Deputy New Patriotic Party (NPP) General Secretary, Nana Obiri Boahen, says former President John Dramani Mahama appears not to be abreast with current news in the country.

Lawyer Obiri Boahene, who described the ex-president's challenge to President Nana Addo to ‘come for a rematch in 2020’ as "laughable", said his (Mahama's) recent call on President Nana Addo to arrest the owner of the now-defunct DKM Microfinance Limited and pay its aggrieved customers is “unfortunate” and smacks of someone who is "ignorant".

Former President John Mahama, over the weekend, urged the Akufo-Addo government to fulfill its campaign promise by arresting the owner of DKM Microfinance and pay all its customers since that message aided their victory in 2016.

According to Mr. Mahama, the NPP, in the run-up to the 2016 elections, accused him and his wife of being the owners of the collapsed microfinance firm and promised to retrieve for the clients, all their locked-up investments.

With the NPP now being in power, Mr. Mahama said the Akufo-Addo government should have no difficulty fulfilling that promise to the customers of the defunct DKM.

The government, he said, must ensure the owner of the company is arrested and all customers settled appropriately.

“When we were in office, the NPP lied that DKM belonged to me and my wife. Today, you are in power, you, who DKM belongs to, you promised that you will collect the people’s money for them when you come into power; please collect their DKM money and give it back to them,” he said while speaking at Wamfie in the Dormaa East Constituency of the Brong Ahafo Region on Saturday.

Responding to Mr Mahama, NPP’s Obiri Boahene opined that the former president appears quite ignorant about what is happening on the ground and seems to have also lost touch with reality.

“We have appointed a liquidator to investigate the case to resolve it amicably. The liquidator is working and he [Mahama] knows. So how do you blame the president and the NPP?....infact, government under the leadership of President Nana Akufo-Addo, has fulfilled its promise to victims of the Ponzi Scheme....98 per cent of deposits ranging between GH¢10 and GH¢10,000 have been cleared. Beyond that, between GH¢10,000 and GH¢50,000, about 90 per cent of funds of depositors of DKM have also been cleared...He (Mahama) is exhibiting his ignorance, someone should tell him,” he told Mac-Jerry Osei Agyeman.

Source: peacefmonline.com