Nana Kofi Senya (middle) with colleague Assembly Members addresses the press
Some elected Assembly Members in the Ashanti region have described former President John Dramani Mahama’s promise of paying them monthly salaries, should he win the 2020 election, as “a mere propaganda” intended to lure them into voting for him.
The Assembly Members contend that, having failed to implement a similar policy after promising same 2012, they see no reason why the NDC flagbearer will seek to re-introduce a promise he failed to meet.
Addressing the media at a press conference, Dean of the Conference of Presiding Members-Ashanti, Nana Kofi Senya, expressed shock at the sudden promise of “such juicy package”, with less than four months into the general election.
According to the Assembly Members, Mr Mahama, as President, refused to follow the laid down rules in working with Assembly Members and Unit Committee members, wondering how a person who disrespected them can now be promising them heaven.
“We wish to appeal to the former president John Dramani Mahama to leave Assembly Members alone in his diabolical scheme of things, unguarded political utterances and activities,” they stated.
Splinter group
Meanwhile, the Assembly Members have taken a swipe at another group known as Ghana Association of Assembly Members (GAAM), “whose membership is made up of known NDC members carefully selected to spearhead John Mahama’s campaign”.
According to the group, “using a so-called splinter group, christened Ghana Association of Assembly Members…in fashioning out sinister motives and articulating the hidden agenda for his opposition party NDC, all with a view to disorganizing and eventually consigning the National Association of Local Authorities of Ghana (NALAG)”, will not work.
“We are hopeful that NALAG, once strengthened and well-resourced, is capable of managing its own affairs without any political interference or inducements of some sort,” they added.
Source: Daily Statesman
