Former President John Dramani Mahama has raised concerns over the government’s penchant for blaming the previous government for its woes.
According to him, the government’s decision to constantly blame the previous government for its challenges is tantamount to “abdicating the responsibility of running the country.
“It is normal in your first year to blame everything that has gone wrong on your predecessor, maybe in your second year, you can continue playing the blame game but after your third year, if the only thing in your mind is Mahama, then you are abdicating the responsibility of running this country, the president can keep blaming everything on me till 2020, the citizenry will decide.
“If in your third year and going into your fourth year, you are blaming everything on the previous government then you need to start preparing your handing-over notes because it then means that you are not able to take responsibility,” former President Mahama stressed.
Citing examples to support his claim, the former President indicated that he took responsibility for the energy crisis that started under the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government when his government came into power.
“When I came into office, there was an energy crisis, it was not my fault that there was an energy crisis, it was a legacy challenge, I went to Parliament and stated that this is the crisis we have, I am the Commander in Chief, I accepted the responsibility,” the former President’s assertion comes days after the government blamed the previous government for the importation of arms into the country.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) in a recent statement raised an alarm that the Akufo-Addo-led administration had authorised the importation of the weapons at a time the country was grappling with the threat of terrorism.
But the government insisted that it could confirm that the Mahama-led administration under the NDC rather issued a permit for the importation of the arms before leaving office in January 2017.
Aside from the allegation, both President Nana Akufo-Addo and the Vice President Dr Mahammudu Bawumia had accused the previous government of running the country down. -citinewsroom.com
