NDC General Secretary Rain Words on Nana Addo Dankwah-Akufo Addo; Reveals Him as 'Corrupt'

The General Secretary of the biggest opposition party in Ghana, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has examined the President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo Addo as ‘corrupt’.

John Asiedu Nketiah revealed the words after the President denied claims of shielding corrupt administrators to rule the country at the 2019 annual general conference of the Ghana Bar Association on Monday, September 9, 2019. Mr. Nketiah spoke that the president must accept the blame of being the 'most corrupt and nepotistic' Leader in Ghana’s history and enquire the reason for the accusation.

Nana Addo addressing Ghana’s Legislation defined his responsibility as president whenever there was a wrongdoing among his officials and the proper measures he put in place to make sure the Law takes its course on such.

“It is not my job to clear or convict any person accused of wrongdoing, or of engaging in acts of corruption. My job is to act on allegations of corruption by referring to the issue or issues to the proper investigative agencies for the relevant enquiry and necessary action. That is exactly what has been done since I assumed the mantle of leadership on 7th January 2017”.

He denied his involvement in clearing accused persons and challenged whether the Executive has in any way pressurized the Legal agencies on matters of investigations and incarceration.

“If an appointee is cleared of any wrongdoing, the evidence adduced and recommendations made by these agencies, after the investigations are concluded, are what clear the accused persons, not myself. None of these agencies has ever indicated any pressure from the Executive over their investigations," he added.

In a press statement yesterday, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah conveyed a message of rebel hitting on the President and identifying him as heading ‘the most corrupt government in the history of Ghana”. He uplifted his governance as 'a path of delusion and denial lowering the Bar to fight against corruption at the GBA Conference".

“Rather than confront this resounding verdict of well-meaning Ghanaians, he opted for the path of delusion and denial. In summary, President Akufo-Addo lowered the bar for the fight against corruption at the Bar Conference”

"We wish to call on the President to jolt himself back to reality and face the truth, which is that the Ghanaian public has lost all faith in him to do anything about the mountain of corruption under which his government has been buried”

"The multiplicity of polls and surveys carried out by credible national and international organizations show deteriorating confidence in his ability to win the fight against corruption”

"Ghanaians are unified in the belief that our country has been overrun by corruption with the president sitting at the apex of a cabal representing this. The clergy, the media, civil society and other interest groups including conscientious elders of the NPP itself have all been unanimous in their condemnation of the level of corruption under Akufo-Addo."