A stalwart of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Nana Kwame Jantuah, has criticised President Akufo-Addo for failing to live up to expectation despite the resources he had at his disposal.
He has questioned the President’s assertion of “being too old to steal Ghanaians’ money” when he has presided over an administration full of corrupt deeds.
According to him, members of the Akufo-Addo administration indulged in series of state capture without the President intervening to protect those assets for the state.
This, he says, has left the nation in a state of despondency and a quagmire of hopelessness, considering the fact that Ghanaians had to endure hardship in the midst of abundance.
The private legal practitioner says the silence of the President over the grabbing of state lands exhibits his complicity in those corrupt acts.
Speaking on the NewDay on TV3 Friday, January 03, 2025, the CPP leading member listed a number of statements the President made prior to ascending the high office, and reminded him to tell Ghanaians how he lived up to those statements in his final State of the Nation Address (SoNA).
“I’m too old to steal your money, I already have my money. State capture. Look at the lands around, look at the things that went on and President Akufo-Addo was quiet about it. That quietness, what is it? You leave your people to do what they want to do by state capture, grabbing lands of government and selling it for themselves,” he stated.
He went on to say that Ghanaians are hungry despite the President saying ‘yɛte sika so nanso ɛkɔm de yɛn’ to wit we are sitting on money yet we are hungry.
Kwame Jantuah explained that the results of the just-ended elections is an indication that Ghanaians are still hungry despite the President saying the nation is sitting on money.
“‘Yɛte sika so nanso ɛkɔm de yɛn’, it’s true. We are sitting on money, are we not still hungry? By the election that was held a few weeks ago, what does that tell us? You said we are sitting on money yet we didn’t see the money and we are still hungry,” he stated.
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