, GMA disappointed at President’s IEA performance

President John Mahama’s delivery at the Institute of Economic Affairs’ (IEA) Evening Encounter series last Thursday has been described as disastrous by policy Think Tank, IMANI Ghana.

Speaking on Citi FM, an Accra based private radio station, the Executive Director of IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe, pointed out that there was nothing in the President’s speech to show the intentions to decentralize the management of the country’s resources.

He emphasized that it was all about most of what he wanted to do and like the normal politician would say, “I will do this and I will do that and you don’t hear of any intentions to decentralize the management of our resources”. He continued that on education, all what the President Mahama said had already said by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. “I noticed that the President talked about education and I found it completely incoherent about the education policy. I think he has run and run in circles and actually agreed with the position of the NPP. I think clearly that was disastrous,” he explained.

As if that was not enough, the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has also expressed its disappointment at President Mahama’s performance and policies laid out to Ghanaians at the same platform.

According to the General Secretary of the Association, Dr. Frank Sireboe, they were partly disappointed because according to the President he had not seen the petition they sent him in person, adding that the fact that the petition was sent to him personally made it difficult for them to accept his claim that he had not seen it.

Commenting further, Dr. Sireboe said though President Mahama gave sweet words to attract doctors to deprived areas, he failed to tell “us what he is doing now and in the future. So he addressed the future and didn’t addressed what is happening now.”