Taxi driver's 'Mahama' inscription attracts police scrutiny
A taxi driver who has the inscription ‘Oh Why John Mahama’ on his taxi has told Accra-based Citi FM that the police confronted him over it.
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“The Police have arrested me before and they always asked me why I have this behind my car and I told them it is a question and not an insult and they allowed me to go,” he said Thursday.
The driver who, according to Citi FM, asked to remain anonymous, said the inscription was his assessment of Mahama’s performance as President.
He said: “When Mahama came to power, he said he will reduce fuel prices for us but he hasn’t done that. I am a full NDC member and I have always voted for the NDC. We thought he was a young man who could help the youth but he lied to us. Fuel prices keep going up. It is down on the world market but he keeps increasing it.
“When he increased it for the third time, I put this inscription on the back of my tax cab,” he said.
The driver said he had been insulted several times over the picture:
“People insult me when they see the inscription on my car but I don’t care. Even if the President calls me to ask why I wrote that behind my car, I will give him all the reasons,” he stressed.
He, however, pointed out that he did not have any problem with Mahama.
“The people around him are the ones creating the problems so ‘Oh why John Mahama’ is a wakeup call for him,”he added.