Deputy Director of Operations at the Presidency, Mustapha Gbande has said the National Democratic Congress (NDC) inherited a defective leadership coupled with corruption and corruption related activities.
He noted that President Mahama is committed to bridging the leadership gap and fighting corruption.
“The foundation we have is deficit of leadership and credibility, criminal activities and corruption. That is what we met and that is what we want to clean up,” he said on Hot Issues on TV3, Sundy, April 20, 2025.
The Deputy NDC General Secretary emphasised that since President Mahama assumed office, the security force has demonstrated its commitment to fighting crimes such as money laundering and cocaine activities which hitherto he claimed was not the case under the previous government.
Mr. Gbande noted that these crimes were secretly ongoing under the previous Akufo-Addo government without the citizenry witnessing any action by government to combat such crimes.
“100 days into office, today you are seeing crimes that you never saw in the last 8 years. You won’t even get the opportunity to hear of those crimes. So you have a combating security force that is fighting crime in this country. From political incentivized crimes, money laundering, cocaine activities, cyber security, all of these are being clamped on.
“These are things you would not have heard of them under President Akufo-Addo, they were happening but you won’t hear of them. But today, we are fighting these things,” he asserted.
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