Ntim Fordjour criticises Mahama's 100 days in office

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin South in the Central Region, Rev. Dr John Ntim Fordjour, has described the 100 days in office of President John Dramani Mahama as not only abysmal, but also intimidation against the NPP members and former government appointees.

Speaking to the media after attending the homecoming event by the people of Assin Odumase in the Assin South District last Saturday, Rev. Dr Ntim Fordjour alleged that President Mahama used his 100 days in office to persecute former NPP appointees and innocent politicians.

He stressed that President Mahama used masked armed gangs to raid the homes of former government appointees, putting fear in their wives and children and forcibly taking away their properties with impunity.

Rev. Dr Ntim Fordjour, who recently obtained his doctorate degree from the University of Ghana, cited some of the victims of people whose houses were raided as himself, the former Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori Atta; the immediate past Governor of the Bank of Ghana, among others.

He said within the 100 days of President Mahama’s administration, intermittent power outages (dumsor) have been the order of the day.

Concerns

Rev. Dr Ntim Fordjour noted with concern that President Mahama, who promised during his campaign last year that he would create jobs for Ghanaians when voted into power, had rather sacked more than 23,000 public workers within his first 100 days in office.

He alleged that more narcotic drugs had been seized in Ghana within 100 days of President Mahama in office unlike the NPP regime when drug barons were afraid to ply their trade in Ghana.

Rev. Dr Ntim Fordjour alleged that on January 18,2025, an aircraft with suspected narcotic drugs landed at the Kotoka International Airport and stayed there for five days.

According to Rev. Dr Ntim Fordjour, when he, as the Ranking Member for Defence and Interior, held a press conference on behalf of the Minority in Parliament, he became the target of the NDC government, who harassed, intimidated him and raided his residence, without the government giving concrete reason why the aircraft was in the country for five days and the content of the plane.

He alleged that Hopeson Adorye had confirmed that the suspicious plane landed at the Kotoka International Airport and a private car was used to cart the goods it carried to an unknown destination.

He added that if the truth of Hopeson Adorye’s allegation was established, then the content of the suspicious aircraft would be known.