Mensah Thompson of ASEPA writes....

Oh yes you read the heading right, this attempt to amend the entrenched provision of Article 55[3] exposes the character of President Akufo Addo in a very serious way.

Perhaps if we still had any doubt that the first gentleman of the land is a reckless decision maker, then the push for this amendment and its accompanying Referendum should be enough testament to draw the curtain on that subject.

Infact our President lacks foresight, and he is not able to see beyond his present condition, our President lacks the capacity to forsee the consequences of his decisions in the long term and that has manifested in the quality of free SHS that we have now, the quality of dams built and the decision not to pay contractors which has eventually led to the collapse of some banks and the further deterioration our road networks which were under construction.

This is a President who could NOT realise that failing to pay contractors would raise the NPL levels in the banking sector and put the banks under serious liquidity distress, this is a President who went ahead to collapse these same banks without realising that it is his failure to pay contractors that put the banks in that situation in the first place.

So you see, in terms of long term decision making, the records that favor the President and that is why cannot let him go through with this one.

For an experienced Politician Iike the President to push for an amendment of 55[3] to allow Political Parties to extend their thuggery to destabilise local level governance is a serious indictment on the decision making prowess of the President.

Unless of course his handlers want to admit that the President is just being mischievous with this one.

Mensah Thompson Executive Director
ASEPA
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