Ghanaian taxpayers’ money that has been stashed away by many others.”
John Mahama said if he is elected, he will work to ensure effective collaboration between Ghana’s anti-corruption institutions and their foreign counterparts to retrieve all those wasted monies.
“I say to the good people of Ghana that working with Ghanaians and international anti-corruption partners, we shall do all that is humanly possible to retrieve such wrongly acquired wealth.”