The running mate of the NDC flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has chided the Akufo-Addo-led government for breeding an environment that fosters greed and gross impunity.
Addressing party folks at her outdooring as running mate, Professor Naana Jane noted that for the past seven years, Ghanaians have not experienced a sound environment that respects the rule of law.
Speaking at the University of Professional Studies auditorium in Accra, Prof. Opoku-Agyemang said, “Never have we experienced the levels of greed, unbridled arrogance, unrestrained impunity, sheer dishonesty, barefaced hypocrisy and incompassion displayed by this incumbent government over the past seven years and more.”
Prof. Opoku-Agyemang acknowledged the challenging road ahead but drew strength from Ghana’s history of resilience and perseverance in difficult times.
She pledged that an NDC government would hold accountable those responsible for the “plunder of the state,” a promise she said was based on the desires of citizens from all walks of life.
The former education minister also criticized the Akufo-Addo administration for promoting what she called “ethnocentric elitism masquerading as intellectualism,” nepotism disguised as competence, and crony capitalism presented as development.
She attributed these factors to Ghana’s current state of near insolvency, with its natural resources and environment suffering.
“The most significant achievement of these things has been a country in near insolvency, its natural resources such as water and land and environment in rebellion, a people harassed and intimidated into numbness and as some say cynically, bribed into silence,” Opoku-Agyemang added.